Published Work

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Jalava, Jarkko, Griffiths, Stephanie, McLaren, Sonya, & Larsen, R. R. (forthcoming). “Re-Evaluating the Forensic Usefulness of PCL Psychopathy Assessments”. In Monica K. Miller, DeMatteo, D., & Bornstein, B. H. (eds.), Advances in Psychology and Law (Vol. 8.). Cham: Springer Nature.

Sackris, D., and Larsen, R. R. (2024). The Disunity of Moral Judgment: Evidence and Implications. Philosophical Psychology, 37 (2), 351-370. doi:10.1080/09515089.2022.2056437. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Makowski, D., Chen, A., Larsen, R. R., Boyle, G., and Lilienfeld, S. O. (2023). “Clinical Neuropsychology in Era of Neuroimaging”. In Gregory J. Boyle, Yaakov Stern, Dan J. Stein, Barbara J. Sahakian, Charles J. Golden, Tatia Mei-Chun Lee & S-H Annabel Chen (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology (2 Vols.) (chapter 4). London: SAGE Publishing. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Sackris, D., and Larsen, R. R. (2023). The Perniciousness of Higher-Order Evidence on Aesthetic Appreciation. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0012217323000070. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Jalava, J., Griffiths, S., & Larsen, R. R. (2023). How to Keep Unreproducible Neuroimaging Evidence out of Court: A Case Study in fMRI and Psychopathy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 29(1), 1–18. doi:10.1037/law0000383. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Sackris, D., and Larsen, R. R. (2023). Are There “Moral” Judgments?. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 19(2), 1-23. doi:10.31820/ejap.19.2.1. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Sackris, D., and Larsen, R. R. (2023). Are There “Aesthetic” Judgments?. Erkenntnis. doi:10.1007/s10670-023- 00663-w. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. Koch, P., Jalava, J. and Griffiths, S. (2022). Are Psychopathy Assessments Ethical? A View from Forensic Mental Health. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. doi: 10.1037/tam0000184. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., Maschião, L., Piedade, V., Messas, G., and Hastings, J. (2022). Applied Ontology for Phenomenological Psychopathology? A Cautionary Tale – Authors’ Reply. The Lancet: Psychiatry, 9(10), 766. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00309-1. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., Maschião, L., Piedade, V., Messas, G., and Hastings, J. (2022). More Phenomenology in Psychiatry? Applied Ontology as a Method Towards Integration. The Lancet: Psychiatry. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00156-0. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Jalava, J., S. Griffiths, Larsen, R. R., & Emma Alcott (2022). Genetic Correlates of PCL-R Psychopathy: A Systematic Review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 66, 101765. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2022.101765. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., S. Griffiths, J. Jalava, J. Burns, R. Khoshabe, and N. Raposo (2022). Psychopathy Assessments in Forensic Psychiatry: A Pilot Study of Canadian Practitioners’ Use and Perceptions. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice. doi:10.1108/JCRPP-02-2022-0007. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Hastings, J. and Larsen, R. R. (2021). “Integrative Paradigms for Knowledge Discovery in Mental Health: Overcoming the Fragmentation of Knowledge Inherent in Disparate Theoretical Paradigms”. In Tenenbaum, J. and Ranallo, P. (eds.), Mental Health Informatics: Enabling a Learning Mental Healthcare System (pp. 295-316). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., and Sackris, D. (2021). “Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire”, Robinson, B. (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Amusement (pp. 131-150). New York: Rowman & Littlefield. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Jalava, J., Griffiths, S., Larsen, R. R., Alcott, E. B. (2021). Is the Psychopathic Brain an Artefact of Coding Bias? A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology – Forensic and Legal Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654336. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2020). Are Psychopaths Moral-Psychologically Impaired? Reassessing Emotion-Theoretical Explanations. Mind and Language, 1-17. doi:10.1111/mila.12317. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., De Cruz, H., Kaplan, J., Fuentes, A., Marks, J., Pigliucci, M., Alfano, M., Livingstone Smith, D., and L. Schroeder. (2020). More Than Provocative, Less Than Scientific: A Commentary on The Editorial Decision to Publish Cofnas (2020). Philosophical Psychology, 33(7), 893-898. doi:10.1080/09515089.2020.1805199. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., Jalava, J., and Griffiths, S. (2020). Are Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) Psychopaths Dangerous, Untreatable, and Without Conscience? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(3), 297-311. doi:10.1037/law0000239. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., and Hastings, J. (2020). Mapping the Patient’s Experience: An Applied Ontological Framework for Phenomenological Psychopathology. Phenomenology and Mind, 18, 200-219. doi:10.17454/pam-1815. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2020). Psychopathy as Moral Blindness: A Qualifying Exploration of the Blindness-Analogy in Psychopathy Theory and Research. Philosophical Explorations, 23(3), 214-233. doi:10.1080/13869795.2020.1799662. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., and Sackris, D. (2020). Feeling the Aesthetic: A Pluralist Sentimentalist Theory of Aesthetic Experience. Estetika, 57(2), 116-134. doi:10.33134/eeja.212. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R., and Hastings, J. (Reprint, 2020). From Affective Science to Psychiatric Disorder: Ontology as Semantic Bridge. In Telles-Correia, D., Cheniaux, E. (eds.), New Perspectives in Psychopathology (pp. 108-120). Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88963-551-1. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2019). Psychopathy Treatment and the Stigma of Yesterday’s Research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 29(3), 243-272. doi:10.1353/ken.2019.0024. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (Reprint, 2019). “Psychopathy Treatment and the Stigma of Yesterday’s Research”. In Allhoff, F. and Borden, S. (eds.), Ethics and Error in Medicine (pp. 262-287). New York: Routledge. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Sackris, D., and Larsen, R. R. (2019). A Consideration of Carroll’s Content Theory. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 54, 245-255. doi.org/10.1007/s10790-019-09693-6. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2018). False-Positives in Psychopathy Assessment: Proposing Theory-Driven Exclusion Criteria in Research Sampling. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 14(1), 33-52. doi.org/10.31820/ejap.14.1.2. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. and Janna Hastings (2018). From Affective Science to Psychiatric Disorder: Ontology as Semantic Bridge. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9(487), 1-13. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00487. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2015). The Posited Self: The Non-Theistic Foundation in Kierkegaard’s Writings. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 20(1), 31-54. doi:10.1515/kierke-2015-0104. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Larsen, R. R. (2013). Schelling and Kierkegaard in Perspective: Integrating Existence into Idealism. Res Philosophica, 90(4), 481-501. doi:10.11612/resphil.2013.90.4.3. [LINK TO ARTICLE]

