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About me

I am Jaakko Tammilehto, psychologist (M.A.) and doctoral researcher in the Doctoral Programme of Psychology and Logopaedics. In my dissertation, I study (a) the long-term development of emotion regulation as well as (b) the short-term dynamics of emotion regulation in daily life. You can find my CV below.

My special interests include:

Attachment theory

Psychological dynamics

Psychometrics

Evolutionary–developmental theory

Novel models of psychopathology (HiTOP, Network theory, Evolutionary Psychopathology, Research Domain Criteria)

Statistical modeling

Open Science

Good scientific practices

Top achievements

The Best Health Psychology Master's Thesis Award 2017, The Finnish Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology 

Mission statement

Member of the Test Board of the Finnish Psychology Association 2023–2025

Member of the Board of the Finnisch Psychological Society, 2023–

Research topics

Emotion regulation, Psychological dynamics, Attachment theory, Family relations, Cognitive self-control, Evolutionary-developmental theory, Sensitive periods, Intensive longitudinal data

Research fields

Personality Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Emotions

Funding

Eino Jutikkala Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Otto A. Malm Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Wihuri Foundation

Selected publications

Tammilehto, J., Kuppens, P., Bosmans, G., Flykt, M., Peltonen, K., Vänskä, M., & Lindblom, J. Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life. Journal of Research in Personality. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104398

Tammilehto, J., Flykt, M., Peltonen, Kuppens, P., Bosmans, G., & Lindblom, J. Roles of recalled parenting experiences and effortful control in adult daily emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 37(4), 795–817. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2209711

Tammilehto, J., Bosmans, G., Kuppens, P., Flykt, M., Peltonen, K., Kerns, K., & Lindblom, J. (2022). Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: Uni- and bidirectional associations. Cognition and Emotion, 36(6), 1109–1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2081534

Tammilehto, J., Punamäki, R.-L., Flykt, M., Vänskä, M., Heikkilä, L. M., Lipsanen, J., Poikkeus, P., Tiitinen, A., & Lindblom, J. (2021). Developmental stage-specific effects of parenting on adolescents’ emotion regulation: A longitudinal study from infancy to late adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1572. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.582770

Punamäki, R. L., Tammilehto, J., Flykt, M., Vänskä, M., Tiitinen, A., Poikkeus, P., & Lindblom, J. (2022). Determinants of adolescent sleep: Early family environment, obstetric factors, and emotion regulation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 80, 101420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101420

Latest publications

CV

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