honeyandvinegar

Of Course Eli Manning was a varsity quarterback as a freshman...typical.

Listen, as an evo psych person, I agree with the above, minus your typo in the last sentence. Overreaching statements are certainly a problem with the field. This is not necessarily evo psych in general however. Just as all biologists would be wary to say that any trait evolved for x, all psychologists would be wary to say that any behavior is caused by x. I would say rather than blaming the breadth of the field, I would blame the poor scientific practice behind specific studies.

However, I think it is necessary to incorporate biology into psychology, and evolution is a critical component of biology. These two fields must be intertwined. I would say that the field of psychology is designed to study behavior. Our techniques can and should be treated with skepticism outside of the discipline--this is just good scientific practice. But common ground needs to be found to advance the field of human behavior.

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1. Do you feel like you had to change yourself on a personal level to gain tenure? I'm a bit shocked at how many female professors seem to act "harder" to their students than male professors , and I often feel there is pressure to askew plans for family as it comes off as "unprofessional". How did you overcome this, especially within a male-dominated department?

2. There's quite a bit of controversy about how females are still extremely underrepresented within STEM faculty. I think this may be that when faculty positions were more available, less women were getting advanced degrees. Do you think this women being underrepresented is from job shortages or academic sexism?

Dr. Alex Hershaft did an AMA not long ago and compared the treatment of animals in farms to that of Jews in concentration camps as an "oppressive mindset" or "blind obedience".

How would you describe the attitudes of those working the farm? Psychologically, having worked with others, how do workers learn to accept that line of work, when it is difficult for many of us to watch it from the outside?