Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Standard social science model===
{{Main|Standard social science model}}
Evolutionary psychology has been entangled in the larger philosophical and social science controversies related to the debate on [[nature versus nurture]]. Evolutionary psychologists typically contrast evolutionary psychology with what they call the standard social science model (SSSM). They characterize the SSSM as the "[[blank slate]]", "[[Factual relativism|relativist]]", "[[Social constructionism|social constructionist]]", and "[[Cultural determinism|cultural determinist]]" perspective that they say dominated the [[social science]]s throughout the 20th century and assumed that the mind was shaped almost entirely by culture.<ref name=Pinker/>

Critics have argued that evolutionary psychologists created a [[False dilemma|false dichotomy]] between their own view and the [[caricature]] of the SSSM.<ref name=Richardson>{{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Robert C. |title=Evolutionary Psychology As Maladapted Psychology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KeqiKNFa3YgC&pg=PA176 |year=2007 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-262-18260-7 |page=176 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wallace |first=Brendan |title=Getting Darwin Wrong: Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work |year=2010 |publisher=Imprint Academic |location=Exeter |isbn=978-1-84540-207-5 |page=136}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Solomon |first1=Sheldon |editor1-first=Mark |editor1-last=Schaller |editor2-first=Christian S |editor2-last=Crandall |title=The Psychological Foundations of Culture |year=2004 |publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |location=Mahwah, N.J. |isbn=978-0-8058-3839-8 |page=17 |chapter=Human Awareness of Mortality and the Evolution of Culture |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TW4cVuyEnFAC&pg=PA17 |display-authors=etal}}</ref> Other critics regard the SSSM as a [[rhetorical device]] or a [[straw man]]<ref name=Levy>{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Neil |year=2004 |title=Evolutionary Psychology, Human Universals, and the Standard Social Science Model |journal=[[Biology and Philosophy]] |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=459–72 |doi=10.1023/B:BIPH.0000036111.64561.63 |citeseerx=10.1.1.90.9290 |s2cid=10126372 }}</ref><ref name=Richardson/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sampson |first1=Geoffrey |author-link1=Geoffrey Sampson |title=The "Language Instinct" Debate: Revised Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0zJNPuXTZMC&pg=PA134 |year=2009 |publisher=Continuum |location=London |isbn=978-0-8264-7384-4 |pages=134–45 }}</ref> and suggest that the scientists whom evolutionary psychologists associate with the SSSM did not believe that the mind was a blank state devoid of any natural predispositions.<ref name=Levy/>