Monthly Archives: September 2013

Superheroes, Supervillains, and Ourselves upon the OCEAN

The ERIICA Project (Empirical Research on the Interpretation & Influence of the Comic Arts) explores how we view heroes and villains in fiction and real life, so we might learn, among other things, if we hold ourselves and our heroes up to unrealistic standards and whether we fail to recognize the humanity in life’s good guys and bad guys, as well as the best in ourselves.

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