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An Introduction to the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society.

An Introduction to the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society. Getting Practical With Evolution Nick Armenti. What AEPS Wants to Do. AEPS = dedicated to bringing to the public, its policy makers and practitioners evolutionarily informed solutions (EI) to problems in living

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An Introduction to the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society.

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  1. An Introduction to the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society. Getting Practical With Evolution Nick Armenti

  2. What AEPS Wants to Do • AEPS = dedicated to bringing to the public, its policy makers and practitioners evolutionarily informed solutions (EI) to problems in living • AEPS promotes communicating proximate applications to problems in living founded on ultimate causal explanations • Illuminate the evolutionary roots that support the solutions generated by evolutionary scientists (ESs) • Building working relationships between the public sector and ESs

  3. AEPS and the Three Stage Scientific Method • As a coalition AEPS advocates that evolutionary science follow theoretical and experimental paths that result in three stages of outcome: • 1. understandingof ultimate and proximate causes for behavioral events that lead to • 2. predictions about the frequency, intensity and duration of those events and then • 3. applied methods for controlling the frequency, intensity and duration of those events.

  4. AEPS Encourages Applying Evolution • Most ESs address understanding and prediction of cause and effect • They do not often address the third applied aspect of control. • AEPS = dedicated to encouraging ESs to go beyond understanding and prediction and to move to the applied activity of recommending procedures to control those predictable events

  5. The Third Step on the Scientific Path • English scientist/philosopher Francis Bacon considered a prime mover in the development of the scientific method. • Among a handful of thinkers who advanced the assertion that “knowledge and human power are synonymous” or essentially that “knowledge is power”. • He didn’t stop there. He went on to say that the purpose of the scientific method in generating new knowledge was to improve the quality of the human condition.

  6. Most ESs Travel an Incomplete Scientific Path • Most contemporary ESs see their role solely as to “create new knowledge”. • AEPS contends - the path most ESs travel is an incomplete one. • Their path stops at understanding and prediction • Stops short of the next stage on the empirical path, the generation of practical solutions to problems in living.

  7. The Augmentation of Evolutionary Theory and Findings • AEPS position is not intended to discourage or disparage the generation of new knowledge by ESs • Rather – AEPS advocates that, when appropriate, ESs venture to recommend to others EI practical applications that emerge from their theories and research findings • An augmentation to their efforts to generate new knowledge

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