Michael Bang Petersen
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Michael Bang Petersen's Degrees
- PhD Political Science Aarhus University
- Masters Political Science Aarhus University
- Bachelors Political Science Aarhus University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Bang Petersen is a Danish political scientist. He is a professor at Aarhus University, with research focusing on human evolutionary psychology and its role in politics. Starting in 2020, he led HOPE, a project examining responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in democratic countries and contributing to the Danish government's response to the pandemic.
Michael Bang Petersen's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (333)
- Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic (2011) (210)
- Social welfare as small-scale help: evolutionary psychology and the deservingness heuristic. (2012) (191)
- Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations (2016) (162)
- Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. (2012) (156)
- The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care (2017) (153)
- Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues (2013) (152)
- Crowding Out Culture: Scandinavians and Americans Agree on Social Welfare in the Face of Deservingness Cues (2014) (140)
- The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017) (140)
- Public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines: cross-national evidence on levels and individual-level predictors using observational data (2020) (139)
- National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (2020) (137)
- Will the COVID-19 pandemic worsen the obesity epidemic? (2020) (125)
- The Ancestral Logic of Politics (2013) (110)
- Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter (2020) (98)
- Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015) (90)
- Compliance without fear: Individual‐level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021) (89)
- Distinct Emotions, Distinct Domains: Anger, Anxiety and Perceptions of Intentionality (2010) (86)
- Detecting rare events in video using semantic primitives with HMM (2004) (81)
- To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice. (2012) (81)
- Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015) (80)
- Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies (2016) (79)
- Political Parties and Value Consistency in Public Opinion Formation (2010) (79)
- The behavioral immune system is designed to avoid infected individuals, not outgroups (2017) (79)
- Transparent communication about negative features of COVID-19 vaccines decreases acceptance but increases trust (2021) (77)
- Do Survey Estimates of the Public’s Compliance with COVID-19 Regulations Suffer from Social Desirability Bias? (2020) (76)
- Perceived Conflict and Leader Dominance: Individual and Contextual Factors Behind Preferences for Dominant Leaders (2017) (75)
- Equity or equality? Moral judgments follow the money (2014) (69)
- The naturalness of (many) social institutions: evolved cognition as their foundation (2011) (63)
- Winning Faces Vary by Ideology: How Nonverbal Source Cues Influence Election and Communication Success in Politics (2016) (63)
- Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system (2015) (63)
- Hunger Games (2013) (62)
- Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust (2016) (60)
- Evolutionary psychology and criminal justice: A recalibrational theory of punishment and reconciliation (2010) (59)
- Folk-economic beliefs: An evolutionary cognitive model (2017) (57)
- Freedom for All? The Strength and Limits of Political Tolerance (2010) (53)
- Healthy Out-Group Members Are Represented Psychologically as Infected In-Group Members (2017) (53)
- Politics in the Mind's Eye: Imagination as a Link between Social and Political Cognition (2013) (50)
- States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics (2011) (42)
- A “Need for Chaos” and the Sharing of Hostile Political Rumors in Advanced Democracies (2018) (41)
- Moralization as protection against exploitation: do individuals without allies moralize more? (2013) (36)
- Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare: Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing (2014) (35)
- Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy (2014) (34)
- Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 2020 (2020) (32)
- The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics (2016) (32)
- Information about herd immunity through vaccination and empathy promote COVID-19 vaccination intentions (2020) (31)
- Public Opinion and Evolved Heuristics: The Role of Category-Based Inference (2009) (31)
- Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare (2013) (30)
- Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries (2017) (30)
