Patrik Michaelsen
About Patrik Michaelsen
Background
Ph.D. from Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. Postdoc researcher at the Department of Political Science 2023-
Research interest
I am curious about how individuals make decisions, and in particular what individuals think about attempts at influencing their decision making and behavior. Primarily, I study applications in the environmental domain. Examples of focus areas in my research are public acceptance for environmental policy interventions, individuals’ experiences of policy interventions (in relation to ethics and welfare), and how increased transparency about policy interventions such as nudges affect effectiveness and people’s evaluations of them.
Selected works
Michaelsen, P. & Sunstein, C. R. (2023). Default nudges: From people’s experiences to policymaking implications. Palgrave Macmillan. Link
Michaelsen, P. (2023). Transparency and nudging: An overview and methodological critique of empirical investigations. Link
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Default Nudges: From People's Experiences to Policymaking
Implications
Patrik Michaelsen, Cass R. Sunstein
2023 -
Overspending on smartphone purchases among Swedish young
adults
Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen, Amelie Gamble
Nordic Psychology - 2022 -
Fast and slow investments in asset markets: Influences on risk
taking
Tommy Gärling, Dawei Fang, Martin Holmén, Patrik Michaelsen
Journal of Behavioral Finance - 2021 -
Downstream consequences of disclosing defaults: influences on perceptions of choice architects and subsequent
behavior
Patrik Michaelsen, Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Martin Hedesström
Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology - 2021 -
Experiencing default nudges: autonomy, manipulation, and choice-satisfaction as judged by people
themselves
Patrik Michaelsen, Lars-Olof Johansson, Martin Hedesström
Behavioural Public Policy - 2021 -
Experiences and Perceptions of Default
Nudges
Patrik Michaelsen
2021 -
Financial risk-taking related to individual risk preference, social comparison and
competition
Tommy Gärling, Dawei Fang, Martin Holmén, Patrik Michaelsen
Review of Behavioral Finance - 2021 -
On Why We Should Care about People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Behavior Change
Interventions
Patrik Michaelsen
6th Annual Center for Collective Action Research Conference. Gothenburg: 17-18 June 2021 - 2021 -
Can Nudging Green Behaviour Damage People's Motivation to Engage in
It?
Ylva Andersson, Timothy Luke, Patrik Michaelsen
6th Annual Center for Collective Action Research Conference. Gothenburg: 17-18 June 2021 - 2021 -
In a future nudge dystopia, people may be perceived as less competent and accountable for their
actions
Patrik Michaelsen, Ylva Andersson, Amanda Lindkvist, Lisa Olsson
41st Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Virtual: 9-12 December - 2020 -
Young adults’ borrowing to purchases of desired consumer products related to present‐biased temporal discounting, attitude towards borrowing and financial involvement and
knowledge
Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen, Amelie Gamble
International Journal of Consumer Studies - 2020 -
Young Adults’ Consumption Desires, Feelings of Financial Scarcity and
Borrowing
Amelie Gamble, Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen
Indebtedness in Early Adulthood: Causes and Remedies - 2019 -
Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward
Borrowing
Amelie Gamble, Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen
Indebtedness in Early Adulthood: Causes and Remedies - 2019 -
The Claim that Confidence Can Predict Accuracy in Deception Detection is
Premature
Timothy Luke, Karl Ask, Patrik Michaelsen, Lina Nyström
40th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Montreal: 15-18 November. - 2019 -
Downstream consequences of disclosing nudges: How increased transparency affects the effectiveness and perceptions of
interventions
Patrik Michaelsen, Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Lars-Olof Johansson, Martin Hedesström
40th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Montreal: 15-18 November. - 2019 -
Increasing transparency may improve net effects of default
nudges
Lina Nyström, Patrik Michaelsen, Timothy Luke, Martin Hedesström
40th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Montreal: 15-18 November 2019. - 2019 -
A demonstration of positive nudge-induced behavioral
spillover
Martin Hedesström, Patrik Michaelsen, Lina Nyström, Timothy Luke, Lars-Olof Johansson
40th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Montreal: 15-18 November 2019. - 2019 -
Does transparency solve the ethical problems of subtle behavioral
interventions?
Patrik Michaelsen
4th Annual Center for Collective Action Research Conference. Gothenburg: 18-19 June 2018. - 2019 -
Fast and Slow Investments in Asset Markets: Influences on Risk
Taking
Tommy Gärling, Dawei Fang, Martin Holmén, Patrik Michaelsen
Behavioral Finance Working Group Conference. London: 6-7 June 2019 - 2019 -
Do nudges respect autonomy? The people's
perspective
Patrik Michaelsen
3rd Annual Center for Collective Action Research Conference,. Gothenburg: 18-19 June 2018. - 2018 -
Influencing behavioral spillover from nudges through
feedback
Patrik Michaelsen, Magnus Bergquist, Andreas Nilsson, Lars-Olof Johansson, P. Wesley Schultz, Martin Hedesström
39th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. New Orleans: 16-19 November 2018. - 2018 -
Factors influencing young adults' choices of method of paying for
smartphones
Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen, Amelie Gamble
SABE/IAREP Conference. London: 19-22 July 2018. - 2018 -
Financial risk taking related to individual risk preference, social comparison, and
competition
Tommy Gärling, Dawei Fang, Martin Holmen, Patrik Michaelsen
Behavioral Finance Working Group Conference. London: 12-13 June 2017 - 2017 -
Experiencing Nudges: Choice Autonomy, Situational Intrusion and Choice Satisfaction as Judged by People
Themselves
Patrik Michaelsen, Lars-Olof Johansson, Martin Hedesström
38th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Vancouver: 10-13 November 2017. - 2017 -
Environmental, Autonomous and Satisfied: Experimental Evidence for Positive Experiences of Green
Nudges
Patrik Michaelsen, Lars-Olof Johansson, Martin Hedesström
32nd annual meeting of the Swedish Area Group in Environmental Psychology (SAGEP). Uppsala: 6-7 November - 2017 -
From desire to despair: Scarcity mindset and young adults’ borrowing to purchases of consumer
products
Tommy Gärling, Patrik Michaelsen
SABE/IAREP Conference: Behavioural insights in research and policy making. Wageningen University, 8-10 July 2016 - 2016