Against Integration or Against Using Evolutionary Theory to Homogenize Psychology?: A Comment on Derksen

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 565-570

  Goertzen, Jason R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

evolutionary psychology; fragmentation; integration; pluralism; unification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748799973     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354306064287     Document Type: Article

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