- Compliance Without Fear: Individual-Level Predictors of Protective Behavior During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (30)
- Vote Choice, Ideology, and Social Dominance Orientation Influence Preferences for Lower Pitched Voices in Political Candidates (2015) (29)
- Birth Weight and Social Trust in Adulthood (2015) (29)
- Upper‐Body Strength and Political Egalitarianism: Twelve Conceptual Replications (2018) (26)
- Corrigendum: Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust (2016) (25)
- Evolutionary Political Psychology (2015) (23)
- Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’ (2021) (21)
- Information about herd immunity through vaccination and empathy promote COVID-19 vaccination intentions. (2021) (20)
- The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors (2018) (20)
- Social Capital in the Brain (2009) (20)
- Ultimate causes of state formation: the significance of biogeography, diffusion, and neolithic revolutions (2010) (20)
- Need, Compassion, and Support for Social Welfare (2018) (19)
- To Defer or to Stand up? How Offender Formidability Affects Third Party Moral Outrage (2011) (19)
- National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (2022) (19)
- Dominant leaders and the political psychology of followership. (2020) (18)
- Willingness to Use an Approved COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-National Evidence on Levels and Individual-Level Predictors (2020) (17)
- Assessing causal pathways between physical formidability and aggression in human males (2017) (17)
- The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence (2021) (17)
- Cognitive Biases and Communication Strength in Social Networks: The Case of Episodic Frames (2018) (17)
- Is the Political Animal Politically Ignorant? Applying Evolutionary Psychology to the Study of Political Attitudes (2012) (17)
- The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Partisan Preferences in Modern Democracies: Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Voting for Socially Conservative Parties (2020) (16)
- Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples (2020) (16)
- The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalysis and Recommendations (2019) (16)
- Reproductive interests and dimensions of political ideology (2017) (15)
- The evolutionary psychology of mass mobilization: how disinformation and demagogues coordinate rather than manipulate. (2020) (15)
- Physiological Responses and Partisan Bias: Beyond Self-Reported Measures of Party Identification (2015) (14)
- Willingness to Take the Booster Vaccine in a Nationally Representative Sample of Danes (2021) (13)
- Hunger Games: Fluctuations in Blood Glucose Levels Influence Social Welfare Support (2013) (13)
- The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis (2019) (12)
- Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis (2016) (12)
- COVID lesson: trust the public with hard truths (2021) (12)
- When the Party Decides: The Effects of Facial Competence and Dominance on Internal Nominations of Political Candidates (2018) (11)
- The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations (2022) (10)
- Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms (2020) (10)
- Beyond Populism (2021) (9)
- Beyond Populism: The Psychology of Status-Seeking and Extreme Political Discontent (2020) (9)
- Framing Political Risks: Individual Differences and Loss Aversion in Personal and Political Situations (2020) (9)
- Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers (2015) (9)
- Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning (2022) (8)
- Online Tallies and the Context of Politics: How Online Tallies Make Dominant Candidates Appear Competent in Contexts of Conflict (2020) (8)
- Studying institutions in the context of natural selection: limits or opportunities? (2013) (8)
- Citizens as Complicits: Distrust in Politicians and Biased Social Dissemination of Political Information (2020) (8)
- Genetic predictors of educational attainment and intelligence test performance predict voter turnout (2020) (7)
- Partisan Goals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization: The Role of Motivated Reasoning in Pressuring Others to Vote (2018) (7)
- Public Support for Government Responses Against COVID-19 Across Western Democracies in 2020 (2020) (7)
- The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood (2020) (7)
- Did the European suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine decrease vaccine acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021) (7)
- Pandemic fatigue fueled political discontent during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (7)
- The evolutionary psychology of mass politics (2011) (6)
- Adaptationism and intuitions about modern criminal justice. (2013) (6)
- Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination (2022) (6)
