Publications

Matilde Tassinari, Akimi Oyanagi, Tomohiro Amemiya (2026). Combining intergroup contact and outgroup embodiment in virtual reality: An exploratory test of backfire and secondary transfer effects of outgroup embodiment. Computers in Human Behavior.
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Matilde Tassinari, Sohvi Heaton, Imtiaj Ahmed, Ville J. Harjunen (2026). Who benefits from virtual embodiment? trait empathy and the reduction of intergroup bias in empathy. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality.
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Matilde Tassinari, Marco Marinucci, Béatrice S. Hasler (2026). Immersive Technologies and Intergroup Relations: A critical review of theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Computers in Human Behavior.
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Niloufar Zebarjadi, Annika Kluge, Enrico Glerean, Matilde Tassinari, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Jonathan Levy (2026). Polarized neural responses to political narratives are sensitive to small variations in self-reported political perspectives. iScience.
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Gloria Mendoza-Franco, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Matthias B. Aulbach, Luísa Cardoso, Ville J. Harjunen, J. Niklas Ravaja, Matilde Tassinari, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen (2026). Decoding emotional brain patterns during intergroup encounters: the role of emotional expressions and physical proximity in intergroup dynamics. NeuroImage.
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Reko Elovainio, Matilde Tassinari, Loris Vezzali, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti (2026). Collective psychological ownership in Virtual Reality: Implications for Intergroup prejudice. Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
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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 (2025). Validating AI-Generated Stimuli for Assessing Implicit Weight Bias. ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation.
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