Peer-reviewed publications

I’ve (co)authored 71 scientific papers, 61 of which have been peer-reviewed (21 as first author, 15 as second author, and 9 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., 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.

• 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.

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

• 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. (in press). 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., 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. (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.