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Markku Verkasalo

Markku Verkasalo

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
9902
World Ranking
6593
National Ranking
64

Markku Verkasalo publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markku Verkasalo sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 85 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Markku Verkasalo D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markku Verkasalo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Markku Verkasalo is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with particular emphasis on social psychology and related subfields. The scientist has contributed to areas including cultural differences and values, animal behavior and welfare studies, organic food and agriculture, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, face recognition and perception, and social and intergroup psychology.

Verkasalo's recent papers cover diverse topics within these domains. Notable publications include:

  • "Value priorities of the Finnish farmers-Time to stop thinking of farmers as inherently conservative and traditional" (2021), published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • "Zeitgeist effects, fragmentation of media use, and value consensus" (2020), published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • "Who likes whom? The interaction between perceiver personality and target look" (2020), published in the Journal of Research in Personality
  • "Wishful perceiving: A value-based bias for perception of close others." (2024), published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Frequent coauthors in Verkasalo's collaborative work include Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Jaana Sorvali, Janne Kaseva, Annukka Vainio, and Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio.

Publication venues where Verkasalo's research appears reflect a range of social and personality psychology fields. These include:

  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Their research integrates concepts from social psychology and sociology and political science, with additional engagement in areas such as experimental and cognitive psychology. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into societal values, perception biases, media effects, and interpersonal relations.

Best Publications

  • Refining the theory of basic individual values.

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Jan Cieciuch;Michele Vecchione;Eldad Davidov

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • Measuring values with the Short Schwartz's Value Survey.

    Marjaana Lindeman;Markku Verkasalo

  • Value priorities and social desirability: Much substance, some style

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Markku Verkasalo;Avishai Antonovsky;Lilach Sagiv

  • Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab: Task or ask? An empirical comparison

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Markku Verkasalo;Gari Walkowitz;Gari Walkowitz;Philipp Christoph Wichardt

  • Narcissism and emergent leadership in military cadets

    Sampo V. Paunonen;Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Markku Verkasalo;Sointu Leikas

  • Basic Personal Values Underlie and Give Coherence to Political Values: A Cross National Study in 15 Countries

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Shalom H. Schwartz;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Michele Vecchione;Paul G. Bain

  • Refining the theory of basic individual values

    Schwartz Shalom;J Cieciuch;M Vecchione;E Davidov

  • The ‘Short Five’ (S5): Measuring personality traits using comprehensive single items

    Kenn Konstabel;Kenn Konstabel;Kenn Konstabel;Jan–Erik Lönnqvist;Gari Walkowitz;Gari Walkowitz;Kätlin Konstabel

  • The relation between value priorities and proneness to guilt, shame, and empathy

    Mia Silfver;Klaus Helkama;Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Markku Verkasalo

  • European norms and equations for a two dimensional presentation of values as measured with Schwartz's 21-item portrait values questionnaire

    Markku Verkasalo;Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Jari Lipsanen;Klaus Helkama

  • Personal values and political activism: A cross‐national study

    Michele Vecchione;Shalom H. Schwartz;Shalom H. Schwartz;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Harald Schoen

  • Political Conservatism and Left–Right Orientation in 28 Eastern and Western European Countries

    Anna Aspelund;Marjaana Lindeman;Markku Verkasalo

  • Values Following a Major Terrorist Incident: Finnish Adolescent and Student Values Before and After September 11, 2001

    Markku Verkasalo;Robin Goodwin;Irina Bezmenova

  • Conformism Moderates the Relations Between Values, Anticipated Regret, and Behavior

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Sointu Leikas;Sampo Paunonen;Vesa Nissinen

  • Basic Values, Ideological Self-Placement, and Voting: A Cross-Cultural Study

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Michele Vecchione;Shalom H. Schwartz;Harald Schoen

  • Personality characteristics of research volunteers

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Sampo Paunonen;Markku Verkasalo;Sointu Leikas

  • Personal values and prosocial behaviour in strategic interactions: Distinguishing value‐expressive from value‐ambivalent behaviours

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Markku Verkasalo;Philipp C. Wichardt;Philipp C. Wichardt;Gari Walkowitz;Gari Walkowitz

  • Personal Values Before and After Migration A Longitudinal Case Study on Value Change in Ingrian–Finnish Migrants

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti;Markku Verkasalo

  • Premorbid personality factors in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: results from a large cohort study of male conscripts.

    Jan-Erik Lönnqvist;Markku Verkasalo;Jari Haukka;Kai Nyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan-Erik Lönnqvist
Jan-Erik Lönnqvist University of Helsinki
Marjaana Lindeman
Marjaana Lindeman University of Helsinki
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jan Cieciuch
Jan Cieciuch VIZJA University
Michele Vecchione
Michele Vecchione Sapienza University of Rome
Sampo V. Paunonen
Sampo V. Paunonen University of Western Ontario
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Harald Schoen
Harald Schoen University of Mannheim
Cláudio Vaz Torres
Cláudio Vaz Torres University of Brasília
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti University of Helsinki

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