En fremragende afslutning på en god dag på Folkemødet Og Stinus Lindgreen ved åbenbart hvad folket vil have man skal spille: Noget med Slayer! 🤘

”Demokrati er ikke noget, der er givet af Gud. Det er noget, vi skal pleje og passe.” Det er netop det, forskningsprojektet Magtudredningen 2.0 med Michael Bang Petersen som forskningsleder bidrager til. Hør ham og Søren Gade, formand for folketinget, om demokratiets udfordringer #fmdk

.Michael Bang Petersen: En balance hvordan videnskaben skal inddrages i politik. Fx blev vi i corona-task force gruppen spurgt til hvad der skulle åbnes først under corona. Vi lægger viden frem og så må politikerne træffe #dkpol beslutningerne #fmdk #forskpol

Jeg udtaler mig i Dagbladet Information om de nye kriseanbefalinger. Det ligner, at myndighederne har lært kommunikationslektien fra corona: At borgerne kan håndtere den barske sandhed. Læs her m. gavelink: information.dk/indland/2024/0…

Job opportunity: Our lab manager Marc Hye-Knudsen is starting a Ph.D. here at Aarhus Universitet Aarhus BSS, so we are looking for a new lab manager. See the job posting here (in Danish)👇 bss.au.dk/om-aarhus-bss/…

🎙️Podcast: Hvordan kan videnskab spille en større rolle i #dkpol? Hør Connie Hedegaard, Christina Egelund, Michael Bang Petersen & Sigge Winther debattere, hvorfor forskere er centrale, når fremtidens policy-værktøjer skal udvikles. Debat fra årets #fmdk👉bit.ly/3xmImAp #forskpol #dkforsk

Our theories of democratic erosion place the focus on powerful presidents who concentrate power in their hands and abuse their power. Today we can add that democratic erosion is also enabled by presidents who do not know when to call it quits and let others continue the fight.

🔥Are people who claim to moralize facts, data & logical thinking less likely to share hostile and false political news? No, they might be *more* likely to do so! 🤯 New Open Access paper at Political Communication (Political Communication 📓) with Michael Bang Petersen "Moralization of

The “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are…checks notes…more likely to share false and hostile news. Moralizing rationality is a form of status seeking, rather than a commitment to finding the truth. The cure seems to be intellectual humility.

People who engage in political interactions on social media are generally hostile, both offline and online, and they gain visibility in social media environments. Great study from Michael Bang Petersen and Alexander Bor: cambridge.org/core/journals/… #psychology #politicalhostility

Would people be less inclined to share false news if they moralized the value of using logic and evidence and ? No, status seeking means it’s quite the contrary, study by @a_marie_sci & @m_b_petersen suggests. Intellectual humility is the best protection: buff.ly/4cPHumK

Alperne tårner sig op i horisonten, og det giver os mulighed for at se en bjergetape live i TdF for første gang 💛 Er der nogle eksperter med gode råd? 🙏 Hvornår lukker ruten, så man ikke kan krydse vejen på vej til bjerget? Og hvor tidligt skal man indfinde sig? Vi har øje

Vi satser på at vi gav Cort den sidste energi til finalen 🩵

Hvorfor er den politiske samtale på sociale medier så fjendtlig? "Forskningen i de sociale medier er stadig i sin vorden, men det vi allerede ved, stemmer ikke altid overens med det, man ofte hører i den offentlige debat." Læs mit essay i Magtudredningen 2.0's essay-serie her:

Our comprehensive study on questionable research practices (QRP) is finally published Michael Bang Petersen, Niels Mejlgaard, Jens Peter Andersen, Emil Bargmann Madsen, N. Allum, B. Zachariae (PRINT project) 🧵(1/7) #PLOSONE: Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

We often hear that questionable research practices (p-hacking etc.) reflect system-level factors such as the "publish or perish" academic culture. BUT: one intriguing finding from our large-scale project on questionable research practices (👇) is that the individual matters a

Another datapoint showing @danwilliamsphi’s latest article was, predictably, correct: there are people who will always look for reasons to make things burn (Vin Arceneaux, Tim Gravelle, Michael Bang Petersen, Jason Reifler, Thomas Scotto & Mathias Osmundsen of course wrote a paper on this)

Most misinformation online comes from a small group of "superspreaders," Jay Van Bavel, PhD explained last week at #APA2024. Learn more about why we believe, share, and act on false information: at.apa.org/nvd #facts #truth #socialmedia #psychology

"Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem" by Tanja Marie Hansen, Lasse Lindekilde, Simon Karg, Michael Bang Petersen & Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #OpenAccess