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Matilde Tassinari (2025). Validating AI-Generated Stimuli for Assessing Implicit Weight Bias. Center for Open Science.
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Gloria Mendoza-Franco, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Matthias B. Aulbach, Ville J. Harjunen, Anna Peltola, J. Niklas Ravaja, Matilde Tassinari, Saana Vainio, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen (2025). Fingerprint patterns of human brain activity reveal a dynamic mix of emotional responses during virtual intergroup encounters. NeuroImage.
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Annika Kluge, Niloufar Zebarjadi, Matilde Tassinari, Fa-Hsuan Lin, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Jonathan Levy (2025). Supportive but biased: Perceptual neural intergroup bias is sensitive to minor reservations about supporting outgroup immigration. Neuropsychologia.
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Matilde Tassinari (2024). Navigating Prejudice in Virtual Reality: Direct, Indirect, and Secondary Transfer Effects of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact in VR. PunaMusta.
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Matilde Tassinari, Ville Johannes Harjunen, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Loris Vezzali, Inga Jasinskaja‐Lahti (2024). The virtual cure for real‐world prejudice? <scp>Secondary</scp> transfer effects of intergroup contact in virtual reality. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.
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M. Tassinari, M.B. Aulbach, V.J. Harjunen, V.M. Cocco, L. Vezzali, I. Jasinskaja-Lahti (2023). The Effects of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality on Outgroup Attitudes: Testing the Contact Hypothesis and its Mediators. SSRN.
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Matilde Tassinari, Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti (2022). Investigating the Influence of Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality on Empathy: An Exploratory Study Using AltspaceVR. Frontiers in Psychology.
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Matilde Tassinari, Matthias Aulbach, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti (2021). The use of virtual reality in studying prejudice and its reduction: a systematic review.. Center for Open Science.
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M. Tassinari, I. Jasinskaja-Lahti (2020). Perceived procedural justice, group identification, and support for economic equality: A test of the group engagement model. Community Psychology in Global Perspective..
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