Mads Larsen

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Academic interests

Evolutionary psychology
Nordic culture, literature, and other forms of fiction
Well-being, happiness, meaning
Deep cultural changes

Background

PhD, UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies
MA, UCLA Scandinavian Section
MFA, UCLA Theater, Film and Television
BA, Oslo Metropolitan University
BS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Tags: Evolutionary Psychology, Cultural Transitions, Positive Psychology, Comparative Literature, Film & Media, Composition

Larsen, Mads (2024). A Pop Literature Theory of Mind of the Romantic Century’s Dark Triad Seducers. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2330-2925. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000352.
Larsen, Mads & Leif, Kennair (2024). Enough With the Incels! A Literary Cry for Help From Female Insings (Involuntary Single). Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2330-2925. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000349. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). Postmodern Queering of Family in 101 Reykjavik. Journal of Family History. ISSN 0363-1990. 48(4), p. 470–487. doi: 10.1177/03631990231167553. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). Mediating Immersion in Moving Images of Dante’s Inferno: From Silent Cinema to Virtual Reality. Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ). ISSN 0090-4260. 51(2).
Larsen, Mads (2023). Americanizing the Scandinavian Super Underdog in Eighteen Film Remakes. Journal of Film and Video. ISSN 0742-4671. 75(1), p. 29–45. doi: 10.5406/19346018.75.1.03. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). An evolutionary case for polygyny to counter demographic collapse. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1062950. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads & Witoszek, Nina (2023). Strategies of prosociality: Comparing Nordic and Slavonic altruism toward Ukrainian refugees. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1065889. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina & Chun Yeung, June (2023). A multilevel selection model for prosocial well-being. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1068119. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). European movements for confluent love: Revealing romantic delusions with the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough and Comedy Italian Style. Journal of European Studies. ISSN 0047-2441. 53(2), p. 132–152. doi: 10.1177/00472441231172055. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). Memory as Tyranny: A Dataist Argument for Posthuman Interconnectivity in Humans and Real Humans. Memory Studies. ISSN 1750-6980. 16(4). doi: 10.1177/1750698020982062.
Larsen, Mads (2023). Antipolygynous Bachelorhood in Icelandic Sagas. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2330-2925. 17(4), p. 365–380. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000292.
Larsen, Mads (2023). Toward a Dataist Future: Tracing Scandinavian Posthumanism in Real Humans. AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence. ISSN 0951-5666. 38, p. 349–361. doi: 10.1007/s00146-021-01296-9. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2023). Nordic Noir’s Exemplary Microcosm: Promoting Core Design Principles for Group Efficacy. World Futures. ISSN 0260-4027. 79(4). doi: 10.1080/02604027.2021.1899576.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Anticipating the Modern Mating Moralities in Holberg’s Comedies. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2330-2925. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000310.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 6(2). doi: 10.26613/esic.6.2.298. Full text in Research Archive
Larsen, Mads (2022). Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel. Comparative Literature. ISSN 0010-4124. 74(3), p. 345–372. doi: 10.1215/00104124-9722389.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Staging the Market Mechanisms of Medieval Mating in Den utro hustru. Comparative drama. ISSN 0010-4078. 56(3), p. 283–312. doi: 10.1353/cdr.2022.0013.
Larsen, Mads (2022). A Liberal Stand-Off with Deplorables: Adapting Ibsen from Nietzscheanism through Nazism to Neoliberalism. Journal of European Studies. ISSN 0047-2441. 52(1), p. 23–40. doi: 10.1177/00472441211072604.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Probably Ghostwritten, L’enfant noir: A Lost African Vision for Global Interdependence with 21st Century Relevance. Research in African Literatures. ISSN 0034-5210. 52(1), p. 52–70. doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.1.04.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Repeating Authorial Blackface in Analogous Adaptation of Probably Ghostwritten The Dark Child. Adaptation. ISSN 1755-0637. 14(3), p. 399–415. doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apaa033.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 93(4), p. 505–532. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.93.4.0505.
Larsen, Mads (2021). The Lutheran Imaginary that Underpins Social Democracy. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.746406.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Evolutionary Insights Into a Maladapted Viking in Gísla saga. Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP). ISSN 0363-6941. 120(3), p. 302–325. doi: 10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.3.0302.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 5(1), p. 41–55. doi: 10.26613/esic.5.1.209.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Battleground of Humanisms: How Väinö Linna’s Under the North Star United What Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism Tore Apart. The European Legacy. ISSN 1084-8770. 26(6), p. 603–620. doi: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1940559.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Workshopping Essay Structure: A Hollywood-Inspired Classroom and Online Model. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. ISSN 1812-9129. 32(3), p. 463–475.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Adapting to Urban Pro-Sociality in Hamsun’s Hunger. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 4(2), p. 33–46. doi: 10.26613/esic.4.2.188.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Bookending the Enlightenment: Scandinavia’s First Novel and the Anthropocene Condemnation of its TV Adaptation. Journal of European Studies. ISSN 0047-2441. 50(4), p. 325–342. doi: 10.1177/0047244120965269.
Larsen, Mads (2020). From Oral Story to Film: A Millennium of Reassessing Icelandic Identity in Gísla saga. Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ). ISSN 0090-4260. 48(4).
Larsen, Mads (2020). Adapting Social Change: Swedish Crime Fiction as a Medium for System Correction. Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance. ISSN 1753-6421. 13(1), p. 37–50. doi: 10.1386/jafp_00011_1.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Sealing New Truths: Film Adaptation as Cultural Capstone for 101 Reykjavík. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. ISSN 2042-7891. 10(1), p. 25–44. doi: 10.1386/jsca_00012_1.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Agreeing on History: Adaptation as Restorative Truth in Finnish Reconciliation. Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ). ISSN 0090-4260. 48(1).
Larsen, Mads (2019). Paratextual Adaptation of Social Importance for Three Groundbreaking Scandinavian Novels. LOGOS: Journal of the World Publishing Community. ISSN 0957-9656. 30(3), p. 40–56. doi: 10.1163/18784712-03003003.
Larsen, Mads (2019). Adapting a Witch to Modern Beliefs and Values: Persecuting the Outsider through Trial, Stage, and Film. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 3(2), p. 39–52. doi: 10.26613/esic.3.2.142.
Larsen, Mads (2019). Belief System Disintegration: Evolutionary Insights from Bergman’s Det sjunde inseglet. World Futures. ISSN 0260-4027. 75(8), p. 632–652. doi: 10.1080/02604027.2019.1671093.
Larsen, Mads (2018). Ofelas: Filming Otherness in Indigenous Revitalization. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics. ISSN 1740-8296. 14(2), p. 233–241. doi: 10.1386/macp.14.2.233_7.
Larsen, Mads (2018). Virtual Sidekick: Second-Person POV in Narrative VR. Journal of Screenwriting. ISSN 1759-7137. 9(1), p. 73–83. doi: 10.1386/josc.9.1.73_1.

