{"id":70495,"date":"2020-10-27T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=70495"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:28","slug":"carleton-expert-available-halloween-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-expert-available-halloween-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available &#8211; Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Experts Available &#8211; Halloween\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Oct. 31 is Halloween and Carleton experts are available to discuss the psychology of horror media, as well as witches, witchcraft and Wicca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Davies<\/strong><br>\nProfessor, Cognitive Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:Jim.Davies@carleton.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim.Davies@carleton.ca&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davies is available to talk about the psychology of why we want to be scared by horror media and seek out what appear to be unpleasant experiences. Davies is the Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vsim\/cognitive-science\/science-of-imagination-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science of Imagination&nbsp;Laboratory<\/a>, where his team explores computational modeling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual imagination. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><strong>Kimberly Stratton<\/strong><\/b><br>\nProfessor, Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:Kim.Stratton@carleton.ca\">Kim.Stratton@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stratton is available to comment on stereotypes and persecution of witches, feminist identification with witches, Wicca and modern religious celebrations of the holiday. Stratton\u2019s research interests include religion, violence and social identity in antiquity; ancient magic and gender. Her publications include, <em>Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><b><br>\n<\/b>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 31 is Halloween and Carleton experts are available to discuss the psychology of horror media, as well as witches, witchcraft and Wicca. Jim Davies Professor, Cognitive Science Email: Jim.Davies@carleton.ca&nbsp; Davies is available to talk about the psychology of why we want to be scared by horror media and seek out what appear to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":70521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1661],"class_list":["post-70495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-religion"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70535,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495\/revisions\/70535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}