📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Our Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation colleagues invite scholars to submit their proposals for the 4th edition of the Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation #HEPP4 When: 11-13 December 2023 Where: Helsinki 🇫🇮 Submissions deadline: 2 May 2023 helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

According to @drpriscillalui, the use of VR in discrimination research can provide researchers with a more ecologically valid and sophisticated understanding of the effects of discrimination on ethnic minorities. The potential advantages of VR include: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-69…

Finally diving into "The Far-Right Discourse of #Multiculturalism in Intergroup Interactions: A Critical Discursive Perspective" edited by Katarina Pettersson & Emma Nortio. Wishing I had picked up this thought-provoking and well-researched work sooner. (1/2) #AcademicTwitter

It's been a while since we took a group photo that wasn't a screenshot 😅 not everyone could make it, but here's our amazing research group, hard at work! #research #teamwork

Join us at #SoPsyDays23 to learn from our Katarina Petterson and @marja_lo as they tackle two important topics: the Babushka as an ambivalent figure in nation-building during the Ukrainian wad, and the use of humor to perpetuate misogyny in political communication. See you there!

We are very much looking forward to sharing some snippets of our research group's recent work at #easp2023krk! Here is where to find us 👇

Kicking off #easp2023krk today with a preconference on "The State of Trust" in pol&socpsy. Big kudos to @GabiJB & Olivier Klein (@olivierklein.bsky.social) for putting together this insightful event. My presentation is below, but there's so much more to look forward to from all participants easp2023krk

It's happening! 🙌The Annual Finnish Social Psychology Conference will take place on May 16-17, 2024 at the University of Helsinki. Our theme this year is Perspectives on Sustainability. Visit our website in the bio for more details. Stay tuned! #sopsydays2024 #sopsypaivat2024

ESSO group's next defence is taking place on Jan 26: Viivi Eskelinen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Home, religion, and fatherland - Explaining the link between religiosity and prejudice in western societies"

📢New Open Access publication out from the ESSO group

Exciting news 📢 Our research article on the impact of intergroup contact in virtual reality has been published in GPIR 🎉 Two studies held in Finland and Italy highlight how VR can decrease prejudice towards ethnic minorities. Check out the article! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Excited to share our new study on #disinformation in #Hungary! With Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Jan-Erik Lönnqvist & Zsolt Péter Szabó we used a person-centered approach to identify distinct profiles of news consumers. Here's what we found... (1/6) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share the publication of our latest article! Together with with Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti and others, our research is the first to test the Secondary Transfer Effect of contact in Virtual Reality. In our two studies conducted in Finland and Italy [1/3] dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2…