- Communicate hope to motivate the public during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (6)
- Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Population-scale game-based cognitive assessment (2020) (6)
- Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic (2022) (5)
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded System Support But Not Social Solidarity (2021) (5)
- Weak evidence of country- and institution-related status bias in the peer review of abstracts (2021) (5)
- Evolutionary Theory and Political Behavior (2015) (5)
- Increased Pressure Leads to Decreased Trust Among the Unvaccinated: Effects of the Announcement of the Re-Introduction of Covid Passports in Denmark (2021) (4)
- Does face mask use elicit risk-compensation? Quasi-experimental evidence from Denmark during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2020) (4)
- Success or Failure? A Critical but Optimistic Evaluation of Biopolitics (2014) (4)
- Does face mask use elicit risk-compensation? Quasi-experimental evidence from Denmark during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. (2021) (4)
- Frihed for Loke såvel som for Thor (2007) (4)
- Disgust and political attitudesGuest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue (2020) (4)
- How and why disgust responses underlie prejudice. (2019) (3)
- An Intuitionist Theory of Argument Strength in Politics: How Intuitive Cognitive Biases Produce Universally Strong Arguments (2020) (3)
- Politiske partier som opinionsledere (2012) (3)
- Politics in the Evolved Mind: Political Parties and Coalitional Reasoning (2008) (3)
- Individual differences in political ideology are effects of adaptive error management (2014) (3)
- Hvem fortjener velfærd (2007) (3)
- A Sober Second Thought? A Pre-Registered Experiment on the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Political Tolerance (2019) (3)
- Partisans use emotions as social pressure: Feeling anger and gratitude at exiters and recruits in political groups (2021) (3)
- What is seen and what is not seen in the economy: An effect of our evolved psychology (2018) (3)
- Political Ideology and Precautionary Reasoning: Testing the Palliative Function of Right-Wing Ideology on Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms (2017) (3)
- Transparent Communication About COVID-19 Vaccines Is Not Sufficient for Acceptance but It is Necessary for Trust (2020) (3)
- "Fact-checking" videos reduce belief in but not the sharing of "fake news" on Twitter (2020) (3)
- The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with anti-systemic attitudes and political violence (2020) (2)
- Evolutionary psychology and political psychology: how to use evolutionary psychology to theorize about political psychology (2017) (2)
- The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity (2021) (2)
- Pandemic Fatigue and Populism: The Development of Pandemic Fatigue during the COVID-19 Pandemic and How It Fuels Political Discontent across Eight Western Democracies (2021) (2)
- Prejudice Against the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Conjoint Experiment (2022) (2)
- Political repression motivates antigovernment violence (2020) (2)
- Correction to: ‘Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’’ (2021) (2)
- Dominance-driven autocratic political orientations predict political violence in non-WEIRD and WEIRD samples (2018) (2)
- Super-unsupervised text classification for labeling online political hate (2021) (2)
- Pathogen Avoidance and Conformity: Salient Infectious Disease Does Not Increase Conformity (2021) (2)
- Communicate Hope to Motivate Action Against Highly Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Variants (2021) (2)
- How the Development, Features and Roll-Out of a SARS-COV-2 Vaccine Shape Public Acceptance: A Conjoint Experiment in a Large Representative Sample of Danes (2021) (2)
- Correction for Bryant et al., Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies (2016) (2)
- Do physically stronger males prevail in non-physical conflicts? (2020) (1)
- Specialet som glasloft – hvorfor får mandlige studerende bedre specialekarakterer? (2012) (1)
- Politisk psykologi – De næste skridt (2014) (1)
- Terror and Tolerance: The Challenge of Inclusion of Muslims in Western Europe (Chapter in At the Forefront of Political Psychology Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan) (2020) (1)
- Moralizing Physical Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Personal Motivations Predict Moral Condemnation (2020) (1)
- Monitoring Public Behavior During a Pandemic Using Surveys: Proof-of-Concept Via Epidemic Modelling (preprint) (2022) (1)
- Effects of Intensified Vasodilatory Antihypertensive Treatment on Renal Function, Bloodsupply and Oxygenation in Chronic Kidney Disease (2015) (1)
- Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity? (2023) (1)
