Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse - Hardcover

Mads Larsen is a literary scholar who uses evolutionary perspectives to study cultural change. After earning a PhD and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, he became a Postdoc and Researcher at the University of Oslo. Larsen has published over three dozen articles. Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder is his first research monograph. He co-authored a book on evolutionary positive psychology. His upcoming monograph is Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to A.I.: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World. Larsen was a review editor for Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture and serves on the editorial board of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.