Michael Bang Petersen

@M_B_Petersen

Professor of Political Science & director of The Politics and Evolution Lab. Doing research on the evolutionary psychology of politics.

Aarhus University
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2012.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 28. sij

    In 1927, Harold Laswell wrote an article with this gem: "The ever-present function of propaganda in modern life is in large measure attributable to the social disorganization which has been precipitated by the rapid advent of technological changes." Link:

  2. 24. sij

    : asks how toxic Facebook debates would be if everybody commented? The answer: Not very! Self-selection is major source of online political hostility. And those toxic comments receive more likes!

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  3. 24. sij

    : talks about social sorting in US politics and how it fuels partisan negative affect and, ultimately, violent extremism.

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  4. 24. sij

    : Great talk by on how hard it is to counter online hate speech. It is difficult to detect in automated ways and interventions have limited effects

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  5. 24. sij

    Very important advice from Hogg on how to create a more peaceful society: Take feelings of marginalization seriously.

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  6. 24. sij

    : Day 2 is underway and Mike Hogg speaks about how self-uncertainty underlies online political hostility

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  7. 23. sij

    : reports new evidence that “fake news” in the mind of Americans is simply news from the other side of the political spectrum:

  8. 23. sij

    : The problem with misinformation is not that they don’t know what is true but that it does affect their political preferences.

  9. 23. sij
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  10. 23. sij

    : talks about how to move from tone to substance when analyzing online political incivility. Key points here:

  11. 23. sij
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  12. 23. sij

    The conference is off the ground, launching the . 🎉 First keynote is Diana Mutz on how to assess incivility in online and offline discourse.

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  13. 21. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima i sljedećem broju korisnika:

    I live to serve, r=-.12

  14. 21. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima i sljedećem broju korisnika:

    Here are the results for Item 8, on a 1-7 scale (r=-.19):

  15. 21. sij

    Fight your biases: support for political violence is *not* higher among conservatives in US. It is higher among liberals. Data from , N=1,513 and r=-.18. DV is 's measure of violent activism. Example of biased argument is here:

  16. 15. sij

    We did a survey on . Subjects completed an 8-item scale. We counted their clicks using . 30 % of the sample clicked 8 times. 65 % reconsidered (clicked randomly?) up to 46 times. 5 % clicked <8 times, altho responses were forced. This seems bad, right?

  17. 14. sij

    Did the measures in these two studies then predict political ideology? No, they didn't. In fact, only the data from two publications showed significant correlations with social conservatism. The original study - and a follow-up publication using the *same* data. [7/11]

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  18. 14. sij

    Is this a problem of just our data? No. We collected data from 7 published studies including the seminal study. Only two studies (and not the original Science study) fared better in terms of measurement. These two studies used a method to remove signal drift. [6/11]

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  19. 14. sij

    One possibility: The association between feelings of threat and ideology is particular for the US. But we found that self-reported threat was equally strongly related to social conservatism in both Denmark and United States. So, something else must be going on. [4/11]

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  20. 14. sij

    We conducted replications with two of the original authors in Aarhus, Denmark and Lincoln, Nebraska. We also assessed EDA reactions to disgusting, positive and neutral pictures. Results were mixed: No association of threat EDA and ideology in Denmark. The question: Why? [3/11]

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