The Evolutionary Psychological Imagination: Why You Can’t Get a Date on a Saturday Night and Why Most Suicide Bombers Are Muslim
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I propose a new concept of the evolutionary psychological imagination, t o replace C. Wright Mills’ half-century-old notion of the sociological imagination, as a way to link personal experiences with wider social phenomena. To illustrate, I discuss how one’s difficulty in dating might be connected to the current world war, and how the evolutionary psychological imagination sometimes allows us t o see things that few others do.
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