Other Publications:

Op-ed: “The Editors of Philosophical Psychology Stalled and Rejected Our Commentary to an Unscientific and Racist Publication”, in Science and Philosophy via Medium, June 15, 2020. URL: https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/the-editors-of-philosophical-psychology-stalled-and-rejected-our-commentary-to-an-unscientific-and-2f7393df48af

Commentary (Pre-print): “More Than Provocative, Less Than Scientific: A Commentary on the Editorial Decision to Publish Cofnas (2020)”, in PhilPapers Archive, June 15, 2020. URL: https://philpapers.org/rec/ROSMTP-3

Commentary: “So, Is Psychopathy Simply a Big Juicy Nothingburger? – Commentary on Heidi Maibom’s What can philosophers learn from psychopathy?”, in Brainblog (online blog on cognitive science), December 4, 2018. URL: http://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/12/05/european-journal-of-analytic-philosophy-symposium-special-issue-on-psychopathy.aspx

Op-ed: “Lack of Refugee Aid Discloses a Chronic Moral-Political Crisis” (in Danish), in Turbulens (Danish online non-academic journal), April 22, 2016. URL: http://www.turbulens.net/temaer/moralogetik/?article=423

Book Review: Alison Assiter’s, “Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 46 (5), pp. 1-3. Taylor and Francis. 2015.

Book Review: Kresten Nordentoft’s, “‘What does the Fire Chief Say?’ Kierkegaard’s Confrontation with His Times”, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources, 18 (1), pp. 143-148. Routledge. 2016.

Book Review: Gregor Malantschuk’s, “Freedom and Existence. Studies in Søren Kierkegaard’s Thinking”, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources, 18 (1), pp. 125-130. Routledge. 2016.

Book Review: Johannes Sløk’s, “Kierkegaard’s Universe, a New Guide to the Genius”, in Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources, 18 (1), pp. 173-178. Routledge. 2016.

Op-ed: “The Lazy Format of Dogmatism” (in Danish), in Weekendavisen (Danish weekly highbrow newspaper), April 10, 2015. URL: http://www.weekendavisen.dk/smarticle/view/1

Op-ed: “Perhaps One Day the Beauty Will Vanish”, in Dagbladet Information (Danish daily newspaper), September 17, 2014. URL: http://www.information.dk/509844