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Larsen, Mads (2024). Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse. Routledge. ISBN 9781032813196. 334 p. Show summary
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional stories infused with various mating moralities that compel people to pair-bond and reproduce. After taking readers on a 6-million-year journey through hominin mating regimes—with various extents of promiscuity, polygyny, and monogamy—Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder investigates the past millennium's radical evolution of Western mating beliefs. Nordic literary works illuminate the pivotal transitions between the West’s First, Second, and Third Sexual Revolutions, which occurred around the years 1200, 1750, and 1968. The conclusion chapter points to the Fourth Sexual Revolution, symbolically placed in 2029. Artificial intelligence and other technologies seem likely to transform our mating practices more radically than any of the previous revolutions.
Larsen, Mads & Witoszek, Nina (2024). Evolutionary Perspectives on Enhancing the Quality of Life. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009378543. 72 p. Full text in Research Archive

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Larsen, Mads & Witoszek, Nina (2024). Vil generasjon Z undergrave det norske demokratiet? Aftenposten.
Larsen, Mads (2024). Unge og lykke. [Radio]. NRK Dagsnytt 18.
Larsen, Mads (2024). Lykkegrafene snudd på hodet: –⁠ Ikke rart at unge blir mer kyniske. [Newspaper]. Verdens Gang.
Larsen, Mads & Witoszek, Nina (2023). Er norsk skole tilliten verdig? Aftenposten.
Larsen, Mads (2023). Wolfgang Wee Uncut podcast. [Internet]. YouTube.
Larsen, Mads (2023). Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom podcast. [Internet]. YouTube.
Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina & Yeung, June Chun (2023). Corrigendum: A multilevel selection model for prosocial well-being (Frontiers in Psychology, (2023), 14, (1068119), 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1068119). Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1264742.
Larsen, Mads & Witoszek, Nina (2023). Corrigendum: Strategies of prosociality: comparing Nordic and Slavonic altruism toward Ukrainian refugees (Frontiers in Psychology, (2023), 14, (1065889), 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1065889). Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1264744.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Literature, article reviews. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 6(2), p. 143–145. doi: 10.26613/esic.6.2.312.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Literature, article reviews. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 6(1), p. 135–137.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Literature, article reviews. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 5(2), p. 145–147.
Larsen, Mads (2021). Literature, article reviews. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. ISSN 2472-9884. 5(1), p. 135–137.
Larsen, Mads (2020). Swedish Marxist Noir: The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler by Per Hellgren. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 92(1), p. 134–137.
Larsen, Mads (2019). Too Much and not Enough – 1968 and Global Cinema, Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. Film International. ISSN 1651-6826.
Larsen, Mads (2019). The Compulsive Writer-Director’s Guide – Making Your First Feature Film by Dominick Bagnato. Film International. ISSN 1651-6826.
Larsen, Mads (2022). Bridging the Narrative Abyss: Evolution Toward Social Democracy in a Millennium of Nordic Fiction. University of California, Los Angeles.

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