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Alexander BorPost-doc, Central European UniversityVerified email at ceu.edu
Frederik JørgensenAssistant professor, Aarhus UniversityVerified email at ps.au.dk
Lene AarøeAssociate Professor, Political Science, Aarhus University, DenmarkVerified email at ps.au.dk
Rune SlothuusProfessor of Political Science, Aarhus UniversityVerified email at ps.au.dk
John ToobyProfessor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa BarbaraVerified email at anth.ucsb.edu
Leda CosmidesDistinguished Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Co-director, Center for EvolutionaryVerified email at psych.ucsb.edu
Lasse LaustsenAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus UniversityVerified email at ps.au.dk
Kevin (Vin) ArceneauxSciences Po ParisVerified email at sciencespo.fr
Daniel SznycerAssistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State UniversityVerified email at okstate.edu
Aaron SellHeidelberg UniversityVerified email at heidelberg.edu
Florian van LeeuwenAssistant professor, Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg UniversityVerified email at uvt.nl
Pascal BoyerWashington University in St. LouisVerified email at wustl.edu
Anja BechmannProfessor, Aarhus University, DenmarkVerified email at cc.au.dk
Robert BöhmUniversity of Vienna, University of CopenhagenVerified email at univie.ac.at
Stefan PfattheicherDepartment of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus UniversityVerified email at psy.au.dk
Oliver Scott CurryAnthropology, University of OxfordVerified email at anthro.ox.ac.uk
Henrikas BartuseviciusSenior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)Verified email at prio.org
Søren SerritzlewProfessor of Political Science, Aarhus UniversityVerified email at ps.au.dk
Theresa RobertsonStony Brook UniversityVerified email at stonybrook.edu
Andrew W. DeltonStony Brook UniversityVerified email at stonybrook.edu

Michael Bang Petersen

Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University

Verified email at ps.au.dk

Political Science Political Psychology Evolutionary Psychology


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The emotional path to action: Empathy promotes physical distancing and wearing of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic S Pfattheicher, L Nockur, R Böhm, C Sassenrath, MB Petersen Psychological science 31 (11), 1363-1373, 2020	554	2020
Social welfare as small‐scale help: evolutionary psychology and the deservingness heuristic MB Petersen American Journal of Political Science 56 (1), 1-16, 2012	373	2012
Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic MB Petersen, R Slothuus, R Stubager, L Togeby European Journal of Political Research 50 (1), 24-52, 2011	334	2011
Who deserves help? Evolutionary psychology, social emotions, and public opinion about welfare MB Petersen, D Sznycer, L Cosmides, J Tooby Political psychology 33 (3), 395-418, 2012	284	2012
The behavioral immune system shapes political intuitions: Why and how individual differences in disgust sensitivity underlie opposition to immigration L Aarøe, MB Petersen, K Arceneaux American Political Science Review 111 (2), 277-294, 2017	241	2017
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations JM Tybur, Y Inbar, L Aarøe, P Barclay, FK Barlow, M De Barra, DV Becker, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (44), 12408-12413, 2016	226	2016
Partisan polarization is the primary psychological motivation behind political fake news sharing on Twitter M Osmundsen, A Bor, PB Vahlstrup, A Bechmann, MB Petersen American Political Science Review 115 (3), 999-1015, 2021	222	2021
Crowding out culture: Scandinavians and Americans agree on social welfare in the face of deservingness cues L Aarøe, MB Petersen The Journal of Politics 76 (3), 684-697, 2014	222	2014
Motivated reasoning and political parties: Evidence for increased processing in the face of party cues MB Petersen, M Skov, S Serritzlew, T Ramsøy Political Behavior 35, 831-854, 2013	221	2013
The ancestral logic of politics: Upper-body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution MB Petersen, D Sznycer, A Sell, L Cosmides, J Tooby Psychological science 24 (7), 1098-1103, 2013	220	2013
The deservingness heuristic and the politics of health care C Jensen, MB Petersen American Journal of Political Science 61 (1), 68-83, 2017	198	2017
The naturalness of (many) social institutions: Evolved cognition as their foundation P Boyer, MB Petersen Journal of Institutional economics 8 (1), 1-25, 2012	192	2012
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic JJ Van Bavel, A Cichocka, V Capraro, H Sjåstad, JB Nezlek, T Pavlović, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 517, 2022	185	2022
Public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines: cross-national evidence on levels and individual-level predictors using observational data MF Lindholt, F Jørgensen, A Bor, MB Petersen BMJ open 11 (6), e048172, 2021	185*	2021
Compliance without fear: Individual‐level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic F Jørgensen, A Bor, MB Petersen British Journal of Health Psychology 26 (2), 679-696, 2021	182	2021
Will the COVID-19 pandemic worsen the obesity epidemic? C Clemmensen, MB Petersen, TIA Sørensen Nature Reviews Endocrinology 16 (9), 469-470, 2020	167	2020
Distinct emotions, distinct domains: Anger, anxiety and perceptions of intentionality MB Petersen The Journal of Politics 72 (2), 357-365, 2010	162	2010
Evolutionary political psychology: On the origin and structure of heuristics and biases in politics MB Petersen Political Psychology 36, 45-78, 2015	145	2015
Evolutionary political psychology MB Petersen The handbook of evolutionary psychology 2, 2015	134	2015
To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice MB Petersen, A Sell, J Tooby, L Cosmides Evolution and Human Behavior 33 (6), 682-695, 2012	134	2012

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