Article reviews: Audiovisual media (fall 2022)

This review piece covers three recent articles: Dubourg, Edgar, and Nicolas Baumard. 2022. “Why Imaginary Worlds? The Psychological Foundations and Cultural Evolution of Fictions with Imaginary Worlds.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45 (e276): 1–72. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000923. Justus, Timothy. 2022. “Constructing Film Emotions: The Theory of Constructed Emotion as a Biocultural Framework for Cognitive Film Theory.” Projections 16 (2): 74–101. doi:10.3167/proj.2022.160204. Scrivner, Coltan, Marc M. Andersen, Uffe Schjødt, and Mathias Clasen. 2022. ”The Psychological Benefits of Scary Play in Three Types of Horror Fans.” Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Advance online publication. doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000354. This review was slated to be published in Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (vol. 7.2). However, contributions were pulled following a transfer of ownership of the journal.