Peer-reviewed publications

I’ve (co)authored 80 scientific papers, 70 of which have been peer-reviewed (23 as first author, 17 as second author, and 10 as last author). My papers focus on 1) gambling, games, and behavioral addictions, 2) social psychology and moral psychology of robotics, 3) emotions, decision-making, and psychophysiological correlates of cognition, and 4) psychology of deception.

My papers are listed below topic-wise, though some papers fit multiple topics. If you want a paper you can’t access, I’ll be happy to email you a copy.

Gambling, games, and behavioral addictions

• Palomäki, J., Grönroos, T., Heiskanen, M., Levola, J., & Salonen, A.H. (in press). Occurrence and trajectories of psychiatric disorders in adults with gambling disorder: a longitudinal study based on health registers covering the Finnish population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

• Turner, N.E., Moin, J., AlMakadma, Y., Palomäki, J., Kaur, G., Xia, J., & Gupta, A. (in press). Use of computer-based mathematical simulations to understand gambling games and potential risks for problem gambling. Journal of Gambling Issues.

• Määttänen, I., Palomäki, J., Vepsäläinen, J., & Makkonen, E. (2025). Development and Validation of a New Risk-Taking Game: Helsinki Aiming Task (HAT). Behavioral Sciences, 15(11), 1597.

• Marjamaa, N., Hylkilä, K., Kääriäinen, M., Palomäki, J., Behm, S., Peltonen, A., Konttila, J., & Männikkö, N. (in press). Feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a digital intervention for gaming-related problems and well-being: A quasi-experimental study. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., Castrén, S., Kainulainen, T., Saastamoinen, J., & Suhonen, N. (2025). Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making. Journal of Research in Personality, 104669.

• Egerer, M., Jääskeläinen, P., Marionneau, V., Matilainen, R., Palomäki, J., Pietilä, E., Tsupari, M., Hodgins, D.C., Young, M.M., & Castrén, S. (2025). A qualitative investigation of the feasibility and acceptability of lower risk gambling guidelines. Harm Reduction Journal, 22(1), 65.

• Palomäki, J., Castrén, S., Männikkö, N., & Latvala, T. (in press). Gambling and other addictive behaviours among higher education students in Finland – insights from a large-scale survey. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1529051.

• Hautamäki, S., Marionneau, V., Castrén, S., Palomäki, J., Raisamo, S., Lintonen, T., Pörtfors, P., & Latvala, T. (in press). Methodologies and estimates of social costs of gambling: A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine, 117940.

• Soares-Mantere, E., Savolainen, I., Vuorinen, I., Hagfors, H., Palomäki, J., & Oksanen, A. (in press). The Internet of problem gambling: A mixed-methods study of the role of Internet-enabled risk factors among Finnish adults. New Media and Society, 14614448251333739.

• Palomäki, J., Latvala, T., Salonen, A.H., Marionneau, V., Hodgins, D., Young, M.M., & Castrén, S. (2024). Testing the acceptability and feasibility of the lower-risk gambling guidelines in Finland. Journal of Behavioural Addictions, 13(4), 987-1002.

• Lind, J., Palomäki, J., & Castrén, S. (2024). Examining problem gambling, substance use disorders and cluster B personality traits among incarcerated individuals. Addictive Behaviors Reports.

• Macey, J., Palomäki, J., & Castrén, S. (2024). Using latent class analysis to identify Finnish gambler types and potential risk. International Gambling Studies, 1-24.

• Männikkö, N., Palomäki, J., Parikka, S., Määttänen, I., & Castrén, S. (2024). Establishing Academic Burnout’s Relationship with Problematic Internet Use and Specific Health-Risk Behaviours: A Cross-sectional Study of Finnish Higher Education Students. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-20.

• Korvuo, T., Palomäki, J., & Castrén, S. (2023). Dissociative experiences reduce online problem gambling treatment effectiveness. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 127, 152414.

• Palomäki, J., Turner, N., Macey, J., & Castrén, S. (2023). Increased volatility in video poker results in more winning players but shorter winning streaks – evidence from simulations. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(3), 711-720.

• Arstila, V., Uusitalo, S., & Palomäki, J. (2023). Miksi pelaamme rahapelejä? In S. Uusitalo & V. Arstila (Eds.), Ongelmallinen rahapelaaminen: näkökulmia rahapelaamisen varjoihin ja tutkimuksen katvealueisiin. Turku: Eetos.

