Philovitist

So...again. Evolutionary psychology. Supposing my paper will be dense in evolutionary biological material, is it best to avoid it?

You'll do better filing it under cognitive psychology, and yes, it's a fine topic.

While I'm not an EE expert, as an aspiring psychologist and English speaker, your question is unclear.

Prima facie, you seem to seek to explain to what extent individuals have executive control over their eating disorder symptoms, but then it gets confusing.

Maybe you seek to investigate "What psychological abnormalities are present in an individual with an eating disorder, and how do these affect the individual's environment (especially social relationships)." That sounds about right, more or less.

You definitely want to narrow this down to a specific eating disorder, and then to a specific aspect of their environment/specific relationship (ex, with a father).

In general, though, the topic is really unoriginal.


As for the rest, I dunno.

In fact, are any topics of evolutionary psychology valid? Since evolutionary theory is necessarily a biological theory, wouldn't the rule against interdisciplinarity prohibit this?

What do you guys think of an examination of the effectiveness of social and ecological hypotheses explaining the evolution of the human brain?

I read that Individual research is important for a biological essay. I'm also wondering if evolutionary cognitive neuroscience is too close to psychology. However, my essay will be dense on evolutionary content. And of course — originality and specificity.