Michael Laakasuo

- University Lecturer,
Department of Social Research (Faculty of Social Sciences)

mrlaak@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2332

+358 50 448 3621

Publications

But does humanity have a choice?: Comment on “To Enhance or not to Enhance” by Grinschgl S., Ninaus, M., Wood. G. & Neubauer, AC (2025) (2025)
- Physics of Life Reviews
Laakasuo, Michael; Buttazzoni, Paolo; Drosinou, Marianna
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal)
Everything is connected: Reminders of environmental and social connectedness strengthen environmental attitudes (2025)
- Journal of Environmental Psychology
Drosinou, Marianna; Palomäki, Jussi; Jokela, Markus; Laakasuo, Michael
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
HEXACO personality dimensions as predictors of environmental attitudes, socio-moral orientations, and climate change beliefs (2025)
- iScience
Drosinou, Marianna; Palomäki, Jussi; Kunnari, Anton; Koverola, Mika; Jokela, Markus; Laakasuo, Michael
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making (2025)
- Journal of Research in Personality
Palomäki, Jussi; Laakasuo, Michael; Castren, Sari; Kainulainen, Tuomo; Saastamoinen, Jani; Suhonen, Niko
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures (2025)
- Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Ackerman, Joshua M.; Samore, Theodore; Fessler, Daniel M.T.; Kupfer, Tom R.; Choi, Soyeon; Merrell, Wilson N.; Aarøe, Lene; Aavik, Toivo; Acabado, Stephen; Akello, Grace; Alfian, Ilham N.; Al-Shawaf, Laith; Alvarez, Marinés M.; Ammann, Jeanine; Arikan, Gizem; Asha, Saiyeda A.; Astobiza, Anibal M.; Baeza-Ugarte, Carmen G.; Barclay, Pat; Barlow, Fiona Kate; Bizarro, Lisiane; Bressan, Paola; Castellanos-Chacón, Andres; Choy, Bryan K.C.; Chusairi, Achmad; Contreras-Garduño, Jorge; Chávez, Cosamalón Brenda L.; Costa-Neves, Bernardo; De, Mallika; de, Lima Tiago J.S.; de, Zoysa Piyanjali; Dryžaitė, Ieva; Elbæk, Christian T.; Fedor, Peter; Fernández, Ana M.; Fernandez-Morales, Regina; Fülöp, Márta; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado; Garcia-Gómez, Leonor; Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Garduño-Franco, Jimena; Pilar, Grazioso María del; Habacht, Fanny; Hasan, Youssef; Haugestad, Camila P.; Haugestad, Christian A.P.; Havlíček, Jan; Hernandez, Earl J.; Hoang, Vu M.; Hong, Minsung; Hromatko, Ivana; Iliško, Dzintra; Imada, Hirotaka; Jakšić, Ivana; Jarmakowski, Tomasz; Hjördísar, Jónsdóttir Harpa L.; Kajokaite, Kotrina; Kaňková, Šárka; Kervyn, Nicolas; Kim, Jinseok P.; Kunst, Jonas R.; Laakasuo, Michael; Leongómez, Juan David; Li, Norman P.; Lu, Junsong; Lynch, Nathan; Maegli, María A.; Manley, Harry; Marcu, Gabriela; McAfee, Thea; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Molnár, Nándor B.; Morvinski, Coby; Muhamad, Haslina; Nejat, Pegah; Huy, Hoang Nguyen; Oliveira, Angelica N.; Olsson, Mats J.; Onyishi, Charity N.; Onyishi, Ike E.; Orozco, Reegan; Otterbring, Tobias; Ottersen, Ida S.; Pacheco-López, Gustavo; Panagiotopoulou, Penny; Paniagua, Walter; Parvin, Roksana; Pavlović, Zoran; Prokop, Pavol; Raffman, Emma; Rizwan, Muhammad; Rojas, Sheila; Różycka-Tran, Joanna; Sánchez, Oscar R.; Selim, Heyla; Sevi, Barış; Shani, Yaniv; Shastry, Madhulika S.; Stieger, Stefan; Suh, Eunkook M.; Sumari, Melati; Takemura, Kosuke; Tognetti, Arnaud; Trombetta, Roberta Z.R.; Tybur, Joshua M.; Ucak, Eylul B.; Uchida, Yukiko; Valentova, Jaroslava V.; Viciana, Hugo; Visine, Amandine; Wang, Jin; Wang, XT (XiaoTian); Yahiiaiev, Illia I.; Zein, Rizqy A.; Žeželj, Iris
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Reimagining Moralities of Digital Healthcare Systems – Heuristics as Cognitive Boundary Spanning Arrangements (2025) Boundary Spanning Design for Better Organisation Hyökki, Suvi; Laakasuo, Michael
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
Psychological and social wellbeing associated with regional population change in Finland (2024)
- Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
Jokela, Markus; Laakasuo, Michael; Parikka, Suvi; Rotkirch, Anna; Hämäläinen, Hans
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
'Return to player' information given to gamblers is unintuitive, misleading and often incorrect (2024)
- Addiction
Palomäki Jussi, Kunnari Anton, Laakasuo Michael
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Moral Uncanny Valley revisited - how human expectations of robot morality based on robot appearance moderate the perceived morality of robot decisions in high conflict moral dilemmas (2023)
- Frontiers in Psychology
Laakasuo Michael
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Would you exchange your soul for immortality? : existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval (2023)
- Frontiers in Psychology
Laakasuo Michael, Sundvall Jukka, Francis Kathryn, Drosinou Marianna, Hannikainen Ivar, Kunnari Anton, Palomäki Jussi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)