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Evolutionary psychology can ill afford adaptionist and mentalist credulity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Nicholas S. Thompson
Nicholas S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610
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Abstract

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The idea that dreams function as fright-simulations rests on the adaptionist notion that anything that has form has function, and psychological argument relies on the mentalist assumption that dream reports are accurate reports of experienced events. Neither assumption seems adequately supported by the evidence presented.

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Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 1013 - 1014
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press