Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki, where she has held a permanent position since 2012 and completed her doctoral training. Jasinskaja-Lahti's research spans intergroup relations, immigrant identities and adaptation, prejudice reduction, and the social psychology of collective ownership, including territorial and epistemic dimensions of how groups claim belonging. Much of this work draws on experimental and cross-national methods, including the use of virtual reality to study intergroup contact and bias. Jasinskaja-Lahti has also contributed to research on far-right movements, responses to disinformation, and the experiences of immigrant communities during conflict, including studies of Russian-speaking populations in Finland during the war in Ukraine.