Two Outsiders’ View on Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology: An Opportune Time for Adversarial Collaboration

We see Smith and Konik’s (2011a) recent special issue of Sex Roles as a tremendous opportunity for feminist psychologists and evolutionary psychologists to begin a program of adversarial collaboration.
In our view, adversarial collaboration offers a number of benefits that traditional scholarly exchanges do not. We optimistically
believe that adversarial collaboration could help to resolve important theoretical and empirical disputes, increase the focus
of research on actual areas of dispute (rather than perceived disagreements), and facilitate the integration of the heretofore
opposed perspectives. We conclude by examining a dispute in our own field, intergroup relations, which suggests that traditional
“reply-rejoinder” exchanges often fail to produce a constructive outcome.