Yabba-Dabba-Doo! A Response To Unfair Accusations  

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Goldberg, Jeffrey ; Markoczy, Livia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Relations vol. 57 no. 8 (Aug. 2004), page 1037–1046.
Topik: evolutionary psychology; misrepresentations; hypothesis
Fulltext: 1037.pdf (109.83KB)

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Sewell discusses three non-academic books (Bernhard & Glantz, 1992; Lawrence & Nohria, 2002; Nicholson, 2000). We are familiar with the books by Nicholson (2000) and Bernhard and Glantz (1992), but we do not know Lawrence and Nohria’s (2002) contribution, which we ignore. Sewell points out with great enthusiasm that these authors commit what we have called the ‘happiness fallacy’ (Markóczy & Goldberg, 1998: §2.10). This is the (fallacious) view that much of our current difficulties are because our current physical and social environment differs from the environment for which we were naturally evolved. The environments are, of course, radically different. But there is no reason to believe that humans were any less unhappy back then than they are now. Neither Nicholson nor Bernhard and Glantz explicitly state the fallacy. Indeed they deny committing it (personal communication), but we agree with Sewell that they do, indeed, commit the fallacy and that it underlies (and undermines) some of their claims. Indeed, we have said this a number of times. Most recently one of us (Markóczy, 2003) discussed this specifically about Nicholson’s (2000) book.

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