Despite all of your furious internal raging, escalators actually move faster with both sides standing rather than one slow and one fast lane: theconversation.com/growing-cities…

“To be forced out of a group on the grasslands was a death sentence. For this reason, our ancestors rapidly evolved a strong emotional reaction to the threat of being ostracized.”

Media people: Know any texts that deal in a systematic way with how different media can "scaffold" the human imagination? E.g., film captures part of the sensorium to generate vivid imaginings. Video games also allow for self-involving imaginings driven by conative states, etc.

The new issue of ESIC (4.1) has hit the streets, and as always, it's full of the good stuff! Symposium on the evolution of meaning, review essays on 4E cognition, screenwriting & evolution, morality & sociality, and a cornucopia of book reviews: jstor.org/stable/10.2661…

We are proud to announce the 29 accepted papers for the first Computational Humanities Research Workshop. It promises to be a diverse program with papers on history, cultural evolution, literary studies, linguistics, methods, a.o. Find papers here >> computational-humanities-research.org/papers/

We are delighted to announce the publication of Aigne, Volume 8, which, in 2019, we oracularly titled "Predicament and Potential". Through the diligent work of our fantastic editors and contributors, predicament was overcome. Access the full journal at aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/aign…

seems like the right time to take a step back from reality, e.g. by reading Stefan Veleski's paper in our new volume which examines how the aftermath of first contact scenarios is treated in science fiction novels. #aliens #literature #scifibooks aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/aign…

Some novels have stood the test of time, while others have been forgotten. Stefan Veleski tests the role of emotional valence in this 📰Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels 📎ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/long4…

Fantastic final panel on ‘Emotion and Sentiment in the Victorian Novel’. So fascinating to learn how agency interacted with sympathy in deprivations of fallen women, how pain could be resistance, and gain great insights into how sentiment can be analysed in big data. #CNCSPG2020

Our latest issue (4.2) is now out: jstor.org/stable/10.2661…. It's got original research articles on e.g. imagination, Dostoevsky, and creepy places; review essays on music, movies, and behavioral endocrinology; and a wealth of book reviews on subjects from modernism to menopause.

Great review of "Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age" in the latest issue of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Thank you Stefan Veleski! jstor.org/stable/10.2661…

Dear European directors, producers and distributors of animated films, the call for entries for the 2021 edition of the Flipbook Film Festival in Skopje is now open! filmfreeway.com/FlipbookFilmFe…

NEW PREPRINT: Are dad jokes funny, unfunny, or somehow both? And what, exactly, is their association with fathers? I try to answer both of those questions in this brand new paper (just recently accepted for publication in Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture!) psyarxiv.com/r9mhc/

"Sex killed the love song." dld.bz/fJnwh