Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist

Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University, USA. Since 2014, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (an APA journal). His extensive publications include over thirty books and approximately 300 papers.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing Shakespeare's psychological thought experiments; 2. Experimental research; Part I. Thought Experiments Involving Plays within Plays: 3. Hamlet; 4. Henry IV-Part- I; Part II. Thought Experiments and the Power of Context: 5. The Tempest; 6. As You Like It; 7. King Lear; 8. Othello; 9. Richard III; 10. Macbeth; 11. Julius Caesar.

'Moghaddam here profitably uses the tools of experimental psychology to re-read Shakespeare's dramatic structures. Recasting Hamlet and Prospero as researchers running human field studies, and reading Macbeth and King Lear as failed behavioral thought experiments, Moghaddam employs science's early and recent experimental models to powerfully reimagine the organizing principles of Shakespeare's plays.' Elizabeth Hodgson, Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver