Edgar Dubourg is doing his PhD in cognitive science at the Département d’études cognitives of the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-PSL).

Edgar Dubourg is doing his PhD in cognitive science at the Département d’études cognitives of the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-PSL). He is interested in how cognitive adaptations and adaptive sources of variability impact both the universality and the variability of preferences for fictional stories.

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March 26, 2024

Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?

The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.