Publications
Hübel, C., Johansson, T., Mundy, J., Lin, Y., Petersen, L. V., Isomaa, R. & Birgegård, A. (2025). Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder complicates eating disorder treatment: A nationwide study. Psychiatry Research, 351, Artikel 116563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116563
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. & 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. (2018). Falske nyheders magt: Hvorfor tror vi på dem, hvorfor spreder vi dem? Økonomi og Politik, 91(1), 86-94.
Boyer, P. & Petersen, M. B. (2018). Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, 1-51. Artikel e158. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001960
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
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
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
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. & Dawes, C. T. (2017). Assessing Causal Pathways between Physical Formidability and Aggression in Human Males. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.022
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
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
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
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
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
Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., Aarøe, L., Apicella, C. L., Petersen, M. B., Bickham, S. T., Bolyanatz, A., Chavez, B., De Smet, D., Díaz, C., Fančovičová, J., Fux, M., Giraldo-Perez, P., Hu, A., Kamble, S. V., Kameda, T., Li, N. P. ... Zhou, Y. (2016). Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 113(17), 4682–4687. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524993113
Aarøe, L., Osmundsen, M. & Petersen, M. B. (2016). Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUL), Artikel 1038. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01038
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
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
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. & Aarøe, L. (2015). Birth Weight and Social Trust in Adulthood: Evidence for Early Calibration of Social Cognition. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1681-1692. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615595622
Pietraszewski, D., Curry, O., Petersen, M. B., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2015). Constituents of Political Cognition: Race, Party Politics, and the Alliance Detection System. Cognition, 140(July 2015), 24-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.007
Laustsen, L. & Petersen, M. B. (2015). Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4), 286-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.01.001
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
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2015). Evolutionary Theory and Political Behavior. I R. A. Scott & S. M. Kosslyn (red.), 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., Giessing, A. & Nielsen, J. (2015). Physiological Responses and Partisan Bias: Beyond Self-Reported Measures of Party Identification. PLoS One, 10(5), Artikel e0126922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126922
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
Bøggild, T. & Petersen, M. B. (2015). The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics. I T. K. Shackelford & R. D. Hansen (red.), The Evolution of Morality (s. 247-276). Springer.
Aarøe, L. & Petersen, M. B. (2014). Crowding Out Culture: Scandinavians and Americans Agree on Social Welfare in the Face of Deservingness Cues. Journal of Politics, 76(3), 684-697.
Laustsen, L. (2014). Decomposing the Relationship Between Candidates' Facial Appearance and Electoral Success. Political Behavior, 36(4), 777-791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-013-9253-1
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), Artikel 20142112. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2112
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., 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. (2013). Adaptationism and Intuitions about Modern Criminal Justice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(1), 31-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12000568
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. (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., 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. & 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
Petersen, M. B. & Aarøe, L. (2013). Politik er for de fantasifulde. I C. Jensen (red.), Politologisk Årbog (Bind 2012-13, s. 73-75). Hans Reitzels Forlag.
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., 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
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. (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
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
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
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
