My favourite thing about my field is that I can claim reading this paper as "work research".
You can read it too! It's FREE access.
Also, can we just gave a "wahoo" for Donna Yates' approachable language? This is how you communicate science!
A screenshot of a scientific paper published online by Cambridge University Press. It is entitled "T Rex is fierce, T rex is charismatic, T rex is litigious. Disruptive Objects in affective desirescapes. The authors are Donna Yates and Emily Peacock and it was published May 09 2024.
The abstract reads as follows:
In this paper we present T. rex fossils as disruptive objects that can drastically influence the actions and reactions of humans that encounter them. We present a vision of the T. rex as being a key node within a web of human and object associations that ultimately produces, first, extreme desire in humans, and then a breakdown in human relationships resulting in disagreements, disputes, lawsuits, and the committing of crime. From there we bring these T. rex fossils into the concept of desirescape which sees a network of object/object and object/human reactions provoking irresistible desire in humans. We argue that this desire can push humans to violate law or social norms or, in several T. rex cases, sue each other. How then should we humans approach T. rex and other disruptive objects? Cautiously, and with the knowledge that these objects may be more powerful than we are.