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June 2018 - present
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April 2017 - May 2018
August 2014 - April 2017
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Publications (44)
Purpose
Social media platforms are increasingly used at work to facilitate work-related activities and can either challenge or make people feel more productive at jobs. This study drew from technostress and employee well-being literature and analyzed longitudinal effects of professional social media (PSM) invasion, work engagement and work exhausti...
We examined well‐being profiles among Finnish employees before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic and their links with personality trait profiles. Longitudinal survey data were collected in 2019–2021, and 733 respondents participated in all five surveys. The data were analyzed with a person‐centered approach using latent profile analysis (LPA). Measu...
Hostile online communication is a global concern. Academic research and teaching staff are among those professionals who routinely give public comments and are thus vulnerable to online attacks. This social psychological and criminological study investigated online harassment victimization among university researchers and teachers. Survey participa...
Social media use in professional organisations can have several psychological and physiological consequences. The aim of this study was to examine how social media is used in five professional organisations from distinct occupational fields and how such use relates to job demands, job resources, and personal resources. We collected survey data (N =...
This study investigated the impact of cyberbullying victimization at work on well-being and strain in the workplace. This is the first study to use a longitudinal approach to research cyberbullying at work. A nationally representative sample of Finnish workers ( n = 768) took part in a five-wave survey study. Both within-person and between-person e...
Robotization of work is progressing fast globally, and the process has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing integrated threat theory as a theoretical framework, this study investigated affective attitudes toward introducing robots at work using a four timepoint data ( n = 830) from a Finnish working population longitudinal study. We...
Online harassment and hate are a personally and societally harmful phenomenon many social media users experience every day. Based on social psychological approach to online harassment and theories of coping behaviors, we investigated how professionals who use the Internet in their work react to online harassment. We collected survey data from Finni...
This study grounded on computational social sciences and social psychology investigated sentiment and life domains, motivational, and temporal themes in social media discussions about robotic technologies. We retrieved text comments from the Reddit social media platform in March 2019 based on the following six robotic technology concepts: robot ( N...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic restricted everyday life during 2020-2021 for many people worldwide. It also affected alcohol consumption patterns and leisure activities, including the use of social media.
Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze whether social media use predicts increased risky drinking over time and during the COVID-19...
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being and mental health are a concern worldwide. This article is based on two longitudinal studies that investigated the role of social media use in loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Study 1 utilized nationally representative 3-point longitudinal data (n = 735) co...
Increasingly, people must interact with robot technologies. In this research, we examined attitudes toward robots as equipment and as coworkers and whether these attitudes are affected by the autonomy of the robot among participants living in the United States (Study 1: N = 1003; Study 2: N = 969). Study 1 revealed that respondents had a more posit...
This study utilizes the media persuasion perspective to investigate the connection of media exposure of robots on the general attitude and trust toward robots of people from different cultural backgrounds. Study 1 utilized 2016 survey data from Finnish care workers (N = 3800). Study 2 used two 2019 datasets from the adult population of the United S...
The balance between work and private life has become vague due to the use of social media and flexible working conditions. The study drew from technostress and wellbeing literature and examined the behavioral and psychological outcomes of professional social media invasion, the perception that work-related social media usage interferes with one’s p...
Smartphone use has changed patterns of online and offline interaction. Phubbing (i.e., looking at one’s phone instead of paying attention to others) is an increasingly recognized phenomenon in offline interaction. We examined whether people who phub are more likely to have lower social intelligence, whether phubbing is considered more annoying than...
BACKGROUND
The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted everyday life during 2020–2021. This has impacted alcohol consumption patterns and leisure activities, including the use of social media.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to analyze whether social media use predicts increased drinking over time and during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
METHO...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic restricted everyday life during 2020-2021 for many people worldwide. It also affected alcohol consumption patterns and leisure activities, including the use of social media.
