Michael Bang Petersen
Aarhus University(DK)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Cultural Differences and Values
Most-Cited Works
- → The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic(2020)546 cited
- → Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter(2021)517 cited
- → Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic(2010)305 cited
- → Public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines: cross-national evidence on levels and individual-level predictors using observational data(2021)296 cited
- → Social Welfare as Small‐Scale Help: Evolutionary Psychology and the Deservingness Heuristic(2011)294 cited
- → The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care(2016)289 cited
- → Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues(2012)274 cited
- → National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic(2022)273 cited
- → Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations(2016)267 cited
- → The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration(2017)266 cited