Not just a hijack: Imaginary worlds can enhance individual and group-level fitness. (18th November 2022)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Not just a hijack: Imaginary worlds can enhance individual and group-level fitness. (18th November 2022)
- Main Title:
- Not just a hijack: Imaginary worlds can enhance individual and group-level fitness
- Authors:
- Wilbanks, Danica
Moon, Jordan W.
Stewart, Brent
Gray, Kurt
Varnum, Michael E. W. - Abstract:
- Abstract: Why has fiction been so successful over time? We make the case that fiction may have properties that enhance both individual and group-level fitness by (a) allowing risk-free simulation of important scenarios, (b) effectively transmitting solutions to common problems, and (c) enhancing group cohesion through shared consumption of fictive worlds.
- Is Part Of:
- Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 45(2022)
- Journal:
- Behavioral and brain sciences
- Issue:
- Volume 45(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 45, Issue 2022 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 2022
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0045-2022-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-18
- Subjects:
- Psychophysiology -- Periodicals
Psychology -- Periodicals
Human behavior -- Periodicals
Animal behavior -- Periodicals
Brain -- Periodicals
616.89142 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.journals.cup.org/jid%5FBBS ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0140525X21002144 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0140-525X
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