• Palomäki, J., Salmela, M., & Laakasuo, M. (2023). Emootiot ja niiden säätely rahapelaamisessa. In S. Uusitalo & V. Arstila (Eds.), Ongelmallinen rahapelaaminen: näkökulmia rahapelaamisen varjoihin ja tutkimuksen katvealueisiin. Turku: Eetos.

• Palomäki, J., Lind, K., Heiskanen, M., & Castrén, S. (2022). Predicting online problem gambling treatment discontinuation: New evidence from cross-validated models. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 37(3), 519-532.

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., Abuhamdeh, S., Lappi, O., & Cowley, B. U. (2022). Psychometric analysis of the flow short scale translated to Finnish. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11.

• Palomäki, J., Tammi, T., Lehtonen, N., Seittenranta, N., Laakasuo, M., Abuhamdeh, S., Lappi, O., & Cowley, B. U. (2021). The link between flow and performance is moderated by task experience. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, 106891.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., Castrén, S., Saastamoinen, J., Kainulainen, T., & Suhonen, N. (2021). Online betting intensity is linked with Extraversion and Conscientiousness. Journal of Personality, 89(5), 1081-1094.

• Palomäki, J., Heiskanen, M., & Castrén, S. (2022). Online 8-week cognitive therapy for problem gamblers: The moderating effects of depression symptoms and perceived financial control. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(1), 75-87.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., Cowley, B. U., & Lappi, O. (2020). Poker as a Domain of Expertise. Journal of Expertise, 3(2).

• Cowley, B. U., Palomäki, J., Tammi, T., Frantsi, R., Inkilä, V. P., Lehtonen, N., Pölönen, P., Vepsäläinen, J., & Lappi, O. (2019). Flow experiences during visuomotor skill acquisition reflect deviation from a power-law learning curve, but not overall level of skill. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1126. (BC, JP, TT Equal contributors)

• Oikonomidis, A., Palomäki, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2019). Experience and passion in poker: Are there well-being implications? Journal of Gambling Studies, 35(2), 731–742.

• Kosunen, I., Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., Kuikkaniemi, K., Ravaja, N., & Jacucci, G. (2018). Heart-rate sonification biofeedback for poker. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 120, 14-21.

• Wei, X., Palomäki, J., Yan, J., & Robinson, P. (2016). The science and detection of tilting. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (pp. 79-86). (XW, JP Equal contributors)

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., & Salmela, M. (2015). Poker players with experience and skill are not “ill” – Exposing a discrepancy in measures of problem gambling. Journal of Gambling and Commercial Gaming Research, 1. Selected for “best paper” -award at the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Gambling & Commercial Gaming Research (APCG2013)

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., Lappi, O. (2015). Pokerin psykologiaa (The psychology of poker). Psykologia, 50(3), 180–193. (ML, JP Equal contributors)

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., & Salmela, M. (2014). Experienced poker players are emotionally stable. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17(10), 668–671.

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., & Salmela, M. (2014). Emotional and social factors influence poker decision making accuracy. Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(3), 933–947.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., & Salmela, M. (2014). Losing more by losing it: Poker experience, sensitivity to losses and tilting severity. Journal of Gambling Studies, 30(1), 187–200.

• Palomäki, J., Kosunen, I., Kuikkaniemi, K., Yamabe, T., & Ravaja, N. (2013). Anticipatory electrodermal activity and decision making in a computer poker-game. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 6(1), 55–70. Selected to be among the best 10 papers published in the journal at the 10 th Anniversary NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo. M., & Salmela, M. (2013). ”Don't worry, it's just poker!” - Experience, self-rumination and self-reflection as determinants of decision-making in on-line poker. Journal of Gambling Studies, 29(3), 491–505.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., & Salmela, M. (2013). ‘This is just so unfair!’: A qualitative analysis of loss-induced emotions and tilting in on-line poker. International Gambling Studies, 13(2), 255-270.

Social psychology and moral psychology of robotics

• Drosinou, M., Palomäki, J., Kunnari, A., Koverola, M., Jokela, M., & Laakasuo, M. (in press). HEXACO personality dimensions as predictors of environmental attitudes, socio-moral orientations, and climate change beliefs. iScience.

