Daniel Västfjäll

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

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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...

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...

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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Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior Environmental science; Environmental policy; Social sciences; Interdisciplinary application studies; Psychology

New Jedi-lab paper: Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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.

post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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…

New jedi-lab paper led by padawan Hulda Karlsson-Larsson examining moderators for overhead aversion in charitable giving

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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...

Thanks - I think that ideas on affect integration are highly applicable to aesthetic judgement too

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

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...

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.

Interview with Jedi Knight Kinga Barrafrem about her newly funded project on financial decision-making 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

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...

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