Testing the unsolved problems hypothesis : the evolutionary life issues - mitigating function of nature exposure and its relationship with human well-being

• Main Authors: O, Jiaqing, Kavanagh, Phillip.S., Brüne, Martin, Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Contact with Nature; Evolutionary Mismatch
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143261
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Theories regarding the benefits of spending time in natural settings – a growingly crucial topic in a progressively urbanized world – have been developed with varying success, and none could comprehensively illuminate the evolutionary underpinnings of this phenomenon. This paper posits that the alle...