In their article Psychology: a Giant with Feet of Clay, Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro aim to clean up the confusing and inconsistent conceptual landscape in current psychology. They find that evolutionary psychology with its dialectical focus on nature and nurture could be the unifying meta-theory that contemporary psychology is depending on in order to compete with harder sciences, such as biology and physiology. The aim of developing a unified conceptual consensus in psychology is flattering. However, the view depends on a worldview that one can reach a psychological science with objective properties through universal concepts that are non-effected by cognitive factors. My point of view is that psychological concepts carry a great deal of implicit theoretical baggage because they come with rich connotations, acquired through everyday usage. My view has got a methodological point that leads to considerations concerning the question: how psychologists are to study concepts in order to understand them? To grasp the meaning of a given concept in its context means to understand not only its literal meaning but also how it can be applied to the world and what is done by it. All these dimensions of the meaning of a concept are deeply rooted in the respective diachronic and synchronic contexts, and that is why a psychologist should be radically prepared to change her or his expectations considering the meaning of any concept under study.

在他们的文章心理学：粘土脚的巨人、Zagaria、Andò 和 Zennaro 旨在清理当前心理学中令人困惑和不一致的概念景观。他们发现，辩证关注先天和后天的进化心理学可能是当代心理学赖以与更难的科学（如生物学和生理学）竞争的统一元理论。在心理学中建立统一的概念共识的目的是讨人喜欢的。然而，这种观点依赖于一种世界观，即通过不受认知因素影响的普遍概念，可以达到具有客观属性的心理科学。我的观点是，心理学概念带有大量隐含的理论包袱，因为它们具有丰富的内涵，是通过日常使用获得的。我的观点有一个方法论点，它导致了对以下问题的考虑：心理学家如何研究概念以理解它们？在上下文中掌握给定概念的含义意味着不仅要了解其字面意义，还要了解它如何应用于世界以及它所做的事情。一个概念意义的所有这些维度都深深植根于各自的历时和共时背景中，这就是为什么心理学家应该从根本上准备好考虑任何正在研究的概念的意义来改变她或他的期望。心理学家如何研究概念以理解它们？在上下文中掌握给定概念的含义意味着不仅要了解其字面意义，还要了解它如何应用于世界以及它所做的事情。一个概念意义的所有这些维度都深深植根于各自的历时和共时背景中，这就是为什么心理学家应该从根本上准备好考虑任何正在研究的概念的意义来改变她或他的期望。心理学家如何研究概念以理解它们？在上下文中掌握给定概念的含义意味着不仅要了解其字面意义，还要了解它如何应用于世界以及它所做的事情。一个概念意义的所有这些维度都深深植根于各自的历时和共时背景中，这就是为什么心理学家应该从根本上准备好考虑任何正在研究的概念的意义来改变她或他的期望。