{"title":"Iris Berent","authors":"D. Bjorklund","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.212","url":null,"abstract":"Professional Experience 1995-1996 Post doctoral fellowship, Arizona State University 1997-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University. 2002-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University. 2005-2008 Member, Center for Complex systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. 2007-2008 Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University. 2008Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University. 2013 Faculty, the Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI. 2014 Associate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"73 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90791801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt, eds.","authors":"T. Morgan","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"101 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83538077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagination in the Generation of Pictures and Interpersonal Scenarios","authors":"K. Oatley","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.211","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Imagination, Jim Davies explains that most humans have mental imagery: an ability to make pictures in the mind without immediate perceptual input-as we do when we dream. Davies writes programs that enable computers to do something similar. Given a few words of description, a computer can generate pictures with several objects arranged in appropriate ways. Jonathan Gilmore’s Apt Imaginings is about whether engagement in works of fiction is continuous or discontinuous with how we deal with people and objects in everyday life. He argues for discontinuity. In constructing a critical framework within which to evaluate these two books, I use Kenneth Craik’s theory of mental models. Craik’s theory enables us to understand how we humans have evolved to imagine possible futures, to plan and to act in relation to them, and also to imagine what might be going on in other people’s minds.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"24 1","pages":"67 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86083182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deny None of It: A Biocultural Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale","authors":"Gry Faurholt","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has predominantly been read as a critique of patriarchy, a feminist dystopia. This article amends the feminist analysis by applying a biocultural approach to the novel, taking as its point of departure three problems that have troubled the feminist reading: Offred’s perceived passivity, the novel’s subtly critical stance towards its feminist characters, and the open ending. By taking into account the environmental context-a fertility crisis-the biocultural reading is able to analyze character in terms of survival and reproductive strategies. Recognizing that the characters are negotiating male and female mating strategies under extreme conditions leads to a deeper comprehension of the way the contrasting philosophies of radical feminism and sociobiology inform sexual politics in the Republic of Gilead.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"13 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87343719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frans B. M. de Waal","authors":"Sarah F. Brosnan","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"77 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83453205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}