Is Evolutionary Psychology Compatible With Cross-Cultural Psychology?

William Costello
11 min readApr 9, 2022

“Evolutionary psychology focuses on human universals whereas cultural psychology focuses on cultural differences. Thus, those two fields are incompatible with one another.”

Critically discuss this statement.

The tabula of human nature was never rasa, and it is now being read” (Hamilton, 1997, as cited in Buss, 2001).

This essay critically discusses the evolutionary psychology versus cultural psychology dichotomy, challenging the notion that they are…

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William Costello

Psychology PhD Student University of Texas at Austin. MSc Psychology, Culture and Evolution from Brunel University London 2020/21. Bylines: Areo and Quillette.