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Reports an error in" Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface" by Roy F. Baumeister and EJ Masicampo (Psychological Review, 2010 [Jul], Vol 117 [3], 945-971). In the article, there was an error in the quotation on page 950. The sentence should have read: William James’s dictum that thinking is for doing (James, 1890, Vol. 2, p. 333) has reigned as a truism in psychology for more than a century.(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2010-14834-009.) Five empirically based critiques have undermined the standard assumption that conscious thought is primarily for input (obtaining information from the natural environment) or output (the direct control of action). Instead, we propose that conscious thought is for internal processing, to facilitate downstream interaction with the social and cultural environment …