Legal Psychology Åbo Akademi

Legal psychology research group at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.

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We invite you to follow our project @PsychAID that develops best-practice interviewing and decision-making to the asylum context and train European asylum officials. We are very excited over this ambitious research program. Please share and follow.

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📢 Psych-AID is now on Facebook!

The Psych-AID network now has an official Facebook page where you can follow our work and stay updated on our ongoing data collections.

👉 Follow us on Facebook: https://t.co/U8zd0lY7z0!

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📢 New paper alert!
📑 The paper presents field-based reflections from a training programme for Finnish asylum officials, identifying organisational challenges and their implications for interview practices and well-being.

🔗 https://t.co/QyGesNOG1g

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Calling all Finnish-speaking master's degree holders! There is still time to participate in our study on the factors that influence asylum decision-making. Completing the survey takes no more than 5 minutes!

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📢 New pre-print alert! In their new manuscript, @jan_antfolk, @Stevens_Laura7, Emilia Lundsten, @JennySkrifvars & @hedayat_selim use data from 255 respondents to investigate how personal immigration attitudes, gender, and age shape beliefs about asylum decisions. Link below!

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We are very excited to introduce you to our fab research team! @janantfolk is our Principal Investigator. He has conducted extensive research in legal psychology, including on asylum procedures. Reach out with questions about Jan’s research or for collaborations!

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📢 Study participants needed! Do you speak Finnish and hold a masters degree? Help us investigate the factors influencing asylum decision-making by answering researcher Juliana Raitis' questionnaire. Participating takes no more than 5 minutes! https://t.co/Ie6pT9OIuK

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Last week, our doctoral researchers Obed Kwame Appiah, Malin Ekelund, and Rasmus Ahlgren represented the Psych-AID Network by presenting their doctoral projects at the Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab workshop at the University of Copenhagen.

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The 2024 annual report of Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi / The Åbo Akademi Foundation has been published! Among the highlights featured is our very own Centre of Excellence, @PsychAID , led by PI @jan_antfolk. Read it below here (available in Swedish)!
https://t.co/CIkWGeKBBO

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We are very excited to introduce you to our fab research team! @hedayat_selim is a doctoral researcher within @PsychAID, finalizing her thesis on credibility assessment of identity-based asylum claims. Reach out to us with questions about Hedayat’s research or for collaborations!

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Postdoctoral researcher @JennySkrifvars delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking talk about her training for asylum officials last Wednesday at @INVEST_Flagship! In case you missed it, you can access the content of her presentation here: https://t.co/s87YGUw0jE

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🎧 New podcast alert! Our project co-investigator, Professor of Practice @jkorkman, was recently interviewed by Oikeuspsykologia (the Forensic Psychology Podcast) about the role of legal psychology in asylum interviewing and decision-making. Available in Finnish. Link below!

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Our PI @jan_antfolk presented research today at #APLS2025 on questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities. Findings show low use of open questions and reliance on western narratives of sexuality. Further research and training is needed!

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NEW PRE PRINT ALERT!
Doctoral researcher @hedayat_selim and @PsychAID colleagues have conducted research on reasons reported by applicants for late disclosures of sexual orientation and consequences on the asylum decision.
Read full pre-print here - https://t.co/WaEhb5LokY

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NEW PAPER ALERT!

Post Doctoral researcher @JennySkrifvars, with @jan_antfolk & @jkorkman, in collaboration with @Maahanmuuttovir created and evaluated a training programme for asylum officials in legal psychology.

Read full article here - https://t.co/lIUU5qKyvW

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Interested in a post doc fellowship investigating interviewing & decision making in the asylum context?
We would be pleased to sponsor applications to the ERC MSCA Post Doc Fellowship 2025 from researchers interested in staying with our team at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

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We officially launched our Psych-AID Network last Friday. Thank you to all of our speakers @Maahanmuuttovir, @FGaroff, @sara_landstrom, @jan_antfolk, @jkorkman, @JennySkrifvars, @hedayat_selim , Rasmus Ahlgren, @oak27oak, and Malin Ekelund.

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You can now find us over on BlueSky. Come follow us!
https://t.co/GQYXezZS6e

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We are excited to launch our Network website! Check out our site for more information on our project, team, publications, and events! Find the site here - https://t.co/ijxPD6uqJP

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Read new manuscript by our fantastic doctoral researcher @hedayat_selim here!

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@hedayat_selim presenting her stellar work on Credibility Assessment of Asylum Claims based on Religion at the conference Religion as a Ground for International Protection organized by the project Migration and Religion in International Law at Luiss University in Rome.