Perceived Control and Suicide from an Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective

Jiaqing O

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1058-1

Perceived Control and Suicide from an Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective

Jiaqing O

Department of Psychology

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Individuals are at a greater risk of killing themselves when they have developed a sense of powerlessness in relation to dealing with certain overwhelming problems in their lives. Such a drastic action, generally induced by one’s judgment that he/she is incapable of influencing an outcome of vital importance, is believed to have been adaptive in some situations for the majority of prehistory from an evolutionary perspective. However, as a result of considerable familial/social transformations in the modern environment in comparison to the ancestral context, attempts at self-murder are conceived to be much less likely to serve any useful evolutionary function in the present day.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science
Editors	Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford
Publisher	Springer Nature
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-16999-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-16999-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1058-1
Publication status	Published - 2018

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