Pádraig Mac Carron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pádraig Mac Carron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pádraig |
| FAMILY NAME | Mac Carron |
| SIGNATURE | MAC CARRON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Applied Mathematics (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comic-Book Superheroes and Prosocial Agency
We argue that the counterfactual representations of popular culture, like their religious cognates, are shaped by cognitive constraints that become visible when considered in aggregate. In particular, we argue that comic-book literature embodies core intuitions about sociality and its maintenance that are activated by the cognitive problem of living in large groups. This leads to four predictions: comic-book enforcers should (1) be punitively pro…
Sizes of Permanent Campsite Communities Reflect Constraints on Natural Human Communities
Both small-scale human societies and personal social networks have a characteristic hierarchical structure with successively inclusive layers of 15, 50, 150, 500, and 1,500 individuals. It has been suggested that these values represent a set of natural social attractors, or "sweet spots," in organizational terms. We exploited the new phenomenon of permanent (i.e., residential) campsites to ask whether these values are present in the size distribu…
Viking Sagas
The Icelandic sagas are thousand-year-old stories of brave deeds and lives and loves, with a cast of thousands – but how true to life are they? Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna analyse the interactions between the characters and find that social networks of the Viking era were very similar to those of today.
Sizes of Permanent Campsite Communities Reflect Constraints on Natural Human Communities
Both small-scale human societies and personal social networks have a characteristic hierarchical structure with successively inclusive layers of 15, 50, 150, 500, and 1,500 individuals. It has been suggested that these values represent a set of natural social attractors, or "sweet spots," in organizational terms. We exploited the new phenomenon of permanent (i.e., residential) campsites to ask whether these values are present in the size distribu…
Viking Sagas
The Icelandic sagas are thousand-year-old stories of brave deeds and lives and loves, with a cast of thousands – but how true to life are they? Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna analyse the interactions between the characters and find that social networks of the Viking era were very similar to those of today.
Comic-Book Superheroes and Prosocial Agency
We argue that the counterfactual representations of popular culture, like their religious cognates, are shaped by cognitive constraints that become visible when considered in aggregate. In particular, we argue that comic-book literature embodies core intuitions about sociality and its maintenance that are activated by the cognitive problem of living in large groups. This leads to four predictions: comic-book enforcers should (1) be punitively pro…
Sizes of Permanent Campsite Communities Reflect Constraints on Natural Human Communities
Both small-scale human societies and personal social networks have a characteristic hierarchical structure with successively inclusive layers of 15, 50, 150, 500, and 1,500 individuals. It has been suggested that these values represent a set of natural social attractors, or "sweet spots," in organizational terms. We exploited the new phenomenon of permanent (i.e., residential) campsites to ask whether these values are present in the size distribu…
Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Ask price (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Business (1 work)