Measuring the evolutionarily important goals of situations: Situational affordances for adaptive problems

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-15

  Brown, Nicolas A ^a   Neel, Rebecca ^b   Sherman, Ryne A ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental Motives Framework; Scale validation; Situations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946011468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474704915593662     Document Type: Article

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