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Preprints

• Lee H, Anglada-Tort M, Sobchuk O, van Rijn P, Schönwiesner M, Tchernichovski O, Park M, Jacoby N (2024) Global music discoveries reveal cultural shifts during the war in Ukraine, in review  

• Dubourg E, Thouzeau V, et al. (2024) The cognitive foundations of fictional stories, in review, Psychology Inquiry  

Books

• Sobchuk O (forthcoming) Stories Evolve: A Theory of Historical Change for Computational Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Sobchuk O (2018) Charting Artistic Evolution: An Essay in Theory. Tartu: University of Tartu Press  

Published Papers

• Sobchuk O, Youngblood M, Morin O (2024). First-mover advantage in music, EPJ Data Science 13: 37     

• Sobchuk, O, Šeļa, A (2024). Computational thematics: Comparing algorithms for clustering the genres of literary fiction, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11: 438     

• Sobchuk O (2023) Evolution of modern literature and film. Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, eds. R. Kendal, J. Tehrani, & J. Kendal  

• Morin O, Sobchuk O (2023) Why monsters are dangerous, Poetics Today 44(4): 647–664  

• Sobchuk O (2022) How granular should our explanations of fantastic fiction be? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45: e300.

• Morin O, Sobchuk O (2021) The shortlist effect: Nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success, Evolutionary Human Sciences 3: e51     

• Tinits P, Sobchuk O (2020) Open-ended cumulative cultural evolution of Hollywood film crews, Evolutionary Human Sciences 2: e26     

• Sobchuk O, Tinits P (2020) Cultural attraction in film evolution: The case of anachronies, Journal of Cognition and Culture 20(3-4): 218–237     

• Morin O, Acerbi A, Sobchuk O (2019) Why people die in novels: Testing the Ordeal Simulation Hypothesis, Palgrave Communications 5: 62     

• Moretti F., Sobchuk O (2019) Hidden in plain sight: Data visualization in the humanities, New Left Review 118: 86–115  

• Kanatova M, Milyakina A, Pilipovec T, Shelya A, Sobchuk O, Tinits P (2017) Broken time, continued evolution: Anachronies in contemporary films, Stanford Literary Lab, Pamphlet 14  

• Shelya A, Sobchuk O (2017) The shortest species: How the length of Russian poetry changed (1750–1921), Studia Metrica et Poetica 4: 66–84  

• Sobchuk O (2016) The evolution of dialogues, Poetics Today 37(1): 137–154  

Book reviews

• Sobchuk O (2021) Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age by Alberto Acerbi, Journal of Communication 71(6): E35–E37  

• Sobchuk O (2014) Interweaving narratology and experimental psychology, Cognitive Semiotics 7: 138–143  

• Sobchuk O (2013) Yuri Lotman’s semiotic theory for beginners, Poetics Today 34: 611–613  

Українською 🇺🇦

• Собчук О. (2013) Історія та сучасна гуманітаристика: дослідження з теорії знання про минуле, Ukraina Moderna 20: 391–397  

• Собчук О. (2012) Переосмислення понять наративності, персонажа і фокалізації в сучасній когнітивній наратології, Магістеріум 48: 108–113