- Political ideologies as social strategies: does ideological variation predict behavioral variation in cooperative dilemmas? (2022) (1)
- Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling. (2022) (1)
- Considerations Underlying Parents’ Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines for Their Child: Evidence from Denmark (2021) (1)
- How and why disgust responses underlie prejudice (2019) (1)
- Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations (2022) (1)
- Support for border security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence on levels and predictors from eight Western democracies in 2020 (2020) (1)
- Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues (2012) (1)
- Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism (2022) (1)
- Folk-Economic Beliefs : An Evolutionary Cogniti ve Model 1 with (0)
- Appendix D: Scaling and Measurement of Core Variables (2014) (0)
- Terror and Tolerance (2020) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Covenant Paradox (2014) (0)
- Crowding Out Culture: Scandinavians and Americans Agree on Social Welfare in the Face of Minimal Cues (2012) (0)
- Collective paternalism and vaccination programmes (2021) (0)
- Chapter 4. Flash Point (2014) (0)
- Imagining Politics: How Individual Differences in Imagination Shapes Public Opinion Formation (2011) (0)
- Political Resources and Online Political Hostility How and Why Hostility Is More Prevalent Among the Resourceful (2022) (0)
- Imagining Politics: Imagination and Heuristics in Public Opinion Formation (2011) (0)
- Hostility in political debates online and offline: Who are the offenders - and who are the victims? (2022) (0)
- Why deservingness? Evolved emotions and deservingness judgments in welfare opinions (2009) (0)
- Chapter 2. A Clash of Rights (2014) (0)
- Chapter 6. The Democratic Impulse (2014) (0)
- How Political Parties Help Citizens Take Sides (2008) (0)
- The Evolutionary Psychology of Mass Mobilization: How Disinformation and Demagogues Coordinate Rather Than Manipulate (2020) (0)
- Cooperation and Defection in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma: Do Liberals and Conservatives Display Differences in Social Cognition? (2018) (0)
- Intuitions of Terror: People Equate "Terrorism" With Coalitional Aggression (2016) (0)
- Upper-body Strength and Conflict Resolution in Human Males (2019) (0)
- The Evolutionary Approach to Political Psychology (2022) (0)
- Argument Strength and Psychological Resonance (2016) (0)
- Smittebeskyttende adfærd under anden bølge af covid-19 pandemien i Danmark (2022) (0)
- Physiological and Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology (2016) (0)
- Genetic predictors of educational attainment and intelligence test performance predict voter turnout (2020) (0)
- SA77GENES, RESOURCES AND VOTER TURNOUT: A STUDY INVESTIGATING GENETIC VARIATION UNDERLYING ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION WITHIN A COHORT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS AND A REPRESENTATIVE POPULATION (2019) (0)
- Studying institutions in the context (2012) (0)
- Mathias Osmundsen Negativity and Public Opinion Limits and Consequences of the Negativity Bias in Politics (2017) (0)
- Appendix A: Timeline of the Cartoon Crisis (2014) (0)
- “Fact-checking” videos improve truth discernment ability but do not reduce fake news sharing on Twitter (2020) (0)
- Information battleground: Conflict perceptions motivate the belief in and sharing of fake news about the adversary (2022) (0)
- Facial dominance predicts political candidates’ political positions and their election results (2013) (0)
- Just two statements can make Americans and Scandinavians agree about social welfare (2014) (0)
- Appendix B: Description of the Main Data Set (2014) (0)
- The Deservingness Heuristic and Outgroup Bias in Political Communication (2016) (0)
- Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers (2015) (0)
- Appendix C: Comparison of Respondents from the Height and Aftermath of the Crisis (2014) (0)
- Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (2022) (0)
- Protective behavior during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark (2022) (0)
- Chapter 5. The Concept of Inclusive Tolerance (2014) (0)
- Did the suspension of the AstraZeneca-vaccine decrease vaccine acceptance? (2021) (0)
- Comparison of Intravitreal Aflibercept with Bevacizumab and Ranibizumab for the Treatment of Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration (2013) (0)
- No effect of 3 weeks diet rich in medium-chain triacylglycerols or higholeic sunflower oil on fasting energy expenditure in healthy young men (2001) (0)
- ‘Super-Unsupervised’ Classification for Labelling Text: Online Political Hostility as an Illustration (2023) (0)
- Politik (2015) (0)
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