Why imaginary worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds E Dubourg, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e276, 2022 | 86 | 2022 |
Why and how did narrative fictions evolve? Fictions as entertainment technologies E Dubourg, N Baumard Frontiers in Psychology 13, 786770, 2022 | 52 | 2022 |
The evolution of music: one trait, many ultimate-level explanations E Dubourg, JB André, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44, e98, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
L'origine des fictions: L'hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales E Dubourg, JB André, N Baumard Fabula-LhT: littérature, histoire, théorie, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, C de Dampierre, A Mogoutov, N Baumard Scientific Reports 13 (1), 8657, 2023 | 24* | 2023 |
A step-by-step method for cultural annotation by LLMs E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, N Baumard Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 7, 1365508, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |
The psychological origins of science fiction E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, N Baumard Poetics 102, 101862, 2024 | 3 | 2024 |
Do Fictions Impact People's Beliefs? A Critical View E Dubourg, N Baumard The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief, 141-158, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution E Dubourg, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e309, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
DEEP: A model of gaming preferences informedby the hierarchical nature of goal-oriented cognition E Dubourg, V Chambon Entertainment Computing, 100930, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, T Beuchot, C Bonard, P Boyer, M Clasen, ... | 1 | 2024 |
Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation E Dubourg, A Mogoutov, N Baumard Proceedings http://ceur-ws. org ISSN 1613, 0073, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions E Dubourg, L Fitouchi, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e256, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
Insight-seeking is consistent across domains and distinct from other forms of curiosity M Mercier, E Dubourg, H Mercier Personality and Individual Differences 237, 113051, 2025 | | 2025 |
Did Teddy Bears Culturally Evolve to Be Cuter? A Preregistered Replication Q Borredon, Z Bulamac, C Crozat, E Dayre, E Fuchs, M Hallo, L Kerzreho, ... Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2), 114-127, 2025 | | 2025 |
Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends) E Dubourg, V Chambon, N Baumard The Behavioral and brain sciences 48, e31, 2025 | | 2025 |
Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status. E Dubourg, N Baumard Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2024 | | 2024 |
Hypermodern preferences and the cultural evolution of Indian films. A diachronic and synchronic study. G Fiorio, E Dubourg, N Baumard, V Thouzeau OSF, 2022 | | 2022 |
Les mondes imaginaires dans les fictions E Dubourg Acta fabula 22 (2), 2021 | | 2021 |