Dr. M. Afzal Upal
Defence Research & Development, Canada
Email: afzal.upal@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Qualifications
Defence Scientist & Research Group Leader, Defence Research & Development Canada
Publications (selected)
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M. A. Upal. Memory, Mystery & Coherence: Does the Presence of 2-3 Counterintuitive Concepts Predict Cultural Success of A Narrative? Journal of Cognition and Culture, 11, 2011.
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M. A. Upal. From Individual to Social Counter-intuitiveness: How layers of innovation weave together to form multilayered tapestries of human cultures, Mind and Society, 11, 2011.
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M. A. Upal (2010) Finding the Sweet Spot: Is There a Fixed MCI-Template for Culturally Successful Folktales? In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, pages 2733-2738, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal (2010) On Attractiveness of Surprising Ideas: How Memorability of Culturally-Counterintuitive Ideas Drives Cultural Dynamics, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, pages 742-747, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal & M. Harmon-Vukic (2010) Influence of Integration and Counterintuitiveness on Memory for Text, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2417, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal (2010) To Be Subtle or To Be Clear?: Comparing Strategies for Changing People’s Attitudes Towards Social Groups, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2406, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal (2010) Explaining the Minimal Counterintuitiveness Effect Without Assuming A Strongly Modular Mind, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2411, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal. An Alternative View of the Minimal Counter-intuitiveness Effect, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 11(2), 194-203, 2009.
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M. A. Upal. Artificial Intelligence and Religion, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 8(3), 232-235, 2008.
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M. A. Upal & Predictive Models of Cultural Transmission, in Trajkovski & Collins (Ed) Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGA Press, pp 51-58, 2009.
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M. A. Upal, L. Gonce, J. Slone, and R. Tweney, Contextualizing counterintuitiveness: How context affects comprehension and memorability of counterintuitive concepts, Cognitive Science, 31(2), 193-218, 2007.
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S Slone, L. Gonce, M. A. Upal, A, Tweney, R., & Edwards, K. Imagery effects on recall of minimally counterintuitive concepts, Journal of Cognition & Culture, 2007, 7(3-4), 355-367
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M. A. Upal & R. Warren (2007) Simulating the Emergence of Complex Cultural Beliefs, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, Berlin: Springer Verlag.
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M. A. Upal & R. Warren (2007) Towards A Knowledge-rich Agent-based Social Simulation in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics, D. Nau & J. Wilkenfeld (Editors), pages 87-96, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press (ISBN: 978-1-57735-342).
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M. A. Upal (2007) The Optimal Cognitive Template of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1575-1579, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal & R. Sama (2007), Effect of Communication on Belief Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pages 151-156. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis Press.
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M. A. Upal (2007) What is More Memorable Counterintuitive Concepts Interpreted Metaphorically or Literally?, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1581-1586, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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M. A. Upal (2007) The Structure of False Social Beliefs, in Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, pages 282-286, IEEE Press.
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L. Gonce, M. A. Upal, J. Slone, & R. Tweney, The role of context in the recall of counterintuitive concepts, Journal of Cognition & Culture, 6(4), 521-547, 2006.
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R. Tweney, M. A. Upal, L. Gonce, D. J. Slone, K. Edwards. The Creative Structuring of Counterintuitive Worlds, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6(3), 483-498, 2006.
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M. A. Upal (2006) From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Culture, in Cognitive Modeling and Agent-based Social Simulation: Papers from the AAAI-06 Workshop, M. A. Upal & R. Sun (editors) (ISBN 978-1-57735-284-6), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
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R. Alexander & M. A. Upal (2006) Fashion as Collective Behavior, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Sciences.
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A. Dakkak, M. Jackson, M. A. Upal (2006) Social Simulation of Knowledge Sharing and Reputation, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Social Sciences.