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  • A Multilevel Selection Model for Prosocial Well-Being 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina; Chun Yeung, June (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This article proposes an evolutionary model for well-being informed by multilevel selection. We posit that people’s subjective assessment of their own quality of life is the sum their happiness, which is related to individual ...
  • Americanizing the Scandinavian Super Underdog in Eighteen Film Remakes 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
  • An Evolutionary Case for Polygyny to Counter Demographic Collapse 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging ...
  • Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract The Tristan legend is the quintessential love story of the Middle Ages. From the formative period of its courtly branch, the only extant complete version is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (1226). King Hákon ...
  • Enough With the Incels! A Literary Cry for Help From Female Insings (Involuntary Single) 
    Larsen, Mads; Leif, Kennair (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Modern mating markets relegate a growing number of men to being incels (involuntary celibate). Increasing attention befalls another group struggling in the same markets: female insings (involuntary single). In the partly ...
  • European Movements for Confluent Love: Revealing Romantic Delusions with the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough and Comedy Italian Style 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual ...
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Enhancing the Quality of Life 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina (Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Positive psychology is a thriving field with increasing political influence, yet there are few evolutionary studies that have had a tangible impact on rethinking mechanisms of well-being. This Element reviews existing ...
  • Postmodern Queering of Family in '101 Reykjavik' 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could help liberate everyone ...
  • Strategies of Prosociality: Comparing Nordic and Slavonic Altruism toward Ukrainian Refugees 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Nordic high-trust societies are underpinned by prosociality , a term denoting cooperation and working for the good of others. State-funded voluntarism provides opportunities for altruism that appears to contribute to the ...
  • Toward a Dataist Future: Tracing Scandinavian Posthumanism in Real Humans 
    Larsen, Mads (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. ...