Evolutionary Constructivist Psychology

Abstract

In this article, I outline the benefits of knowledge integration as they pertain to Being Human: Human Being. Manifesto for a New Psychology (Cromwell, 2010). My goal is to provide an outline of additional tools beyond the material appearing in the book to individuals who use constructivism in order to understand human nature. I briefly assess arguments for relativism and identify that the subjective filters through which we perceive the world are relative to the environments in which humans evolved. Understanding evolution may provide a solution to Cromwell's thesis that there is no science or theory that can adequately explain human functioning.

Acknowledgments

I appreciatively acknowledge feedback from the guest editor Spencer A. McWilliams and reviews by Jonathan D. Raskin and an anonymous reviewer.

Notes

1. Likewise, there is no such trait that arises in an environmental or contextual void.