Objective
The aim of this study was to analyze whether social media use predicts increased risky drinking over time and during the COVID-19 pa...
Smartphone use has changed patterns of online and offline interaction. Phubbing (i.e., looking at one’s phone instead of paying attention to others) is an increasingly recognized phenomenon in offline interaction. We examined whether people who phub are more likely to have lower social intelligence, whether phubbing is considered more annoying than...
After a long history of industrial automation, robots are entering service fields at an accelerating rate due to the recent technological advances in robotics. Understanding the acceptance and applicability of robots is essential for successful introduction, desired benefits, and well-managed transformation of the labor market. In this work, we inv...
The emergence of artificial intelligence and robotization is prospected to transform societies remarkably. This study examined the associations between perceived robot attitudes of other people, perceived robot use self-efficacy, and attitudes toward robots. An online survey was collected from respondents living in the United States (N = 969). Anal...
Background:
COVID-19 pandemic has changed work life profoundly and concerns of employees' mental well-being have risen. Organizations have taken rapid digital leaps and started to use new collaborative tools such as social media platforms overnight.
Objective:
Our study investigated how professional social media communication has affected work e...
We investigated how people react emotionally to working with robots in three scenario-based role-playing survey experiments collected in 2019 and 2020 from the United States (Study 1: N = 1003; Study 2: N = 969, Study 3: N = 1059). Participants were randomly assigned to groups and asked to write a short post about a scenario in which we manipulated...
The global crisis caused by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus and the associated disease (COVID-19) has changed working conditions due to social-distancing policies. Many workers started to use new technologies at work, including social media applications. In this longitudinal study, we investigated the potential stress effects of social media co...
BACKGROUND
COVID-19 pandemic has changed work life profoundly and concerns of employees’ mental well-being have risen. Organizations have taken rapid digital leaps and started to use new collaborative tools such as social media platforms overnight.
OBJECTIVE
Our study investigated how professional social media usage has affected work engagement be...
Gambling opportunities are facilitated by the growth of the Internet and social media platforms. Digital games also increasingly include monetary features, such as microtransactions, blurring the line between gambling and gaming. The Internet provides a variety of virtual communities for gamblers and gamers, but comprehensive research on these comm...
Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 crisis has changed the conditions of many all over the globe. One negative consequence of the ongoing pandemic is anxiety brought about by uncertainty and the COVID-19 disease. Increased anxiety is a potential risk factor for wellbeing at work. This study investigated psychological, situational, and socio-demograp...
Background: COVID-19 crisis has changed the conditions of many throughout the globe. One negative consequence of the on-going pandemic is anxiety brought by uncertainty and the COVID-19 disease. Increased anxiety is a potential risk factor for wellbeing at work. This study investigated psychological, situational, and socio-demographic predictors of...
Robotization and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to change societies profoundly. Trust is an important factor of human–technology interactions, as robots and AI increasingly contribute to tasks previously handled by humans. Currently, there is a need for studies investigating trust toward AI and robots, especially in first-encounter meeti...
Aims
The global crisis caused by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus rapidly increased working remotely in many countries. The aim of this study was to analyze psychological stressors predicting increased drinking during the COVID-19 crisis. Also, individual and socio-demographic differences were analyzed.
Methods
A nationally representative sampl...
This study investigated whether the introduction of robots as teammates has an impact on in-group identification. We used two samples from the United States (N = 1003, N = 969). Participants were asked to imagine a hypothetical situation in which they were assigned to a work team at a new job. The number of robot teammates was manipulated, and the...
BACKGROUND
The global crisis caused by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rapidly increased working remotely in many countries. Hazardous drinking during lockdown has caused worry among experts and increased consumption might be more prevalent among workers facing mental health risks prior to the cri...
Social media enables information sharing and social interaction within organization. This research aims to analyze how both work- and nonwork-related communication with colleagues and the work community on social media is associated with work engagement among Finnish professionals. A total of five Finnish professional organizations ( N = 563) and a...
