Evolutionary psychologists tend to study adaptations to give meaning to specific behaviors found in humans today.

In terms of measuring the body's response to stress, psychologists tend to use Han Selye's general adaptation syndrome.

In academic psychology, black psychologists tend to work in administration, counselling, and 'race'-related research, areas which traditionally lack status.

Alternatively, feminist psychologists, like conventional psychologists, tend to study old and young female subjects in relation to events in the reproductive age-range (Ussher 1989).

But psychology's methodological gender biases are embedded in a much wider set of gender relations, which feminist psychologists tend to underestimate.

Even when gender differences require Byzantine elaborations of conventional cognitive theory to explain them, feminist psychologists tend to ignore the possibility of a specifically female cognitive structure.

Critics allege that evolutionary psychologists tend to assume that their own current cultural context represents a universal human nature.

Evolutionary psychologists, Gould suggests, tend to take the "inevitability" view, while a more discerning interpretation of biology (his) takes the "capacity" view.

Cognitive social psychologists tend to view categorization in terms of individual functioning.

Traditionally, evolutionary psychologists tended to focus their research and theorizing primarily on adults, especially on behaviors related to socializing and mating.