Anna
Soveri
Docent, Psychology
Academy Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Vaccine hesitancy - motives and intervention; JITSUVAX H2020, https://sks.to/jitsuvax
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Areas of expertise
vaccine attitudes
vaccination behavior
working memory
executive functions
Biography
I have a master's degree in the Swedish language (year 2005) and a master's degree in psychology (year 2006) from the Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) in Turku, Finland. I obtained my PhD in psychology in 2013 at ÅAU. After that I worked as a post doctoral researcher in the BrainTrain project at the psychology department at the ÅAU 2013-2017. In 2018, I was awarded the title of docent in cognitive psychology at the University of Turku (UTU). Since 2018, I have been working as an Academy Research Fellow at UTU investigating vaccine attitudes in Finland. This project continues until 2023. During the upcoming years (April 2021-December 2023), I will also be the PI of the Finnish team in an project at UTU that is lead by the University of Bristol and investigates attitudes towards vaccinations among health care workers in five European countries and develops tools to tackle vaccine hesitancy. This project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme.
Research
The two main aims of my current research projects are to investigate the motives behind vaccine hesitancy and refusal of vaccines, and to develop and test techniques that can be used to improve vaccine-related communication between health authorities, health care workers, scientists, and the general public.
Publications
An instrument to measure psychosocial determinants of health care professionals' vaccination behavior: Validation of the Pro-VC-Be questionnaire (2022)
Expert Review of Vaccines
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Measuring psychosocial determinants of vaccination behavior in healthcare professionals: validation of the Pro-VC-Be short-form questionnaire (2022)
Expert Review of Vaccines
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The behavioral immune system and vaccination intentions during the coronavirus pandemic (2022)
Personality and Individual Differences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19 (2021)
Personality and Individual Differences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Unwillingness to engage in behaviors that protect against COVID-19: the role of conspiracy beliefs, trust, and endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (2021)
BMC Public Health
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
”Pakkopiikin aika?” – Pakko saattaa vähentää rokote-epäröijien luottamusta viranomaisia kohtaan (2021)
MustRead
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Transfer of simulated interview training effects into interviews with children exposed to a mock event (2020)
Nordic Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The factorial structure of the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale in two Finnish samples (2020)
Nordic Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The role of strategy use in working memory training outcomes (2020)
Journal of Memory and Language
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Working memory training restores aberrant brain activity in adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (2020)
Human Brain Mapping
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))