Daniel Västfjäll

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
202 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Daniel Västfjäll is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Västfjäll has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 57 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 55 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Västfjäll's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (32 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (31 papers). Daniel Västfjäll is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (32 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (31 papers). Daniel Västfjäll collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Austria. Daniel Västfjäll's co-authors include Patrik N. Juslin, Paul Slovic, Ellen Peters, Gustav Tinghög, C. K. Mertz, Stephan Dickert, Kenny Skagerlund, Arvid Erlandsson, Tommy Gärling and Mendel Kleiner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Västfjäll

193 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms

2008 1.1k citations Daniel Västfjäll et al. profile →
Numeracy and Decision Making

2006 863 citations Ellen Peters, Daniel Västfjäll et al. profile →
Does self-control predict financial behavior and financial well-being?

2017 320 citations Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög et al. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance profile →
Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries

2022 80 citations Stephan Dickert, Kimin Eom et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Västfjäll Sweden	48	3.5k	2.4k	1.8k	1.7k	988	202	8.8k
Peter J. Rentfrow United Kingdom	49	2.6k 0.8×	5.1k 2.1×	4.8k 2.7×	3.2k 1.9×	139 0.1×	126	15.1k
Ellen J. Langer United States	51	1.8k 0.5×	4.1k 1.7×	3.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	150	14.0k
Gordon D. A. Brown United Kingdom	50	5.1k 1.5×	1.4k 0.6×	923 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	763 0.8×	169	9.9k
Justin Kruger United States	27	1.4k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	65	10.4k
Neil Charness United States	50	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	219 0.2×	217	12.0k
Lewis R. Goldberg United States	60	1.7k 0.5×	8.5k 3.5×	5.2k 2.9×	6.2k 3.8×	687 0.7×	135	24.7k
David Dunning United States	57	3.2k 0.9×	4.5k 1.8×	4.7k 2.6×	2.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	147	16.5k
Phillip L. Ackerman United States	57	1.9k 0.5×	4.4k 1.8×	2.0k 1.1×	5.4k 3.3×	245 0.2×	149	15.0k
Kevin R. Murphy United States	60	2.6k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	283 0.3×	206	15.3k
Leif D. Nelson United States	32	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.6×	1.9k 1.2×	861 0.9×	77	10.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Västfjäll

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Västfjäll

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Cutler, Jo, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2025). Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 148–148.

Barrafrem, Kinga, Daniel Västfjäll, & Gustav Tinghög. (2024). Financial Homo Ignorans: Development and validation of a scale to measure individual differences in financial information ignorance. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. 42. 100936–100936. 5 indexed citations

Mayiwar, Lewend, Erkin Asutay, Gustav Tinghög, Daniel Västfjäll, & Kinga Barrafrem. (2024). Determinants of digital well-being. AI & Society. 40(4). 3063–3073. 5 indexed citations

Asutay, Erkin, et al.. (2023). A causal link between mental imagery and affect-laden perception of climate change related risks. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10081–10081. 9 indexed citations

Erlandsson, Arvid, et al.. (2023). The potential and pitfalls of unit asking in reducing scope insensitivity. Judgment and Decision Making. 18. 3 indexed citations

Erlandsson, Arvid, et al.. (2023). Beneficiary effects in prosocial decision making: Understanding unequal valuations of lives. European Review of Social Psychology. 35(2). 293–340. 4 indexed citations

Kogut, Tehila, et al.. (2022). Thinking, good and bad? Deliberative thinking and the singularity effect in charitable giving. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(1). 14–30. 12 indexed citations

Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Gabriela M. Jiga‐Boy, et al.. (2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(3). 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Persson, Emil, Arvid Erlandsson, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, & Gustav Tinghög. (2022). The prominence effect in health-care priority setting. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(6). 1379–1391. 2 indexed citations

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Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Alex F. C. Flores, et al.. (2022). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce other people’s health risks during COVID-19. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac218–pgac218. 3 indexed citations

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Slovic, Paul, Daniel Västfjäll, Arvid Erlandsson, & Robin Gregory. (2017). Iconic photographs and the ebb and flow of empathic response to humanitarian disasters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(4). 640–644. 115 indexed citations

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Asutay, Erkin, et al.. (2012). Emoacoustics: A Study of the Psychoacoustical and Psychological Dimensions of Emotional Sound Design. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 28 indexed citations

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Väljamäe, Aleksander, Pontus Larsson, Daniel Västfjäll, & Mendel Kleiner. (2009). Auditory Landmarks Enhance Circular Vection in Multimodal Virtual Reality. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 16 indexed citations

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Tajadura‐Jiménez, Ana, Aleksander Väljamäe, & Daniel Västfjäll. (2008). Self-Representation in Mediated Environments: The Experience of Emotions Modulated by Auditory-Vibrotactile Heartbeat. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 11(1). 33–38. 21 indexed citations

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Västfjäll, Daniel, Ellen Peters, & Paul Slovic. (2008). Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster. Judgment and Decision Making. 3(1). 64–72. 80 indexed citations

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Kleiner, Mendel, et al.. (2006). Sound quality aspects of small computer fans. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Gärling, Tommy, Daniel Västfjäll, & M Kleiner. (2004). Preference for mood, emotional reaction, and anticipated emotional reaction. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Västfjäll, Daniel. (2003). The Subjective Sense of Presence, Emotion Recognition, and Experienced Emotions in Auditory Virtual Environments. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 6(2). 181–188. 71 indexed citations

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Västfjäll, Daniel, Pontus Larsson, & Mendel Kleiner. (2002). Emotion and Auditory Virtual Environments: Affect-Based Judgments of Music Reproduced with Virtual Reverberation Times. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 5(1). 19–32. 39 indexed citations

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Larsson, Pontus, Daniel Västfjäll, & Mendel Kleiner. (2001). The Actor-Observer Effect in Virtual Reality Presentations. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 4(2). 239–246. 45 indexed citations

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