PoNE publications
Laustsen, L. & Petersen, M. B. (2016). Winning Faces Vary by Ideology: How Nonverbal Source Cues Influence Election and Communication Success in Politics. Political Communication, 33(2), 188-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2015.1050565
Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2012). Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. Political Psychology, 33(3), 395-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00883.x
Petersen, M. B. & Laustsen, L. (2019). Upper-Body Strength and Political Egalitarianism: Twelve Conceptual Replications. Political Psychology, 40(2), 375-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12505
Petersen, M. B. & Skaaning, S. E. (2010). Ultimate Causes of State Formation: The Significance of Biogeography, Diffusion, and Neolithic Revolutions. Historical Social Research, 35(3), 200-226.
Petersen, M. B. (2010). Towards a Folk Psychology of Security: Insights From Evolutionary Psychology. H-Net network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs .
Petersen, M. B., Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2012). To Punish or Repair? Evolutionary Psychology and Lay Intuitions about Modern Criminal Justice. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(6), 682-695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.003
Jensen, N. H. & Petersen, M. B. (2011). To Defer or To Stand Up? How Offender Formidability Affects Third Party Moral Outrage. Evolutionary Psychology, 9(1), 118-136. http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP09118136.pdf
Boyer, P. & Petersen, M. B. (2012). The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as Their Foundation. Journal of Institutional Economics, 8(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137411000300
Bøggild, T. & Petersen, M. B. (2015). The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics. In T. K. Shackelford & R. D. Hansen (Eds.), The Evolution of Morality (pp. 247-276). Springer.
Jensen, C. & Petersen, M. B. (2017). The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care. American Journal of Political Science, 61(1), 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12251
Aarøe, L., Petersen, M. B. & Arceneaux, K. (2017). The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration. American Political Science Review, 111(2), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055416000770
van Leeuwen, F. & Petersen, M. B. (2018). The behavioral immune system is designed to avoid infected individuals, not outgroups. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 226-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.003
Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Sell, A., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2013). The Ancestral Logic of Politics: Upper Body Strength Regulates Men’s Assertion of Self-Interest over Economic Redistribution. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1098-1103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612466415
Jensen, N. H., Petersen, M. B., Høgh-Olesen, H. & Ejstrup, M. (2015). Testing theories about ethnic markers: Ingroup accent facilitates coordination, not cooperation. Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, 26(2), 210-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-015-9229-4
Boyer, P. & Petersen, M. B. (2013). Studying institutions in the context of natural selection: Limits or opportunities? Journal of Institutional Economics, 9(2), 187-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137412000203
Petersen, M. B., Bartusevicius, H. & van Leeuwen, F. (2016). Striving for Democracy? A Psychological Perspective on Democratization and Civil Conflict. APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter, 14(2). http://www.compdem.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/July-2016-APSA-CD-Democratization-and-Civil-Conflict.pdf
Petersen, M. B. (2007). Straf eller rehabilitering? Et studie i evolutionspsykologi, følelser og politisk holdningsdannelse. Politica.
Lopez, A. C., McDermott, R. & Petersen, M. B. (2011). States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics. International Security, 36(2), 48-83.
Petersen, M. B. (2012). Social Welfare as Small-Scale Help: Evolutionary Psychology and the Deservingness Heuristic. American Journal of Political Science, 56(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00545.x
Petersen, M. B., Aarøe, L., Jensen, N. H. & Curry, O. (2014). Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare. Political Psychology, 35(6), 757-773. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12062
Petersen, M. B., Roepstorff, A. & Serritzlew, S. (2009). Social Capital in the Brain? In G. Tinggaard & G. Svendsen (Eds.), Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics (pp. 75-92). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Petersen, M. B. (2018). Reproductive interests and dimensions of political ideology. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.002
Petersen, M. B. (2009). Public Opinion and Evolved Heuristics: The Role of Category-Based Inference. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 9(3), 367-389.
