Digital technologies and evolutionary mismatch: Harming, but also healing mental health.

. Although aspects of CMC may indeed represent such evolutionary mismatches, this relationship may, however, be complicated by (a) a failure to contextualize the negative mental health effects of CMC against broader societal factors (e.g., family nuclearization) which are plausible preexisting evolutionary mismatches themselves; and (b) ignoring the positive effects of CMC in mitigating these mismatches. In this article, we propose a perspective that addresses these limitations, suggesting that this serves as an antidote to the overpathologization of novel behaviors facilitated by CMC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).