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Adaptationism and intuitions about modern criminal justice ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

Assessing causal pathways between physical formidability and aggression in human males

Birth Weight and Social Trust in Adulthood: Evidence for Early Calibration of Social Cognition.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Citizens as Complicits: Distrust in Politicians and Biased Social Dissemination of Political Information

scientific article published in 2020

Communicate hope to motivate the public during the COVID-19 pandemic ⬇️

Compliance without fear: Individual‐level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic

scientific article

Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system.

scientific article

Corrigendum: Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust

scientific article published on December 2016

Crowding Out Culture: Scandinavians and Americans Agree on Social Welfare in the Face of Deservingness Cues

article

Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic

article published in 2010

Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies

scientific article

Did the European suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine decrease vaccine acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic?

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic

scientific article published on 8 December 2022

Disgust and political attitudes Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Distinct Emotions, Distinct Domains: Anger, Anxiety and Perceptions of Intentionality

Distrust As a Disease Avoidance Strategy: Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Regulate Generalized Social Trust

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Do conspiracy theories efficiently signal coalition membership? An experimental test using the "Who Said What?" design

scientific article published in 2022

Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership

scholarly article by Lasse Laustsen & Michael Bang Petersen published July 2015 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Does face mask use elicit risk-compensation? Quasi-experimental evidence from Denmark during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

scientific article

Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Dominance-driven political orientations predict political violence in non-WEIRD and WEIRD samples

Dominant leaders and the political psychology of followership

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Epidemic modelling of monitoring public behavior using surveys during pandemic-induced lockdowns

Equity or equality? Moral judgments follow the money

scientific article published in December 2014

Evolutionary Political Psychology

Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics

article

Evolutionary Theory and Political Behavior

Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration

scientific article published on 12 April 2023

Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Freedom for All? The Strength and Limits of Political Tolerance

Frihed for Loke såvel som for Thor? ⬇️

scientific article published on 1 January 2007

Genetic predictors of educational attainment and intelligence test performance predict voter turnout

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Healthy Out-Group Members Are Represented Psychologically as Infected In-Group Members

scientific article published on October 2017

Hostility in political debates online and offline: Who are the offenders - and who are the victims?

scientific article published on 4 May 2022

How and why disgust responses underlie prejudice

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Hunger games: fluctuations in blood glucose levels influence support for social welfare

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Hvordan fastholdes tilliden under samfundskriser? ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 March 2024

Increased pressure lowered trust among unvaccinated during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Effects of the announcement of reintroducing vaccination passports in Denmark

scientific article published on 16 January 2024

Individual differences in political ideology are effects of adaptive error management

scientific article published in June 2014

Information about herd immunity through vaccination and empathy promote COVID-19 vaccination intentions

scientific article published in February 2022

Is the Political Animal Politically Ignorant? Applying Evolutionary Psychology to the Study of Political Attitudes ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 2012

Malaria morbidity and mortality following introduction of a universal policy of artemisinin-based treatment for malaria in Papua, Indonesia: A longitudinal surveillance study.

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Monitoring Public Behavior During a Pandemic Using Surveys: Proof-of-Concept Via Epidemic Modelling ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 October 2022

Moralization as protection against exploitation: do individuals without allies moralize more?

Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination

Mortality attributable to Plasmodium vivax malaria: a clinical audit from Papua, Indonesia

scientific article

Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues

article

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations

scientific article

Need, Compassion, and Support for Social Welfare

Pandemic fatigue fueled political discontent during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 29 November 2022

Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy

book published in 2014

Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Partisan Goals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization: The Role of Motivated Reasoning in Pressuring Others to Vote

Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter

scientific article

Partisans use emotions as social pressure: Feeling anger and gratitude at exiters and recruits in political groups

scientific article published on 3 June 2021

Perceived Conflict and Leader Dominance: Individual and Contextual Factors Behind Preferences for Dominant Leaders

Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries

Physiological responses and partisan bias: beyond self-reported measures of party identification

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Political Ideology and Precautionary Reasoning: Testing the Palliative Function of Right-Wing Ideology on Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling

scientific article published in 2022

Political ideologies as social strategies: does ideological variation predict behavioral variation in cooperative dilemmas?

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Political repression motivates anti-government violence

scientific article published in June 2023

Politics in the Mind's Eye: Imagination as a Link between Social and Political Cognition

article by Michael Bang Petersen & LENE AARøe published 8 April 2013 in American Political Science Review

Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning

Protective behavior during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark

Public Opinion and Evolved Heuristics: The Role of Category-Based Inference

Public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines: cross-national evidence on levels and individual-level predictors using observational data

scientific article

Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 2020

scientific article published in 2021

Reproductive interests and dimensions of political ideology

Smittebeskyttende adfærd under anden bølge af covid-19 pandemien i Danmark ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 November 2022

Social Capital in the Brain?

Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare

Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare

Social Welfare as Small‐Scale Help: Evolutionary Psychology and the Deservingness Heuristic ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

scientific article published on 11 May 2023

States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics

article

Studying institutions in the context of natural selection: limits or opportunities?

Success or Failure? A Critical but Optimistic Evaluation of Biopolitics

Support for border security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence on levels and predictors from eight Western democracies in 2020

scientific article

Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers: Ingroup Accent Facilitates Coordination, Not Cooperation.

scientific article published in June 2015

The Ancestral Logic of Politics

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Partisan Preferences in Modern Democracies: Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Voting for Socially Conservative Parties

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration

The COVID-19 pandemic eroded system support but not social solidarity

scientific article published in 2023

The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care

article

The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood

The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics

article published in 2016

The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence

scientific article

The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis

scientific article

The ancestral logic of politics: Upper body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution

The behavioral immune system is designed to avoid infected individuals, not outgroups

The event-driven nature of online political hostility: How offline political events make online interactions more hostile

scientific article published in November 2023

The evolutionary psychology of mass mobilization: how disinformation and demagogues coordinate rather than manipulate

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

The evolutionary psychology of mass politics

The naturalness of (many) social institutions: evolved cognition as their foundation

The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity ⬇️

journal article from 'Electoral Studies' published in 2021

The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors

scientific article published on 17 February 2023

To Defer or to Stand up? How Offender Formidability Affects Third Party Moral Outrage ⬇️

scientific article published on March 16, 2011

To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice.

scientific article published on November 2012

Transparent communication about negative features of COVID-19 vaccines decreases acceptance but increases trust

scientific article

Upper-Body Strength and Political Egalitarianism: Twelve Conceptual Replications

article published in 2018

Vote Choice, Ideology, and Social Dominance Orientation Influence Preferences for Lower Pitched Voices in Political Candidates

What is seen and what is not seen in the economy: An effect of our evolved psychology

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

When the Party Decides: The Effects of Facial Competence and Dominance on Internal Nominations of Political Candidates

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare

scientific article published on 28 May 2012

Will the COVID-19 pandemic worsen the obesity epidemic?

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Willingness to Take the Booster Vaccine in a Nationally Representative Sample of Danes

scientific article published on 10 March 2022

Winning Faces Vary by Ideology: How Nonverbal Source Cues Influence Election and Communication Success in Politics

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