Mundy, J., Hübel, C., Gelernter, J., Levey, D., Murray, R. M., Skelton, M., Stein, M. B., Vassos, E., Breen, G., Coleman, J. R. I. & Million Veteran Program, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
(2022). Psychological trauma and the genetic overlap between posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 52(16), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721000830
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2013). Politik er for de fantasifulde. In C. Jensen (Ed.), Politologisk Årbog (Vol. 2012-13, pp. 73-75). Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2013). Politics in the Mind's Eye: Imagination as a Link between Social and Political Cognition. American Political Science Review, 107(2), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055413000026
Osmundsen, M. & Petersen, M. B. (2017). Political Ideology and Precautionary Reasoning: Testing the Palliative Function of Right-Wing Ideology on Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms. Social Cognition, 35(4), 450-474. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2017.35.4.450
Petersen, M. B., Giessing, A. & Nielsen, J. (2015). Physiological Responses and Partisan Bias: Beyond Self-Reported Measures of Party Identification. PLoS One, 10(5), Article e0126922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126922
Laustsen, L. & Petersen, M. B. (2017). Perceived Conflict and Leader Dominance: Individual and Contextual Factors Behind Preferences for Dominant Leaders. Political Psychology, 38(6), 1083-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12403
Delton, A. W., Petersen, M. B. & Robertson, T. E. (2018). Partisan goals, emotions, and political mobilization: The role of motivated reasoning in pressuring others to vote. The Journal of Politics, 80(3), 890-902. https://doi.org/10.1086/697124
Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F. K., de Barra, M., Becker, D. V., Borovoi, L., Choi, I., Choi, J. A., Consedine, N. S., Conway, A., Conway, J. R., Conway, P., Adoric, V. C., Demirci, D. E., Fernández, A. M., Ferreira, D. C. S., Ishii, K. ... Žeželj, I. (2016). Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 113(44), 12408-12413. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607398113
Delton, A. W., Petersen, M. B., DeScioli, P. & Robertson, T. E. (2018). Need, Compassion, and Support for Social Welfare. Political Psychology, 39(4), 907-924. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12450
Petersen, M. B., Skov, M., Serritzlew, S. & Ramsöy, T. Z. (2013). Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues. Political Behavior, 35(4), 831-854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-012-9213-1
Petersen, M. B. (2013). Moralization as protection against exploitation: do individuals without allies moralize more? Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(2), 78-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.09.006
Petersen, M. B. (2011). Medfødt mistænksomhed: Hvordan et kortspil afslørede menneskets natur. In H. Høgh-Olesen & T. Dalsgaard (Eds.), 20 Psykologiske Eksperimenter - der ændrede vores syn på mennesket (pp. 359-377). Plurafutura Publishing. http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/au/showrecord.jsp?record_id=sb_4466949
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2012). Is the Political Animal a Political Ignorant? Applying Evolutionary Psychology to the Study of Political Attitudes. Evolutionary Psychology, 10(5), 802-817.
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2014). Individual differences in political ideology are effects of adaptive error management. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(3), 324-325. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13002690
Petersen, M. B. (2009). Hvorfor gør vi forskel? Om økonomisk nød i et stenaldersind. In J. Blom-Hansen & J. Elklit (Eds.), Perspektiver på politik: Bidrag til samfundsdebatten (pp. 26-31). Systime Academic.
Aarøe, L. & Petersen, M. B. (2013). Hunger Games: Fluctuations in Blood Glucose Levels Influence Social Welfare Support. Psychological Science, 24(12), 2550-2556. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613495244
Petersen, M. B. (2017). Healthy Out-Group Members Are Represented Psychologically as Infected In-Group Members. Psychological Science, 28(12), 1857-1863. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617728270
Boyer, P. & Petersen, M. B. (2018). Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, 1-51. Article e158. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001960
Petersen, M. B. (2018). Falske nyheders magt: Hvorfor tror vi på dem, hvorfor spreder vi dem? Økonomi og Politik, 91(1), 86-94.
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2015). Evolutionary Theory and Political Behavior. In R. A. Scott & S. M. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0125
Petersen, M. B., Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2010). Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation. In H. Høgh-Olesen (Ed.), Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary & Comparative Perspectives (pp. 72-131). Palgrave Macmillan.
Petersen, M. B. & Kennair, L. E. O. (2009). Evolutionary Political Science: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences. In H. Høgh-Olesen, J. Tønnesvang & P. Bertelsen (Eds.), Human Characteristics (pp. 214-251). Cambridge Scholars Press.
Petersen, M. B. (2015). Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics. Political Psychology, 36(S1), 45-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12237
DeScioli, P., Massenkoff, M., Shaw, A., Petersen, M. B. & Kurzban, R. (2014). Equity or Equality? Moral Judgments Follow the Money. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1797), Article 20142112. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2112
