This completely revised second edition of the best-selling text presents an up-to-date,
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This paper provides an overview of outstanding major research goals for the field of
computational narrative understanding. Storytelling is an essential human practice, one that�…

Many assume that if citizens become more inclined to moralize the values of evidence-
based and logical thinking, political hostility and conspiracy theories would be less�…

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adolescent art, now older than 80 years old, seems like an archival treasure. James “Jimmy”�…

This paper argues that the allure of conspiracy theories lies in their evolutionary origins,
specifically in our capacity to communicate unrepresented threats. Drawing on threat�…

This paper is a conceptual exploration of whether terrorists' self-perception as (anti-) heroes,
playing characters drawn from their internalised narratives within a ludic framework, offers a�…

The decline in violence and growing awareness of human rights can be viewed as natural
experiments in history answering the question if humans are moral creatures. A dual�…

Many assume that if citizens were more inclined to moralize the values of evidence-based
and logical thinking, they would be less likely to share politically hostile, conspiratorial, and�…

The leering grin, slanted eyes, and buck teeth of the Japanese soldier in the US
government's World War II poster stokes fear of Asian Americans as “the enemy within.” The�…

This paper explores the implications of storytelling as an essential complimentary concept to
collective learning for labeling human emergence within the Big History thresholds�…