Publications
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
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
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
Petersen, M. B. (2004). Den generaliserede og den konkrete kriminelle: Om mønstre i generelle og konkrete holdninger til kriminalitet og straf. Politik, (3), 70-81.
Petersen, M. B., Roepstorff, A. & Serritzlew, S. (2009). Social Capital in the Brain? I G. Tinggaard & G. Svendsen (red.), Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics (s. 75-92). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Petersen, M. B. (2007). Straf eller rehabilitering? Et studie i evolutionspsykologi, følelser og politisk holdningsdannelse. Politica.
Petersen, M. B. & Kennair, L. E. O. (2009). Evolutionary Political Science: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences. I H. Høgh-Olesen, J. Tønnesvang & P. Bertelsen (red.), Human Characteristics (s. 214-251). Cambridge Scholars Press.
Petersen, M. B. (2009). Public Opinion and Evolved Heuristics: The Role of Category-Based Inference. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 9(3), 367-389.
Petersen, M. B., Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2010). Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation. I H. Høgh-Olesen (red.), Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary & Comparative Perspectives (s. 72-131). Palgrave Macmillan.
Petersen, M. B. (2009). Hvorfor gør vi forskel? Om økonomisk nød i et stenaldersind. I J. Blom-Hansen & J. Elklit (red.), Perspektiver på politik: Bidrag til samfundsdebatten (s. 26-31). Systime Academic.
Petersen, M. B. (2010). Distinct Emotions, Distinct Domains: Anger, Anxiety and Perceptions of Intentionality. Journal of Politics, 72(2), 357-365.
Petersen, M. B., Slothuus, R., Stubager, R. & Togeby, L. (2011). Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic. European Journal of Political Research, 50(1), 24-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2010.01923.x
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-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Forums, I(1), 57-63.
Petersen, M. B. (2011). Medfødt mistænksomhed: Hvordan et kortspil afslørede menneskets natur. I H. Høgh-Olesen & T. Dalsgaard (red.), 20 Psykologiske Eksperimenter - der ændrede vores syn på mennesket (s. 359-377). Plurafutura Publishing. http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/au/showrecord.jsp?record_id=sb_4466949
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. (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. (2013). Adaptationism and Intuitions about Modern Criminal Justice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(1), 31-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12000568
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. & 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. (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., 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., 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.
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. (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. (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., Giessing, A. & Nielsen, J. (2015). Physiological Responses and Partisan Bias: Beyond Self-Reported Measures of Party Identification. P L o S One, 10(5), Artikel e0126922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126922
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
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., 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. & 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
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. (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. & 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
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
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
Lopez, A. C., McDermott, R. & Petersen, M. B. (2011). States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics. International Security, 36(2), 48-83.
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
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
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
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
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
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
