Vol 5.1, Spring 2021

Edited by

Joseph Carroll
University of Missouri, St. Louis

Mathias Clasen
Aarhus University

Emelie Jonsson
University of Gothenburg

A Note from the Editors on a New Feature in the Journal: Article Reviews

Articles

An Infectious Curiosity: Morbid Curiosity and Media Preferences during a Pandemic

Coltan Scrivner

Deny None of It: A Biocultural Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Gry Faurholt

An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs

Leonardo Ambasciano

Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough

Mads Larsen

Review Essays

Learning from Fiction?

Brian Boyd

Imagination in the Generation of Pictures and Interpersonal Scenarios

Keith Oatley

Book Reviews

Iris Berent. The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature

Reviewed by David Bjorklund

Frans B. M. de Waal. Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Reviewed by Sarah F. Brosnan

Charles Forceville. Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle

Reviewed by Torben K. Grodal

David Haig. From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life

Reviewed by Bernard Wood

Clare Hanson. Genetics and the Literary Imagination

Reviewed by Emelie Jonsson

Joseph Henrich. The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Reviewed by Alberto Acerbi

Joseph LeDoux. The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

Reviewed by Kenneth F. Schaffner

Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt, eds. Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

Reviewed by Thomas Morgan

Brian Rennie. An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior

Reviewed by Ann Taves

Article Reviews

Audiovisual Media

Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Cognitive Poetics

Michael A. Winkelman

Cultural Theory

Oleg Sobchuk

Imagination

Valerie van Mulukom

Language

Philip Lieberman

Law

Brett Rappaport

Life Narratives

Henry R. Cowan

Literature

Mads Larsen

Music

Nicholas Bannan

Paleoaesthetics

Dahlia W. Zaidel

Politics and Ideology

Lene Aarøe

Popular Culture

Catherine Salmon, Rebecca L. Burch

Religion

E. Thomas Lawson

Letters

Ruth Leys

Reply by Rainer Reisenzein