Can Reading Dracula Make You a Better Person?

Victorian novels helped us evolve into better people, say psychologists

A “team of evolutionary psychologists, led by Joseph Carroll at the University of Missouri in St Louis, applied Darwin’s theory of evolution to literature by asking 500 academics to fill in questionnaires on characters from 201 classic Victorian novels. The respondents were asked to define characters as protagonists or antagonists, rate their personality traits, and comment on their emotional response to the characters.”

See a summary of the results on Guardian.co.uk