{"id":79473,"date":"2021-10-25T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=79473"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:22","slug":"carleton-expert-available-halloween-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-expert-available-halloween-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Expert Available: 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 Expert Available: Halloween\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Halloween is Oct. 31 and a Carleton expert is available to discuss why people enjoy being scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Davies<\/strong><strong><br>\n<\/strong>Professor, Cognitive Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Jim.Davies@carleton.ca\">Jim.Davies@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davies is available to discuss why people enjoy horror and seek out scary experiences when fear is, generally, an unpleasant emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, Davies explores computational modelling 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. He is a frequent contributor to&nbsp;<em>Nautilus<\/em>&nbsp;magazine and is author of&nbsp;<em>Riveted: The Science of How Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe<\/em>. He is a co-host of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mindingthebrainpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Minding the Brain&nbsp;<\/em>podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media relations<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid (he\/him)<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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is Oct. 31 and a Carleton expert is available to discuss why people enjoy being scared. Jim Davies Professor, Cognitive Science Email:&nbsp;Jim.Davies@carleton.ca Davies is available to discuss why people enjoy horror and seek out scary experiences when fear is, generally, an unpleasant emotion. As Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, Davies explores computational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":51265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-79473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-cognitive-science"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79473","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=79473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79475,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79473\/revisions\/79475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}