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  1. The Bad Breaks of Walter White: An Evolutionary Approach to the Fictional Antihero.Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen - 2017 - Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 1 (1):103-120.
    This article investigates the nature and appeal of morally ambiguous protagonists, or anti-heroes, through an evolutionary lens. It argues that morally ambiguous protagonists navigate conflicts between prosocial and antisocial motivational pulls. In so doing they present audiences with a window onto the conflicts inherent in human sociality. Working from this premise, the article analyzes the morally ambiguous protagonist Walter White from the TV series Breaking Bad, complementing the analysis with survey results. The article finally discusses critically the role of moral (...)
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  • Connoisseurship, Art History, and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies.Sonja Drimmer - 2022 - Speculum 97 (2):415-468.
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  • A Cross-Disciplinary Survey of Beliefs about Human Nature, Culture, and Science.Joseph Carroll, John A. Johnson, Catherine Salmon, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Mathias Clasen & Emelie Jonsson - 2017 - Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 1 (1):1-32.
    How far has the Darwinian revolution come? To what extent have evolutionary ideas penetrated into the social sciences and humanities? Are the “science wars” over? Or do whole blocs of disciplines face off over an unbridgeable epistemic gap? To answer questions like these, contributors to top journals in 22 disciplines were surveyed on their beliefs about human nature, culture, and science. More than 600 respondents completed the survey. Scoring patterns divided into two main sets of disciplines. Genetic influences were emphasized (...)
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