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Lasse Laustsen

Observed names: Laustsen, L., Laustsen, Lasse, Laustsen, Lasse (Aarhus University, Department Of Political Science); Petersen, Michael Bang (Aarhus University, Department Of Political Science), Laustsen, Lasse; id_orcid 0000-0002-3726-9586
Institution: Aarhus University
ORCID: 0000-0002-3726-9586
Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-3726-9586
OpenAlex ID: A5042340295
Perceived Conflict and Leader Dominance: Individual and Contextual Factors Behind Preferences for Dominant Leaders
2017 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · Political Psychology · 162
The relative weight of character traits in political candidate evaluations: Warmth is more important than competence, leadership and integrity
2017 · Lasse Laustsen, Alexander Bor · Electoral Studies · 138
Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership
2015 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · Evolution and Human Behavior · 135
The unique effects of blatant dehumanization on attitudes and behavior towards Muslim refugees during the European ‘refugee crisis’ across four countries
2017 · Emile Bruneau, Nour Kteily, et al. · European Journal of Social Psychology · 133
Winning Faces Vary by Ideology: How Nonverbal Source Cues Influence Election and Communication Success in Politics
2015 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · Political Communication · 100
Dominant leaders and the political psychology of followership
2019 · Michael Bang Petersen, Lasse Laustsen · Current Opinion in Psychology · 74
Choosing the Right Candidate: Observational and Experimental Evidence that Conservatives and Liberals Prefer Powerful and Warm Candidate Personalities, Respectively
2016 · Lasse Laustsen · Political Behavior · 72
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Decomposing the Relationship Between Candidates’ Facial Appearance and Electoral Success
2013 · Lasse Laustsen · Political Behavior · 63
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Upper‐Body Strength and Political Egalitarianism: Twelve Conceptual Replications
2018 · Michael Bang Petersen, Lasse Laustsen · Political Psychology · 51
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An intra-group perspective on leader preferences: Different risks of exploitation shape preferences for leader facial dominance
2016 · Troels Bøggild, Lasse Laustsen · The Leadership Quarterly · 50
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations
2021 · Mathias Osmundsen, David J. Hendry, et al. · The Journal of Politics · 47
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Vote Choice, Ideology, and Social Dominance Orientation Influence Preferences for Lower Pitched Voices in Political Candidates
2015 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen, et al. · Evolutionary Psychology · 37
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Harsh but Expedient: Dominant Leaders Increase Group Cooperation via Threat of Punishment
2021 · Fan Xuan Chen, Xinyu Zhang, et al. · Psychological Science · 31
Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms
2019 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · The Leadership Quarterly · 26
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When the Party Decides: The Effects of Facial Competence and Dominance on Internal Nominations of Political Candidates
2018 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · Evolutionary Psychology · 24
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Online Tallies and the Context of Politics: How Online Tallies Make Dominant Candidates Appear Competent in Contexts of Conflict
2019 · Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen · American Journal of Political Science · 23
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Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism
2022 · Nicholas Kerry, Laith Al-Shawaf, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 20
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Candidate Evaluations Through the Lens of Adaptive Followership Psychology: How and Why Voters Prefer Leaders Based on Character Traits
2021 · Lasse Laustsen · Political Psychology · 19
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The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalysis and Recommendations
2019 · Mathias Osmundsen, David Hendry, et al. · 17
Presidential, But Not Prime Minister, Candidates With Lower Pitched Voices Stand a Better Chance of Winning the Election in Conservative Countries
2018 · Benjamin Banai, Lasse Laustsen, et al. · Evolutionary Psychology · 14
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Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
2025 · Lasse Laustsen, Xiaotian Sheng, et al. · Evolution and Human Behavior · 11
Is a disease leader attractive? Six tests of whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected follower preferences for attractiveness, health and other traits in political and non-political leaders
2021 · Lasse Laustsen, Asmus Leth Olsen · The Leadership Quarterly · 8
Candidate evaluations across the aisle: Cross‐cultural evidence that out‐partisans value candidate warmth more than in‐partisans
2021 · Alexander Bor, Lasse Laustsen · European Journal of Political Research · 8
What is the folk concept of discrimination? Discriminators and comparators
2024 · Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Søren Serritzlew, et al. · Philosophical Psychology · 6
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Russia's attacks on civilians strengthen Ukrainian resistance
2023 · Henrikas Bartusevičius, Florian van Leeuwen, et al. · PNAS Nexus · 5
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Works count: 108
Citation count: 1,288
H-index: 18
I10-index: 21
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