Kirsti Maria Jylhä
Qualifications
- BSc. Psychology, Stockholm University (2009)
- MSc. Psychology, Uppsala University (2010)
Contact
Category: International Intern 2015
E-mail: kirsti.jylha@psyk.uu.se
About
I am a PhD student at Uppsala University in Sweden. In my research, I often cite research that has been conducted at Victoria University of Wellington. My PhD thesis will focus on the relation between sociopolitical ideologies and climate change denial, and I have been very interested of Dr. Taciano Milfonts research on the topic. I was therefore very happy to get the opportunity to work with him and visit the CACR.
During my three-month internship, I participated in planning and conducting a cross-cultural study that investigates various research questions related to environmental attitudes and behavior. I was also writing an article with Taciano. I took part of lab activities, such as the weekly cross-cultural meetings which provided interesting insight on different kinds of research topics and methods.
I have definitely learned a lot during my internship, and developed as a researcher. I enjoyed being a part of the intercultural and friendly working group at the CACR. People at the CARC are talented and supporting, and I will miss them.
Areas of interest
Sociopolitical ideologies, climate change denial, environmental attitudes and behavior, prejudice, intergroup relations
Publications
Articles
Jylhä, K. M. & Akrami, N. (2015). Social dominance orientation and climate change denial: The role of dominance and system justification. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 108-111.
Häkkinen, K. & Akrami, N. (2014). Ideology and climate change denial. Personality and Individual Differences, 70, 62-65.
Conference presentations
Jylhä, K. M. & Akrami, N. (August 2015). Sociopolitical ideology and environmentalism: Social dominance orientation as a primary predictor of climate change denial. The 11th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology, Groningen, Netherlands.
Häkkinen, K. & Akrami, N. (November 2014). Ideology and climate change denial. Swedish area group meeting in environmental psychology, Lund.
Häkkinen, K. & Akrami, N. (July 2014). Ideology and climate change denial [Poster]. The 37th annual scientific meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Rome, Italy.Häkkinen, K. & Akrami, N. (February 2014).Political orientation and climate-change denial: The effect of climate-related anxiety[Poster]. The 15thannual meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, USA.