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Keith Oatley, Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

Note The First. Philip Gerrans, ‘Pathologies of Hyperfamiliarity in Dreams, Delusions and Deja Vu’, Frontiers in Psychology, 5 (2014), 1-10.

What Literature Knows About Your Brain. literary criticism listens to cognitive science and talks back too. Menu. Why Aren’t We Flooded? Krystian Barzykowski, Rémi Rade, Agnieszka Niedzwienska, and Lia Kvavilashvili, ‘Why Are We Not Flooded by

the other a collaboration between narratology and psychology that pushes the field in interesting directions.

What Literature Knows About Your Brain. literary criticism listens to cognitive science and talks back too. Menu. Predictive Coding and Conceptual Thought. Daniel Williams, ‘Predictive Coding and Thought’, Synthese (2018),. Andy Clark, ‘Beyond

ontology, theology, and psychology, in Knapp’s terminology. Interspersed with the case studies and readings of individual authors and their works are more general chapters that address attitudes towards the immaterial ... And why are thinking and

OK, I’m back. September: do your worst! One of my favourite things at the evolutionary end of Psychology is when the researchers look at some component of our mental lives,

psychology and philosophy wondering about what it might mean to say we can think ‘as as we’.

Ed Yong’s article in The Atlantic highlights the problem that research in psychology, and in other fields as well, is predominantly practised on people from WEIRD societies.

It’s about the terms used in psychology, and the care required to understand the question before heading for an answer.

This is the second of two posts gathering a few thoughts about my experience of trying to put together Proper Psychology Experiments in collaboration with brilliant scientist colleagues.

Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

well. The book in question is Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Kevin M. Carlsmith, Timothy D. Wilson, and Daniel T. Gilbert, ‘The Paradoxical Consequences of Revenge’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (2008), 1316-24.

The guest was Steven Pinker (Psychology, Harvard), author of several important books on language and thought, and also of The Better Angels of our Nature, for which I have a soft

persuasiveness of the portraits of psychology we get there.

Good title: it made me think of a popular psychology version of Ovid’s great epic poem the Metamorphoses.

Experimental social psychology aims to produce controlled, accurate accounts of interpersonal dynamics of all kinds; theatre and literary criticism aim, at least in one tradition, to provide accurate accounts of how

for instance, when we read the newspaper, watch TV, or participate in a psychology experiment on argument evaluation’.

However, it brings the psychology of restraint back into focus, in a play where Macbeth, having fallen once, is capable of further, escalating violence.