Mirka Hintsanen
PhD
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Psychology
My research interests are related to several areas of psychology spanning from personality and developmental psychology to health and work psychology. I began my career by examining associations of work stress with atherosclerosis. Since then I moved to examining personality traits as predictors of health and well-being, development of personality, acute and chronic stress, gene x environment interactions, and intergenerational transmission of psychosocial factors. Currently, I am especially interested in compassion, its development and outcomes. I conduct multidisciplinary research in collaboration with colleagues from different fields like genetics, medicine and psychiatry.
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- Personality traits, Compassion, Self-compassion, Stress, Health, Well-being, Mindfulness, Gene-environment interactions
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