Why do so many leftists and liberals have a distaste or aversion for subjects like evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics, game theory, and social choice theory? Sorry, I'm not trying to sound trollish or anything. I view myself as a leftist and I have been for years, and in my view, a lot of ideas and findings in these subjects actually support liberal and progressive values, but my viewpoint seems to be an extremely small minority. Many people working in game theory or evolutionary psychology seem to be centrists or right-wingers, and for some reason, leftist, liberal, and progressive thinkers don't seem to take much interest in these topics, and in some cases, they're even hostile.

For example, the most famous game of all, The Prisoner's Dilemma seems to offer a very progressive upshot. In my view, provides another piece of evidence suggesting that "free markets" and "rational self interest", can, in certain circumstance, produce results that are provably sub-optimal and inefficient. A lot of behavioral economics helps expose the techniques that corporations and other powerful groups can use complicated and subtle psychological techniques to manipulate your opinions and desires, without you even being aware that it's happening. Concepts like Durverger's law and Hotelling's theorem lend support to the idea that our electoral system is a two-party, centrist duopoly that tends to exclude socialist and progressive values, by the very nature of our elections.