At the broadest level, my research is concerned with the cognitive and cultural factors that inform how human beings think about, create and communicate representations. In this regard, it cuts across both the humanities and the social sciences. Methodologically, I am very interested in how quantitative and experimental methods can be applied to qualitative cultural and linguistic data (and particularly to 'big' data). The range of my interests can be ascertained from my publications; I am always open to being approached by potential collaborators in these (or any other) areas.
The Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms: Multidimensional measures of Perceptual and Action Strength for 40,000 English words
Lynott, D., Connell, L., Brysbaert, M., Brand, J. & Carney, J., 1/06/2020, In: Behavior Research Methods. 52, 3, p. 1271-1291 21 p.Necessary fictions: complex cognition and counterfactual narratives
Carney, J., 30/08/2019, Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution. Grishakova, M. & Poulaki, M. (eds.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska, (Frontiers of Narrative).Psycho-cosmology: mental mapping in Táin Bó Cuailgne
Carney, J., 7/02/2018, Celtic myth in the 21st century: the gods and their stories in a global perspective. Lyle, E. (ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, (New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology).Comic-book superheroes and prosocial agency: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the effects of cognitive factors on popular representations
Carney, J. & MacCarron, P., 10/2017, In: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 17, 3-4, p. 306–330 25 p.The space between your ears: construal level theory, science fiction and cognitive science
Carney, J., 9/02/2017, Dialogues between literature and cognition . Burke, M. & Troscianko, E. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University PressWhat is the naturalistic basis of theological interpretation?
Carney, J. & David-Barrett, T., 2017, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 7, 4, p. 289-292 4 p.Life course similarities on social networking sites
David-Barrett, T., Behncke Izquierdo, I., Carney, J., Novak, K., Launay, J. & Rotkirch, A., 12/2016, In: Advances in Life Course Research . 30, p. 84-89 6 p.The deification of historical figures and the emergence of priesthoods as a solution to a network coordination problem
Dávid-Barrett, T. & Carney, J., 1/10/2016, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 6, 4, p. 307-317 11 p.The return of the oppressed: intra-social inequality and supernatural agency in Táin Bó Cuailgne and Crofton Croker’s ‘Teigue of the Lee’
Carney, J., 1/10/2016, In: Cosmos. 32, p. 63-81 19 p.Grave matters: mediating corporeal objects and subjects through mortuary practices
Gantley, M. J. & Carney, J., 04/2016, In: M/C Journal. 19, 1Higher-order mentalising and executive functioning
Launay, J., Pearce, E., Wlodarski, R., van Duijn, M., Carney, J. & Dunbar, R. I. M., 11/2015, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 86, p. 6-14 9 p.Women favour dyadic relationships, but men prefer clubs: cross-cultural evidence from social networking
David-Barrett, T., Rotkirch, A., Carney, J., Izquierdo, I. B., Krems, J. A., Townley, D., McDaniell, E., Byrne-Smith, A. & Dunbar, R. I. M., 16/03/2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 3, 1 p., e0118329.Mating strategies in Mozart's Figaro
Dávid-Barrett, T., Rotkirch, A., Carney, J. & Izquierdo, I. B., 2015, In: Human Ethology Bulletin. 30, 1, p. 83-98 16 p.Inference or enaction? the impact of genre on the narrative processing of other minds
Carney, J., Wlodarski, R. & Dunbar, R., 3/12/2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 12, 14 p., e114172.Supernatural intuitions and classic detective fiction: a cognitivist appraisal
Carney, J., 1/06/2014, In: Style. 48, 2, p. 203-218 16 p.Social psychology and the comic-book superhero: a Darwinian approach
Carney, J., Dunbar, R., Machin, A., Dávid-Barrett, T. & Júnior, M. S., 1/01/2014, In: Philosophy and Literature. 38, 1A, p. A195-A215 21 p.Juvenile porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) sighting at Crookhaven, Ireland
Quigley, D. & Carney, J., 2014, In: Irish Naturalists' Journal. 33, p. 71-73 3 p.Manifesto for the Literary Humanities
Carney, J. & Troscianko, E., 2014Some previously unrecognized references to classical historians in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The Last Man
Carney, J., 2014, In: Notes and Queries. 61, 4, p. 527-530 4 p.Homo Hibernicus: myth, ethnography and nationalism in Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
Carney, J., 21/05/2012, In: Studies in Documentary Film. 6, 1, p. 61-79 19 p.Time for change? climate science reconsidered
Rapley, C., de Meyer, K. & Carney, J., 05/2012, UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science .Beckett re-membered: after the centenary
Carney, J., Madden, L., O'Sullivan, M. & White, K., 2012, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.The buzzing of B: the subject as insect in Beckett's Molloy
Carney, J., 2012, Beckett re-membered: after the centenary. Carney, J., Madden, L., O'Sullivan, M. & White, K. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, p. 228-241 14 p.Advertising and the predation loop: a biosemiotic model
Carney, J., 1/12/2008, In: Biosemiotics. 1, 3, p. 313-327 15 p.“Unweaving the rainbow": the semantic organization of the lyric
Carney, J., 04/2008, In: Journal of Literary Semantics. 37, 1, p. 33-53 21 p.The pangs of the Ulstermen: an exchangist perspective
Carney, J., 2008, In: Journal of Indo-European Studies. 36, 1&2, p. 52-66 15 p.Narrative and ontology in Hesiod's Homeric Hymn to Demeter: a catastrophist approach
Carney, J., 11/2007, In: Semiotica. 2007, 167, p. 337-368 32 p.'Gifts of heaven--things of earth': haunting and exchange in Conrad's 'Karain: a memory'
Carney, J., 2007, In: L'Epoque Conradienne. 33, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.Jung, Carl Gustav
Carney, J., 2004, The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary EncyclopediaMyth
Carney, J., 2004, The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Encyclopedia