Daniel Västfjäll, Ph.D.
Daniel Västfjäll is a senior research scientist at Decision Research and Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Linköping University in Sweden. His research focuses on the role of affect, especially mood, in judgment and decision-making, perception and psychophysics. A common theme for his research is how affective feelings serve as information for various judgments including judgments about consumer products, health, the self, and auditory characteristics of objects.
Recent Publications
Västfjäll, D., Slovic, P., Mayorga, M., Peters, E. (2014). Compassion fade: Affect and charity are greatest for a single child in Need. PLoS ONE, 9(6), e100115.
Slovic, P., & Västfjäll, D. (2013). The more who die, the less we care: Psychic numbing and genocide. In A. J. Oliver (Ed.), Behavioral public policy (pp. 94–114). UK: Cambridge University Press.
Dickert, S., Västfjäll, D., Kleber, J., & Slovic, P. (2012). Valuations of human lives: Normative expectations and psychological mechanisms of (ir)rationality. Synthese, 189, 95–105. doi: 10.1007/s11229-012-0137-4
