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RIVETED

First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the U.S.—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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ISBN: 978-1-137-27901-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Davies, Jim.

Riveted : the science of why jokes make us laugh, movies make us cry, and religion makes us feel one with the universe / Jim Davies.

pages cm Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-137-27901-9 (hardback)

1. Evolutionary psychology. 2. Cognitive psychology. I. Title.

BF698.95.D38 2014

155.7—dc23

2013050467

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