Michael Bang Petersen

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

Stefan Pfattheicher, Laila Nockur, Robert Böhm et al. · Psychological Science · 2020 · 540 citations · Full text

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

Mathias Osmundsen, Alexander Bor, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup et al. · American Political Science Review · 2021 · 512 citations

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

Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager et al. · European Journal of Political Research · 2010 · 304 citations

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

Marie Fly Lindholt, Frederik Juhl Jørgensen, Alexander Bor et al. · BMJ Open · 2021 · 293 citations · Full text

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

Michael Bang Petersen · American Journal of Political Science · 2011 · 291 citations