On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Dennis Goff went:
I have encountered this bias in a few of my students too. I now state clearly on the first day of my Developmental Psychology class that we include an evolutionary view in our exploration of human development. That disclaimer leads to a one or two drops before the next class.
This sort of thing continues to amaze me because I've never knowingly encountered it. I haven't taught much in the past few years, but the total number of undergraduates I taught as a graduate student at Rutgers must be in the upper hundreds. (Three courses: Physio Psych, Drugs & Human Behavior, and a Conditioning & Learning lab.) I always took it as a given that I could refer offhandedly to evolutionary explanations of behavior; it never would have occurred to me to wonder whether my more religious students didn't believe in them.
In hindsight, I realize that there were probably some who didn't. But they never dropped any hints.
--David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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