Abstract
This paper reviews two salient meta-theoretical trends in psychology and cognitive science in these decades and discusses their relationship. The first trend can be called biologization, which emphasizes the idea that human minds are a product of biological evolution. The second trend represents a social or cultural scientific view that stresses that the operation and formation of the mature human mind are based on sociocultural contexts. These seemingly opposing trends are in fact complementary in terms of our understanding of human mind-mentalities, because the mind as a product of evolution has to be instantiated into culture-dependent mentalities in the process of development and expertise. A few implications of the complementarity for psycho- and sociolinguistic research are offered.