• Laakasuo, M., Kunnari, A., Francis, K., Košová, M.J., Kopecký, R., Buttazzoni, P., Koverola, M., Palomäki, J., Drosinou, M., & Hannikainen, I. (in press). Moral psychological exploration of the asymmetry effect in AI-assisted euthanasia decisions. Cognition.

• Drosinou, M., Palomäki, J., Jokela, M., & Laakasuo, M. (2025). Everything is connected: Reminders of environmental and social connectedness strengthen environmental attitudes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102, 102549.

• Harkki, J., Tuovinen, P., Jousimäki, V., Barreto, G., Rapeli, P., Palomäki, J., Annevirta, J., Puisto, A-H., McGlone, F., Nieminen, H., & Alho, H. (in press). CT-optimal touch modulates alcohol-cue-elicited heart rate variability in Alcohol Use Disorder patients during early abstinence: a randomized controlled study. Alcohol.

• Raitasalo, K., Karjalainen, K., Ollila, H., & Palomäki, J. (in press). Suomalaisten korkeakouluopiskelijoiden päihteiden käyttö vuonna 2021: KOTT-tutkimuksen tuloksia. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen aikakauslehti.

• Laakasuo, M., Sundvall, J., Francis, K. B., Drosinou, M-A., Hannikainen, I., Kunnari, A. J. O., & Palomäki, J. (in press). Would you exchange your soul for immortality? Existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1254846.

• Drosinou, M., Palomäki, J., Kunnari, A., Koverola, M., Jokela, M. & Laakasuo, M. (in press). Modelling levels of eco-conscious awareness. Journal Applied Social Psychology.

• Sundvall, J., Drosinou, M., Hannikainen, I., Elovaara, K., Halonen, J., Herzon, V., Kopecký, R., Jirout Košová, M., Koverola, M., Kunnari, A., Perander, S., Saikkonen, T., Palomäki, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2023). Innocence over utilitarianism - Heightened Moral Standards for Robots in Rescue Dilemmas. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(4), 779-804.

• Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., + 260 authors including Palomäki, J. (in press.). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data.

• Pavlović, T., Azevedo, F., + 260 authors including Palomäki, J. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), pgac093.

• Van Bavel, J.J., Cichocka, A., + 260 authors including Palomäki, J. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-14.

• Koverola, M., Kunnari, A., Drosinou, M., Palomäki, J., Hannikainen, I. R., Košová, M. J., Kopecký, R., Sundvall, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2022). Treatments approved, boosts eschewed: Moral limits of neurotechnological enhancement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, 104351.

• Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., Kunnari, A., Rauhala, S., Drosinou, M., Halonen, J., Lehtonen, N., Koverola, M., Repo, M., Sundvall, J., Visala, A., & Francis, K. B. (2022). Moral psychology of nursing robots: Exploring the role of robots in dilemmas of patient autonomy. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication.

• Laakasuo, M., Sundvall, J., Berg, A., Drosinou, M., Herzon, V., Kunnari, A., Koverola, M., Repo, M., Saikkonen, T., & Palomäki, J. (2021). Moral psychology and artificial agents (Part 1): Ontologically categorizing bio-cultural humans. In S. Thompson (Ed.), Machine Law, Ethics and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: IGI Global.

• Laakasuo, M., Sundvall, J., Berg, A., Drosinou, M., Herzon, V., Kunnari, A., Koverola, M., Repo, M., Saikkonen, T., & Palomäki, J. (2021). Moral psychology and artificial agents (Part 2): The transhuman connection. In S. Thompson (Ed.), Machine Law, Ethics and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: IGI Global.

• Laakasuo, M., Köbis, N., & Palomäki, J. (2021) A robot’s appearance moderates how its decisions are judged. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(7), 1679–1688.

• Laakasuo, M., Herzon, V., Perander, S., Drosinou, M., Sundvall, J., Palomäki, J., & Visala, A. (2021). Socio-cognitive biases in folk AI ethics and risk discourse. AI and Ethics, 1(4), 593–610.

• Laakasuo, M., Visala, A., & Palomäki, J. (2020). Kuinka ihmismieli vääristää keskustelua tekoälyn riskeistä ja etiikasta – Kognitiotieteellisiä näkökulmia keskusteluun. Ajatus, 77(1), 131–168.

