Ph.D in Psychology

Currently Postdoc, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Books

  • Michaelsen, P., & Sunstein, C. R. (2023). Default Nudges: From People’s Experiences to Policymaking Implications. Palgrave Macmillan. Purchase link

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • Michaelsen, P., Sundström, A., & Jagers, S. C. (2025). Mass support for conserving 30% of the Earth by 2030: Experimental evidence from five continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2503355122

  • Yehle, L., Michaelsen, P., Harring, N., & Jagers, S. C. (2025). Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake: the effects of (non-)anthropocentric ethical justifications on policy acceptability. Journal of Public Policy, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X24000266

  • Jansson, M., Michaelsen, P., Sonsino, D., & Gärling, T. (2024). Non-professional and professional investors’ trust in financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations and their impact on investments. Accepted for publication in Review of Behavioral Finance, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-07-2023-0191

  • Michaelsen, P. (2024). Transparency and Nudging: An overview and methodological critique of empirical investigations. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-11-. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.7

  • Gärling, T., Michaelsen, P., & Gamble, A. (2022). Overspending on smartphone purchases among Swedish young adults. Nordic Psychology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2022.2085159

  • Michaelsen, P., Nyström, L., Luke., T. J., & Hedesström, M. (2021). Downstream Consequences of Disclosing Defaults: Influences on Perceptions of Choice Architects and Subsequent Behavior. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 5: 1-3, 25-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2021.1983720

  • Michaelsen, P., Johansson, L-O., & Hedesström, M. (2021). Experiencing default nudges: Autonomy, Manipulation and choice-satisfaction as judged by people themselves. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2021.5

  • Gärling, T., Fang, D., Holmen, M., & Michaelsen, P. (2021). Fast and Slow Investments in Asset Markets: Influences on Risk Taking. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 22(1), 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2020.1747071

  • Gärling, T., Fang, D., Holmén, M., & Michaelsen, P. (2020). Financial risk-taking related to individual risk preference, social comparison and competition. Review of Behavioral Finance, 1-16. https://doi-org/10.1108/RBF-11-2019-0153

  • Gärling, T., Michaelsen, P., Gamble, A. (2020). Young adults’ borrowing to purchases of desired consumer products related to present‐biased temporal discounting, attitude towards borrowing and financial involvement and knowledge. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 44, 131– 139. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12552

  • Gamble, A., Gärling, T., & Michaelsen, P. (2019) Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward Borrowing, In J. Carlsson Hauff, T. Gärling, & T. Lindblom (Eds.) Indebtedness in Early Adulthood: Causes and Remedies (pp. 65-87). Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Gamble, A., Gärling, T., & Michaelsen, P. (2019). Young Adults’ Consumption Desires, Feelings of Financial Scarcity and Borrowing, In J. Carlsson Hauff, T. Gärling, & T. Lindblom (Eds.) Indebtedness in Early Adulthood: Causes and Remedies (pp. 89-108). Palgrave Macmillan.

Selected Work in Progress:

  • Michaelsen, P. Evaluating people’s subjective experiences could increase the policy relevance of behavior change interventions.

  • Yehle, L., Sundström, A., Michaelsen, P. & Jagers, S. C. Public support for military conservation: Understanding public opinion to the ‘war on poachers’ in three countries.

  • Michaelsen, P. & Luke, T. J. When do policy interventions work best in the dark? A model of the influence of transparency on behavior

  • Michaelsen, P., Simonovic, D., Sandlund, I., & Bergquist, M. Subjective experiences of behaviorally informed interventions: Insights from a field experiment aiming to reduce food waste at a hotel breakfast buffet.

  • Hedesström, M., Luke, T. J., Michaelsen, P., Nyström, L., & Johansson, L-O. What’s the net benefit of a nudge? Exploring behavioral spillover from choosing a default. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/dq9em/