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Publications

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Journal (peer-reviewed)

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., de Dampierre, C., Mogoutov, A., Baumard, N. (2023). Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories. Scientific Reports.

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Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2022). Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Target Article]

 

Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology. 

 

Dubourg, E., André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2021). L’origine des fictions : l’hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales [The Origin of Fiction: The Social Evolutionary Functions Hypothesis]. Fabula LHT.

 

Dubourg, E. (2020). La Reconnaissance intuitive des fictions [The intuitive recognition of fiction]. XXI-XX, Reconnaissance littéraire, Classique Garnier.

 

Dubourg, E. (2020). La Conquête de la fiction [The conquest of fiction]. Romanesques, Classique Garnier.

Commentary articles

Dubourg, E.*, Baumard, N. (2022). Imaginary Worlds through the Evolutionary Lens: Ultimate Functions, Proximate Mechanisms, Cultural Distribution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Response to commentaries]

 

Dubourg, E. †, Fitouchi, L. †, Baumard, N. (2022). When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on ‘Tradition and Invention: The Bifocal Stance Theory of Cultural Evolution’ by Jagiello et al.]

 

Dubourg, E.*, André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2021). The Evolution of Music: One Trait, Many Ultimate-Level Explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on ‘Origins of music in credible signaling’ by Mehr et al.]

 

Dubourg, E. (2021). Les mondes imaginaires dans les fictions [Imaginary worlds in fictions]. Acta Fabula. [Commentary on Constellation. Des mondes fictionnels dans l’imaginaire contemporain, by Anne Besson]

 

Dubourg, E. (2019). Axiologies du romanesque [Axiologies of the ‘romanesque’]. Acta Fabula. [Commentary on Les Valeurs dans le roman. Conditions d’une ‘poéthique’ romanesque]

Chapters

Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (In revision). Do fictions impact beliefs? A critical view. Handbook of Fiction and Belief.

In progress

Dubourg, E.†, Thouzeau, V. †, Beuchot, T., Boon-Falleur, M., Fiorio, G., Fitouchi, L., Mercier, M., Mercier, H., Sijilmassi, A., Zhong, Y., Baumard, N. (in prep.). The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories.

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