• Koverola, M., Drosinou, M., Palomäki, J., Halonen, J., Kunnari, A., Repo, M., Lehtonen, N., & Laakasuo, M. (2020). Moral psychology of sex robots: An experimental study – how pathogen disgust is associated with interhuman sex but not interandroid sex. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 11(1), 233–249.

• Palomäki, J., Kunnari, A., Drosinou, M., Koverola, M., Lehtonen, N., Halonen, J., Repo, M., & Laakasuo, M. (2018). Evaluating the replicability of the uncanny valley effect. Heliyon, 4(11), e00939.

• Laakasuo, M., Drosinou, M., Koverola, M., Kunnari, A., Halonen, J., Lehtonen, N., & Palomäki, J. (2018). What makes people approve or condemn mind upload technology? Untangling the effects of sexual disgust, purity and science fiction familiarity. Palgrave Communications, 4(1), 1-14.

• Laakasuo, M., Köbis, N., Palomäki, J., & Jokela, M. (2018). Money for microbes – Pathogen avoidance and out-group helping behavior. International Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 1–10.

Emotions, decision-making, and psychophysiological correlates of cognition

• Kuznetsova, E., Tammi, T., Postnova, N., Palomäki, J., & Cowley, B. U. (2025). Mechanisms of learning in adults with ADHD during an ecologically-valid visual discrimination task. Journal of Attention Disorders, 10870547251356744.

• Kuznetsova, E., Tammi, T., Postnova, N., Palomäki, J., & Cowley, B. (2024). Neurotypical Adults employ Distinct Cognitive Mechanisms compared to Adults with ADHD during a Sustained Attention Task with Gestalt Stimuli. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

• Saarinen, V.A., & Palomäki, J. (2021). Psykojuridinen näkökulma tuomarin päätöksentekoon, erityisesti rangaistuksen määräämiseen. Lakimies, 119(6), 993–1014.

• Cowley, B. U., Juurmaa, K., & Palomäki, J. (2022). Reduced power in fronto-parietal theta EEG linked to impaired attention-sampling in adult ADHD. Eneuro, 9(1).

• Määttä, O., McIntyre, N., Palomäki, J., Hannula, M. S., Scheinin, P., & Ihantola, P. (2021). Students in sight: Using mobile eye-tracking to investigate mathematics teachers’ gaze behaviour during task instruction-giving. Frontline Learning Research, 9(4), 92-115.

• Määttänen, I., Henttonen, P., Väliaho, J., Palomäki, J., Thibault, M., Kallio, J., Mäntyjärvi, J., Harviainen, T., & Jokela, M. (2021). Positive affect state is a good predictor of movement and stress: combining data from ESM/EMA, mobile HRV measurements and trait questionnaires. Heliyon, 7(2), e06243.

• Määttänen, I., Martikainen, J., Henttonen, P., Väliaho, M., Thibault, M., & Palomäki, J. (2019). Understanding depressive symptoms through psychological traits and physiological stress reactivity. Cogent Psychology, 1575654.

• Palomäki, J., Kivikangas, M., Alafuzoff, A., Hakala, T., & Krause, C. M. (2012). Brain oscillatory 4–35 Hz EEG responses during an n-back task with complex visual stimuli. Neuroscience Letters, 516(1), 141-145.

• Palomäki, J., Laakasuo, M., & Lappi, O. (2012). Ihmisen emootiot, päätöksenteko ja rationaalisuus. Ajatus, 69, 91–120.

Psychology of deception

• Palomäki, J., Yan, J., Modic, D., & Laakasuo, M. (2016). “To bluff like a man or fold like a girl?” –Gender biased deceptive behavior in online poker. PloS ONE, 11(7), e0157838.

• Palomäki, J., J., Yan, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2016). Machiavelli as a poker mate —A naturalistic behavioural study on strategic deception. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 266-271.

• Modic, D., Palomäki, J., Drosinou, M., & Laakasuo, M. (2018). The dark triad and willingness to commit insurance fraud. Cogent Psychology, 5(1), 1469579.

• Modic, D., Anderson, R., & Palomäki, J. (2018). We will make you like our research: The development of a susceptibility-to-persuasion scale. PloS ONE, 13(3), e0194119.