Daniel Västfjäll
@danielvastfjall.bsky.social
Affective science & decision researcher with side interest in music. Psych professor at Linköping University and senior research scientist at Decision Research aofcompassion.bsky.social Co-director https://jedilab.weebly.com
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🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
New paper out today! On the complexities of nuclear weapons decision making (makes a good companion to ”A house of dynamite” on Netflix) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
To ‘use or not to use’ nuclear weapons? Understanding public thinking about nuclear weapons decisions in the United States | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
To ‘use or not to use’ nuclear weapons? Understanding public thinking about nuclear weapons decisions in the United States - Volume 20
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October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New paper out today! On the complexities of nuclear weapons decision making (makes a good companion to ”A house of dynamite” on Netflix) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Wallenberg Scholar Daniel Västfjäll is studying the emotional mechanisms behind human decision-making. The goal is to understand how our willingness to help can be made more effective on a larger scale #research #psychology #decisionmaking @liu.se @danielvastfjall.bsky.social
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Exploring the role of emotions in decision making | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Emotions are a key driver when we choose to engage in issues such as peace or the environment. However, we do not always help where our efforts would have the greatest impact. Wallenberg Scholar Danie...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Wallenberg Scholar Daniel Västfjäll is studying the emotional mechanisms behind human decision-making. The goal is to understand how our willingness to help can be made more effective on a larger scale #research #psychology #decisionmaking @liu.se @danielvastfjall.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3wfcaxkp
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New Jedi-lab paper: Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior
Environmental science; Environmental policy; Social sciences; Interdisciplinary application
studies; Psychology
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April 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
New Jedi-lab paper: Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in affective learning and decision-making
Do you want to contribute to better health for everyone? Our research group, led by Andreas Olsson at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is seeking a qualified and motivated postdoctoral researcher.
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April 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
New jedi-lab paper led by padawan Hulda Karlsson-Larsson examining moderators for overhead aversion in charitable giving
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Reducing overhead aversion in charitable giving through information and introspection
Donors are less likely to donate to charities with high overhead levels. Can giving information about what the overhead covers and its effect on chari…
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February 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New jedi-lab paper led by padawan Hulda Karlsson-Larsson examining moderators for overhead aversion in charitable giving
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New JEDI-lab paper out in JDM on how financial investments may hurt or help the environment www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Mitigating climate change with financial investments: exploring sustainable investment strategies in a novel experimental investment paradigm | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
Mitigating climate change with financial investments: exploring sustainable investment strategies in a novel experimental investment paradigm - Volume 20
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January 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New JEDI-lab paper out in JDM on how financial investments may hurt or help the environment www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New Jedi-labpaper in Psych Comm where we propose that affective dynamics is the key to better understand affective influences on judgment and decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Affective integration in experience, judgment, and decision-making - Communications Psychology
Decision making integrates affective dynamics, with affect providing information, signalling changes in the environment and conveying the current relevance of goals
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December 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
New Jedi-labpaper in Psych Comm where we propose that affective dynamics is the key to better understand affective influences on judgment and decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Interview with Jedi Knight Kinga Barrafrem about her newly funded project on financial decision-making liu.se/en/news-item...
AI can boost financial decision making
Do you have limited financial knowledge, or prefer not to think about financial issues? Then there is great potential that AI can help, according to LiU researcher Kinga Barrafrem.
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December 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Interview with Jedi Knight Kinga Barrafrem about her newly funded project on financial decision-making liu.se/en/news-item...
Interview with Jedi-lab post-docs Nathalie Hallin and Hajdi Moche about a recent study on giving and religion published in JDM liu.se/en/news-item...
Religious people are not more generous – with one exception
Believers are no more generous than atheists – at least as long as they don’t know what the recipient believes in. This is the conclusion of a study carried out at LiU
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December 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Interview with Jedi-lab post-docs Nathalie Hallin and Hajdi Moche about a recent study on giving and religion published in JDM liu.se/en/news-item...
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The Napalm Girl: A 9-year-old’s pain reshaped global conscience. Kim Phuc, burned and screaming, exposed war’s horrors. Now, she fosters healing through the Kim Foundation. What makes a single photograph capable of shifting global perspectives? bit.ly/3ZOUEN3
December 13, 2024 at 8:22 PM
The Napalm Girl: A 9-year-old’s pain reshaped global conscience. Kim Phuc, burned and screaming, exposed war’s horrors. Now, she fosters healing through the Kim Foundation. What makes a single photograph capable of shifting global perspectives? bit.ly/3ZOUEN3