Socioecology and fiction.

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Nicholas Buttrick, Shigehiro Oishi

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Nicholas Buttrick: School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USAbuttrick@princeton.eduwww.nickbuttrick.com. ORCID
Shigehiro Oishi: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; soishi@virginia.edu; https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/oishi.

PMID: 36396399 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21002223

We argue that the generation and enjoyment of imaginary worlds do not necessarily rely on an evolved preference for exploration. Rather, we suggest that culture is shaped by socioecological facts on the ground, and we hypothesize about the role of residential mobility, specifically, as an important factor in the popularity of imagined spaces.

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