Publications

Publications of the consortium
  • Tassinari, M., Harjunen, V. J., Cocco, V. M., Vezzali, L., & Jasinskaja‐Lahti, I. (2024). The virtual cure for real‐world prejudice? Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact in virtual reality. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(5), e2879. 
    https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2879 
  • Tassinari, M., Aulbach, M. B., Harjunen, V. J., Cocco, V. M., Vezzali, L., & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2023). The effects of positive and negative intergroup contact in virtual reality on outgroup attitudes: Testing the contact hypothesis and its mediators. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 
    https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241237747 
  • Tassinari, M., Aulbach, M. B., & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2022). The use of virtual reality in studying prejudice and its reduction: A systematic review. PloS one, 17(7), e0270748. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270748
  • Tassinari, M., Aulbach, M. B., & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2022). Investigating the Influence of Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality on Empathy: An Exploratory Study Using AltspaceVR. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 815497. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.815497
  • Saarinen, A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Harjunen, V., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Ravaja, N. (2021). Neural basis of in-group bias and prejudices: A systematic meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1214-1227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.027
  • Saarinen, A., Harjunen, V., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Jääskeläinen, I. P., & Ravaja, N. (2021). Social touch experience in different contexts: A review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 360-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.027
  • Harjunen, V. J., Sjö, P., Ahmed, I., Saarinen, A., Farmer, H., Salminen, M., ... & Ravaja, N. (2021). Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab113
  • Jääskeläinen, I. P., Sams, M., Glerean, E., & Ahveninen, J. (2020). Movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 117445.

Closely related publications of the consortium partners

  • Ipakchianaskari, S.*, Harjunen, V. J.*, Spape, M., Haans, A., Ravaja, N., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2021). Receiving a mediated touch from your partner vs. a male stranger: How visual feedback of touch and its sender influence touch experience. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9444587
  • Ipakchian Askaria, S., Harjunen, V. J., Haans, A., Ravaja, N., & IJsselsteijna, W. A. (2020). Does Mediated Social Touch Succesfully Approximate Natural Social Touch? Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine 2020, 99
  • Ahmed, I., Harjunen, V. J., Jacucci, G., Ravaja, N., Ruotsalo, T., & Spapé, M. (2020). Touching virtual humans: Haptic responses reveal the emotional impact of affective agents. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
  • Harjunen, V. J., Spapé, M., Ahmed, I., Jacucci, G., & Ravaja, N. (2018). Persuaded by the machine: The effect of virtual nonverbal cues and individual differences on compliance in economic bargaining. Computers in Human Behavior, 87, 384-394.
  • Ravaja, N., Harjunen, V., Ahmed, I., Jacucci, G., & Spapé, M. M. (2017). Feeling touched: Emotional modulation of somatosensory potentials to interpersonal touch. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-11.