Klaus J Hansen

Biographic Data

ID252990
NAMEKlaus J Hansen
GIVEN NAMESKlaus J
FAMILY NAMEHansen
SIGNATUREHANSEN K J
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University
ORCID0000-0002-1004-503X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS63
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Flattering Social Groups

    Open AccessCamilla Bjarnøe, Klaus J Hansen et al.ARTICLEPolitical Behavior2026

    Political parties and candidates appeal to social groups to gain their support. Yet, we lack knowledge about what makes such group appeals effective. This article tests novel explanations for the success of in-group appeals. Specifically, we investigate (1) how voters respond to social group appeals that flatter them by describing their group’s positive qualities (warmth and competence), and (2) whether voters identifying with high or low status …

  • Greed, Envy, and Admiration

    Open AccessKlaus J HansenARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review2023Cited by: 16References: 73

    Research on public opinion about economic redistribution has made important progress by incorporating the psychological microfoundation that shapes support for redistribution to the poor. However, one piece is missing: the microfoundation shaping support for redistribution from the rich. I provide a novel theory about this facet of redistributive attitudes and how it is distinct. Observational data from three nationally representative samples in …

  • Citizens’ Aversion to Pay Raises for Politicians

    Open AccessRasmus T Pedersen, Klaus J Hansen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Public…2022Cited by: 6References: 24

    Citizens value competence in politicians. However, while offering high pay is a key strategy when recruiting competent candidates in the job market, most citizens are highly averse to paying politicians higher salaries. We argue that this aversion arises from one fundamental concern among citizens: self-interested politicians. Using data from a large-scale preregistered survey experiment, we show that citizens are affected by the argument that hi…

  • Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State

    Open AccessElizabeth Bell, Julian Christensen et al.ARTICLEThe American Review of Public…2022Cited by: 17References: 58

    Public administration researchers have found that unfavorable state actions can trigger negative emotions in citizens, but the behavioral consequences of these emotions have been understudied. We draw on psychological insights to predict how discrete emotional responses to unfavorable interactions with the state (specifically: administrative decisions to deny access to public benefits) will predict citizens’ coping behaviors, such as whether they…

  • Revisiting the Emotion–Risk Interaction

    Open AccessCasper Sakstrup, Klaus J HansenARTICLEInternational Journal of Public…2020Cited by: 1References: 12

    A key claim in the study of emotions is that anger makes people less responsive to risks, whereas fear makes people more responsive. Although risk is a fundamental concern in the area of military conflict, no studies have directly tested whether anger and fear moderate the impact of risk on public support for war. We test this key claim with casualty risks as our case. Across five experiments (N = 4,559), utilizing well-established treatment mate…

  • Who Cares If They Need Help? The Deservingness Heuristic, Humanitarianism, and Welfare Opinions

    Open AccessKlaus J Hansen, Kristina Jessen HansenARTICLEPolitical Psychology2019Cited by: 17References: 44

    Citizens’ welfare opinions are highly susceptible to cues about welfare recipients’ deservingness. Extant research argues that this deservingness heuristic is a universal feature of human help‐giving psychology, implying that all citizens, regardless of their values, are evenly affected by deservingness cues. This article suggests that the deservingness heuristic is much more conditional than previously appreciated. Specifically, its influence on…

  • House of Mourning

    Klaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of American History2009

    On September 11, 1857, there occurred the cold-blooded massacre of at least 120 men, women, and children traveling in a wagon train from Arkansas via Salt Lake City southward along the “Mormon corridor” to California. At a mountain oasis in southern Utah on September 7, 1857, the travelers had come under attack by what they believed to be Indians and fended them off for five days. When, on the morning of September 11, Mormon militia appeared carr…

  • What Hath God Wrought

    Open AccessKlaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of History2008

  • By Birth or Consent

    Open AccessKlaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of History2006

  • Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region

    Klaus J Hansen, Ethan R YorgasonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2005

    Journal Article Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region Get access Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region. By Yorgason Ethan R.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50.) Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 84–85, https://d…

  • Tocqueville

    Open AccessKlaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of History2003

    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xciii, 722 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America and Two Essays on America, translated by Gerald Bevan, with an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick and Notes by Jeff Seliger. New York, N.Y., Penguin, 2003. lii, 896 pp. $10.00 U.S. (pape…

  • The Liberal Tradition in America

    Klaus J Hansen, Hans VorländerARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Liberal Tradition in America: A German View Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen member of the History Department Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1397–1408, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674734 Published: 01 March 2001

  • The Fragility of Freedom

    Open AccessKlaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of History1996

  • Camp Floyd and the Mormons

    Klaus J Hansen, Donald R Moorman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War. By Donald R. Moorman. With Gene A. Sessions. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. xvi, 332 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87480394-2.) Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1091–1092, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • The Utopian Alternative

    Klaus J Hansen, Carl J GuarneriARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992Cited by: 4

  • Mormons and the Bible

    Klaus J Hansen, Philip L BarlowARTICLEJournal of American History1992Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion. By Philip L. Barlow. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxx + 251 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-19-506233-7.) Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 656–657, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • The Arrogance of Race

    Klaus J Hansen, George M FredricksonARTICLELabour / Le Travail1991

  • Mormon Enigma

    Klaus J Hansen, Linda King Newwell et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith: Prophet's Wife, “Elect Lady,” Polygamy's Foe, 1804–1879. By Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. (New York: Doubleday, 1984. xiii + 394 pp. Map, illustrations, charts, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, I…

  • Religion in North America

    Klaus J HansenARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1983

    Journal Article RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA Get access Heber C Kimball Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer By Stanley B Kimball University of Illinois Press, 1981 343 pages $17 95 Klaus J Hansen Klaus J Hansen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 1, March 1983, Page 153, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LI.1.153 Published: 01 March 1983

  • Witnesses to a Vanishing America

    Klaus J Hansen, Lee Clark MitchellARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1983

    Journal Article Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response Get access Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. By Mitchell Lee Clark. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981. xvii + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.50.) Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…

  • Klaus Hansen's True View of Mormonism

    Mario S De Pillis, Klaus J HansenARTICLEReviews in American History1982

  • Land of Savagery, Land of Promise

    Klaus J Hansen, Ray Allen BillingtonARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    Journal Article Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century. By Ray Allen Billington. (New York: Norton, 1981. xv + 364 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. $18.95.) Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, J…

  • Mormonism and the American Experience

    Robert Flanders, Robert Bruce Flanders et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    Journal Article Mormonism and the American Experience. By Klaus J. Hansen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xx + 257 pp. Notes, note on sources, and index. $15.00.) Get access Robert Bruce Flanders Robert Bruce Flanders Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 420–421, https://doi.org/10.2307/18938…

  • Mormonism and the American Experience

    Robert S Fogarty, Klaus J HansenARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1982

    Journal Article Mormonism and the American Experience Get access Mormonism and the American Experience. By Hansen Klaus J.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xviii + 257 pp. Notes, note on sources, index. $15.00.) Robert S. Fogarty Robert S. Fogarty Antioch College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1982, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Mormonism and the American Experience

    Armand L Mau, Armand L Mauss et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1982