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There seems to be a tendency throughout the essays to take “evidence”—texts—at face value, and to resort to psychology when what is called for is theory.

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

Affect and Psychology in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Organizer: Scott C.

byM.C. Green and T.C. Brock, ‘The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79 (2000), 701-721.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon, Laura E. Schulz, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum, ‘Computational Principles Underlying Commonsense Psychology’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20 (2016), 589-604. ... Overall they wonder how the simplifications that result

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

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”

psychology we’ve inherited.

King Lear is not about the psychology of the aging brain, nor is it a true story, and yet it may have truth to tell about the psychology of the aging ... It doesn’t matter that the authors in question have almost never read the relevant psychology that

and the psychology of its relation to stuff.