Background: The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has dramatically changed societies in 2020. Since the end of February, Europe has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19, but there are major country differences in both the spread of the virus and measures taken to stop the virus. Social psychological factors such as institutional trus...
Background:
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has dramatically changed societies in 2020. Since the end of February, Europe has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19, but there are major country differences in both the spread of the virus and measures taken to stop the virus. Social psychological factors such as institutional tru...
BACKGROUND
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has dramatically changed societies in 2020. Since the end of February, Europe has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19, but there are major country differences in both the spread of the virus and measures taken to stop the virus. Social psychological factors such as institutional trust...
Cyberbullying at work takes many forms, from aggressive and threatening behavior to social ostracism. It can also have adverse consequences on general well-being that might be even more severe for people whose identities are centrally based on social media ties. We examined this type of identity-driven social media use via the concept of social med...
Augmented reality (AR) applications have recently emerged for entertainment and educational purposes and have been proposed to have positive effects on social interaction. In this study, we investigated the impact of a mobile, indoor AR feature on sociability, entertainment, and learning. We conducted a field experiment using a quiz game in a Finni...
Advancements in smartphone technology have resulted in the proliferation of Augmented Reality (AR) applications and games. Researchers have acknowledged the great potential of AR applications to enhance entertainment and improve learning experiences. In this study, we examined the potential effects of gamified AR in public places. We developed ARQu...
After a long history of industrial robots and automation, robots are entering the service fields with accelerating rate due to the recent technological advances in robotics. Understanding the acceptance and applicability of robots is essential for successful introduction, desired benefits, and well-managed transformation of the labor market. This w...
Gambling is a growing trend worldwide, partly due to various gambling opportunities facilitated by the growth of the digital technologies. Moreover, online and video games increasingly include monetary features, blurring the line between gambling and gaming. Internet also offers tools for gamblers to form communities, but research on this area rema...
The goal of this social psychological research was to analyze how professional usage of social media is associated with work engagement. This research aims to point out how professional social media usage relates to job resources (e.g. social support) and job demands (e.g. technology related stress) and how those affect the experienced employee wor...
Social media usage in working life has increased enormously within the past decade. Social media is useful communication and information channel, however it can be a strain for employees and complicate detachment from work and enjoyment of leisure time. In the research social media usage is analyzed from wellbeing at work perspective. Survey data (...
Robots today are working in both industrial and service sectors. Robots have evolved from one-function automatons to intelligent systems of versatile features, and the new generation of service robots are sharing same space and tasks with humans. The aim of this systematic literature review was to examine how the social acceptance of robots in diff...
Projects
Projects (6)
Urban utopies and dystopies: AI in art and society (UrbanAI) investigates images of AI in technological urban environments. The project combines fields of social psychology, cultural studies, and visual arts.
Funding: Kone Foundation 2021-2023.
Principle investigator: Atte Oksanen
Researchers: Rita Latikka & Nina Savela
Visual artist: Jussi Lahtinen
PI professor Atte Oksanen. Research consortium together with professor Päivi Korpisaari (University of Helsinki).
Researchers at the Tampere University: Magdalena Celuch, Rita Latikka, Reetta Oksa, Nina Savela
This project aims to provide research-evidence on how to tackle this major problem of cyberhate (i.e. online hate) and related intensions to influence on societal decision and policy making legally and societally. To this end, our objective is to analyze, explain and decrease cyberhate, and reduce its effects. The project will conduct state-of-art review of legal protection and use legal documents to see if citizens are equally protected by the law. Also employer’s actions in work related online hate are studied.
Funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation in 2020–2022.
Funding: Finnish Cultural Foundation 2018-2020
PI: Atte Oksanen
Researchers: Rita Latikka & Nina Savela
Part of Robots and Us: physiological, psychological, and social aspects of interactions Consortium Project (together with Jari Hietanen and Veikko Sariola)
https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/interacting-robots
