Authors
Norman P Li, Mark van Vugt, Stephen M Colarelli
Publication date
2019/12
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Reports an error in" The evolutionary mismatch hypothesis: Implications for psychological science" by Norman P. Li, Mark van Vugt and Stephen M. Colarelli (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2018 [Feb], Vol 27 [1], 38-44). In the original article, a Funding section is being added on p. 43, and it will contain the following text:" This research was supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 grant."(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-05914-007). Human psychological mechanisms are adaptations that evolved to process environmental inputs, turning them into behavioral outputs that, on average, increase survival or reproductive prospects. Modern contexts, however, differ vastly from the environments that existed as human psychological mechanisms evolved. Many inputs now differ in quantity and intensity or no longer …