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Evolutionary psychology is a weak social science, at best, that tries to boil down human behavior as if we were wolves, apes or birds as opposed to people with highly evolved brains capable of rational thought, emotion, and imagination.
So first and foremost be careful of getting Darwinian about pickup. Second, if you see something you want, go after it. You can call that chasing, but if you just sit around waiting for women to see your "immense value," you're going to lose out...a lot on women who just don't notice you.
in what way has evolutionary Psy been wrong?
yea people could override impulses from their subconscious, but the subconscious will always have an influence.
its our subconscious that makes us not want to close 1's and2's.
iagree with the second part. your social fitness isn't tht high where you could just sit idly by
It's been wrong since its inception. Evolutionary psychology is based on the idea that all behaviors are adaptations. Every single decision we make, according to EP, is rooted with a survival/replication motive. EP people push this false narrative with poorly designed if-then statements, and the research consists almost entirely of questionnaires. Surveys are the worst form of gathering data because people often give shitty answers, sometimes without even realizing it.
Evolution and adaptation are based on genetic drift, not conscious or unconscious decision making. Evolutionary psychology is based not on actual evolution (genetic drift) but rather the layman's idea of evolution (conscious or subconscious drive to something). There's a surprising amount of chance and randomness involved in actual adaptations and species evolution. PZ Myers explains it better than me:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012 ... y-premise/
In relation to pickup, evolutionary psychology is a confirmation bias to the big three of anti-game (that looks money and status rule over all, and in the darkness bind them (extra parenthetical because it's awesome to use a Lord of the Rings quote)). In the case of this thread, some posters are suggesting that some men are able to display such high levels of the big three that women approach them and want the benefit of the big three for themselves and their offspring. Actual neuroscience studying how people react to stimuli, however, notes that we generally don't pay much attention to random people in our field of vision as opposed to constantly analyzing everyone around us. You are a piece of the background until you say or do something that gets her attention, and that's almost always a direct communication. You walk up to her and say "hi" to bring yourself into her focus. That's why an early goal in an interaction is to immerse her in the conversation and form that social bubble around the two of you. With that immersion, now instead of her seeing everything as the background and hearing everything as just noise, it's you, her, and everything as as background scenery and noise.
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