Wojciech Ma?ecki is assistant professor at the University of Wroc?aw, Poland. He specializes in literary theory, ecocriticism, animal studies, American pragmatism, aesthetics, and the empirical study of literature. He is the author and editor of five books and of numerous articles published in journals such as The Oxford Literary Review, Poetics, Angelaki, and PLoS One. Piotr Sorokowski is associate professor and head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wroc?aw, Poland. He has published more than seventy research articles related to evolutionary, cultural, and social psychology, including in Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. His work has been discussed by the media all over the world, including BBC, CNN, Time, and The New Yorker. Bogus?aw Paw?owski is head of the Department of Human Biology at the University of Wroc?aw, Poland. He deals with human behavior and preferences in relationship to body morphology and physiology. He has published mo