User:Darjarit/Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti is a social psychologist. She is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki (Finland). She is an expert in research on intergroup relations with her main research interests being in the dynamics of relationships between different social and cultural groups, political and social consequences of intergroup interactions and ways to support their positive development.

Education and positions
Jasinskaja-Lahti attended The University of Helsinki, where she graduated with a Master of Psychology degree in 1995 and later, in 2000, with a doctorate in social sciences. In 2003, she obtained a title of Docent in Social psychology, followed by an appointment as a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki in 2012.

Jasinskaja-Lahti is an expert member of the Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations [1 ] in Finland. She also served two terms as a Member of The National Non-Discrimination and Equality Tribunal [link ], ending in 2019.

Research
In the core of Jasinskaja-Lahti’s research are social identities and identity negotiations, intergroup attitudes, emotions, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination, intergroup contact in real life and online including in virtual reality, immigrant acculturation and integration, and prejudice reduction interventions.

Jasinskaja-Lahti is a leader of ESSO research group [link ], which is a diverse, international and productive community of scholars working in the area of intergroup relations at the University of Helsinki.

Jasinskaja-Lahti is a leader of several national and international research projects and an author of more than 100 publications (see Research portal: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/inga-jasinskaja-lahti)

She has been an Associate editor of Journal of Community and Social Psychology and The International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and has been on the editorial board of several other journals.

Selected works

 * Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Liebkind, K., & Solheim, E. (2009). To Identify or Not To Identify? National Disidentification as an Alternative Reaction to Perceived Ethnic Discrimination. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 58(1), 105-128.
 * Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Celikkol, G., Renvik, T. A., Eskelinen, V., Vetik, R., & Sam, D. (2018). When Psychological Contract Is Violated: Revisiting the Rejection-Disidentification Model of Immigrant Integration. Journal of Social and Political Psychology,6(2), 484-510.
 * Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Renvik, T.A., Van der Noll, J., Rohmann, A., & Verkuyten, M. (2020). Dual citizenship and perceived loyalty of immigrants. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23(7), 996-1013.
 * See more at: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/inga-jasinskaja-lahti/publications/