Sofía Seinfeld

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sofía Seinfeld is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofía Seinfeld has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Social Psychology, 12 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sofía Seinfeld's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (5 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (4 papers). Sofía Seinfeld is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (5 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (4 papers). Sofía Seinfeld collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Italy. Sofía Seinfeld's co-authors include Mel Slater, Tabitha C. Peck, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, María V. Sánchez-Vives, Jordi Ortiz‐Gil, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Jörg Müller, David Borland, Tiare Feuchtner and Béatrice de Gelder and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Sofía Seinfeld

20 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias

2013 583 citations Tabitha C. Peck, Sofía Seinfeld et al. Consciousness and Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofía Seinfeld Spain	13	699	609	484	175	132	20	1.3k
Domna Banakou Spain	15	1.3k 1.9×	811 1.3×	625 1.3×	201 1.1×	212 1.6×	32	1.8k
Anna Felnhofer Austria	23	492 0.7×	451 0.7×	216 0.4×	305 1.7×	258 2.0×	63	1.6k
Patrice Renaud Canada	19	562 0.8×	409 0.7×	382 0.8×	163 0.9×	362 2.7×	49	1.7k
Jane Lessiter United Kingdom	7	732 1.0×	258 0.4×	227 0.5×	115 0.7×	121 0.9×	15	1.0k
Dominik Gall Germany	12	710 1.0×	310 0.5×	264 0.5×	51 0.3×	66 0.5×	21	1.0k
David-Paul Pertaub United Kingdom	5	518 0.7×	393 0.6×	184 0.4×	76 0.4×	214 1.6×	6	924
Geneviève Robillard Canada	11	507 0.7×	219 0.4×	214 0.4×	86 0.5×	263 2.0×	16	1.0k
Cade McCall United Kingdom	27	340 0.5×	754 1.2×	500 1.0×	338 1.9×	476 3.6×	58	1.8k
José Vasconcelos-Raposo Portugal	22	475 0.7×	441 0.7×	134 0.3×	90 0.5×	154 1.2×	104	1.3k
Aitor Rovira United Kingdom	12	380 0.5×	235 0.4×	159 0.3×	78 0.4×	120 0.9×	32	779

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofía Seinfeld

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Seinfeld, Sofía & Adrián Montesano. (2025). Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy: A Commentary on Strategies, Interventions, and Perspectives From Five Clinical Reports. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 81(9). 888–894. 1 indexed citations

Montesano, Adrián & Sofía Seinfeld. (2025). Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy: A Three‐Dimensional Framework to Navigate Immersive Clinical Applications. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 81(9). 783–789. 2 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía, et al.. (2024). Virtual Reality Body Swapping to Improve Self-Assessment in Job Interview Training. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 17. 992–1006. 1 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Different Virtual Work Environments on Flow, Performance, User Emotions, and Preferences. 276–282. 3 indexed citations

Cannavò, Alberto, Bill Kapralos, Sofía Seinfeld, Filippo Gabriele Pratticò, & Congyi Zhang. (2023). IEEE VR 2023 Workshops: Workshop: 3D Reconstruction, Digital Twinning, and Simulation for Virtual Experiences (ReDigiTS 2023). 94–95. 1 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía, et al.. (2023). Virtual reality for the rehabilitation and prevention of intimate partner violence – From brain to behavior: A narrative review. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 788608–788608. 7 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía, Ruud Hortensius, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, et al.. (2022). Domestic Violence From a Child Perspective: Impact of an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience on Men With a History of Intimate Partner Violent Behavior. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 38(3-4). 2654–2682. 15 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía & Jörg Müller. (2020). Impact of visuomotor feedback on the embodiment of virtual hands detached from the body. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 22427–22427. 18 indexed citations

Seinfeld, Sofía, Minye Zhan, Maarten J. Vaessen, et al.. (2020). Being the victim of virtual abuse changes default mode network responses to emotional expressions. Cortex. 135. 268–284. 26 indexed citations

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Banakou, Domna, et al.. (2020). Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context. Royal Society Open Science. 7(12). 201848–201848. 56 indexed citations

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Gonzalez-Liencres, Cristina, Luís Zapata, Sofía Seinfeld, et al.. (2020). Being the Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Virtual Reality: First- Versus Third-Person Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 820–820. 48 indexed citations

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Seinfeld, Sofía, et al.. (2020). Impact of Information Placement and User Representations in VR on Performance and Embodiment. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 28(3). 1545–1556. 19 indexed citations

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Seinfeld, Sofía, Tiare Feuchtner, Antonella Maselli, & Jörg Müller. (2020). User Representations in Human-Computer Interaction. Human-Computer Interaction. 36(5-6). 400–438. 70 indexed citations

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Seinfeld, Sofía, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Ruud Hortensius, et al.. (2018). Offenders become the victim in virtual reality: impact of changing perspective in domestic violence. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2692–2692. 147 indexed citations

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Seinfeld, Sofía, Ilias Bergström, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, et al.. (2016). Influence of Music on Anxiety Induced by Fear of Heights in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1969–1969. 39 indexed citations

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Seinfeld, Sofía & María V. Sánchez-Vives. (2015). Healthy Aging Promotion through Neuroscientific Information-Based Strategies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 12(10). 12158–12170. 1 indexed citations

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Bergström, Ilias, Sofía Seinfeld, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Mel Slater, & María V. Sánchez-Vives. (2013). Using music as a signal for biofeedback. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 93(1). 140–149. 35 indexed citations

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Peck, Tabitha C., Sofía Seinfeld, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, & Mel Slater. (2013). Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias. Consciousness and Cognition. 22(3). 779–787. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seinfeld, Sofía, et al.. (2013). Effects of music learning and piano practice on cognitive function, mood and quality of life in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 810–810. 167 indexed citations

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Peck, Tabitha C., Sofía Seinfeld, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, & Mel Slater. (2013). Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias consciousness and cognition. Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona). 36 indexed citations

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