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Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
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    Chapter 3 The Evolution of Imagination and Fiction Through Generativity and Narrative
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    Chapter 4 Imagination, Symbolic Cognition, and Human Evolution: The Early Arts Facilitated Group Survival
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    Chapter 5 Mimesis and Myth: Evolutionary Roots of Psychological Self-Understanding
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    Chapter 6 Imagining the Gods
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    Chapter 7 Key Stimuli and Power Objects: Aesthetics and Our Innate Sensibilities
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    Chapter 8 The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future
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    Chapter 9 Music and the Evolution of Embodied Cognition
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    Chapter 10 The Influence of Image Salience on the Artistic Renditions of Cave Lions in the Early Upper Paleolithic
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    Chapter 11 Evolutionary Constraints on Creativity in the Visual and Plastic Arts
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    Chapter 12 “Unbreakable, Incorruptible, Unyielding”: Doom as an Agency Simulator
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    Chapter 13 Cliodynamics and Dramatic Performances
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    Chapter 14 Descent with Imagination: Oral Traditions as Evolutionary Lineages
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    Chapter 15 I’m with You Till the End of the Line: The Romanticization of Male Bonds
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    Chapter 16 Literary Representations of Parental Investment: Fitness Quandaries and Strategic Decisions
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    Chapter 17 Why the World Is a Better Place with Stephen King in It: An Evolutionary Perspective
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    Chapter 18 Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad’s Confrontation with Amoral Nature
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Title
Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-46190-4
ISBNs
978-3-03-046189-8, 978-3-03-046190-4
Editors

Joseph Carroll, Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson

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Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 16%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Professor 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 7 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 6 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 12%
Psychology 3 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Linguistics 1 4%
Other 4 16%
Unknown 7 28%