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Ari Haukkala was affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research centered primarily on topics within medicine and psychology, with a significant focus on behavioral health and interventions as well as obesity, physical activity, and diet. The scientist contributed extensively to studies related to public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, and applied psychology.

Their work spanned several main fields of study including:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these fields, they published research in a number of subfields, notably:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Physiology
  • Applied Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology

Haukkala's publications covered a wide array of topics such as:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Notable recent papers include:

  • "App-based food Go/No-Go training: User engagement and dietary intake in an opportunistic observational study," 2021, published in Appetite
  • "Association between educational level and smoking cessation in an 11-year follow-up study of a national health survey," 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • "No evidence of calorie-related modulation of N2 in food-related Go/No-Go training: A preregistered ERP study," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Perception and Risk Indicators: a 5-Year Follow-up," 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • "Individual-, home- and preschool-level correlates of preschool children's sedentary time," 2020, BMC Pediatrics

Frequent co-authors in Haukkala's collaborations included:

  • Matthias Burkard Aulbach
  • Nelli Hankonen
  • Keegan Knittle
  • Hanna Konttinen
  • Vera Araújo-Soares

Haukkala published across several journals and venues with recurrent works appearing in:

  • Appetite
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Psychophysiology
  • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • BMC Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Emotional eating, depressive symptoms and self-reported food consumption. A population-based study.

    Hanna Konttinen;Satu Männistö;Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva;Karri Silventoinen

  • Fish Consumption and Depressive Symptoms in the General Population in Finland

    Antti Tanskanen;Joseph R. Hibbeln;Jaakko Tuomilehto;Antti Uutela

  • Smoking, alcohol use, and physical activity: a 13-year longitudinal study ranging from adolescence into adulthood.

    Meri Paavola;Erkki Vartiainen;Ari Haukkala

  • Depression, emotional eating and long-term weight changes: a population-based prospective study

    Hanna Konttinen;Tatjana van Strien;Tatjana van Strien;Satu Männistö;Pekka Jousilahti

  • Socio-economic disparities in the consumption of vegetables, fruit and energy-dense foods: the role of motive priorities

    Hanna Konttinen;Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva;Karri Silventoinen;Satu Männistö

  • Emotional eating and physical activity self-efficacy as pathways in the association between depressive symptoms and adiposity indicators

    Hanna Konttinen;Karri Silventoinen;Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva;Satu Männistö

  • Eating styles, self-control and obesity indicators. The moderating role of obesity status and dieting history on restrained eating

    Hanna Konttinen;Ari Haukkala;Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva;Karri Silventoinen

  • Depression and smoking cessation: the role of motivation and self-efficacy.

    Ari Haukkala;Antti Uutela;Erkki Vartiainen;Alfred Mcalister

  • Comparing sense of coherence, depressive symptoms and anxiety, and their relationships with health in a population-based study.

    Hanna Konttinen;Ari Haukkala;Antti Uutela

  • Smoking from adolescence to adulthood: the effects of parental and own socioeconomic status.

    Meri Paavola;Erkki Vartiainen;Ari Haukkala

  • Psychological consequences of predictive genetic testing for hereditary non‐polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC): A prospective follow‐up study

    Katja Aktan-Collan;Ari Haukkala;Jukka-Pekka Mecklin;Antti Uutela

  • Long-term impact of parental divorce on intimate relationship quality in adulthood and the mediating role of psychosocial resources.

    Ulla Mustonen;Taina Huurre;Olli Kiviruusu;Ari Haukkala

  • Hostility, anger control, and anger expression as predictors of cardiovascular disease.

    Ari Haukkala;Hanna Konttinen;Tiina Laatikainen;Ichiro Kawachi

  • ‘Let’s Move It’ – a school-based multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among older adolescents in vocational secondary schools: a study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial

    Nelli Elisa Hankonen;Nelli Elisa Hankonen;Matti Toivo Juhani Heino;Vera Araujo-Soares;Falko F Sniehotta

  • Morningness–eveningness, depressive symptoms, and emotional eating: A population-based study

    Hanna Konttinen;Erkki Kronholm;Timo Partonen;Noora Kanerva

  • What explains the socioeconomic status gap in activity? Educational differences in determinants of physical activity and screentime

    Nelli Elisa Hankonen;Nelli Elisa Hankonen;Matti Tj Heino;Emilia Kujala;Sini-Tuuli Maria Hynynen

  • Why share expertise?: A closer look at the quality of motivation to share or withhold knowledge

    Minna Stenius;Nelli Hankonen;Niklas Ravaja;Ari Haukkala

  • Implicit process interventions in eating behaviour: a meta-analysis examining mediators and moderators.

    Matthias Burkard Aulbach;Keegan Phillip Knittle;Ari Heikki Haukkala

  • Direct contact in inviting high-risk members of hereditary colon cancer families to genetic counselling and DNA-testing

    Katja Aktan-Collan;Ari Haukkala;Kirsi Pylvänäinen;Heikki J Järvinen

  • Challenges and solutions for N-of-1 design studies in health psychology

    Dominika Kwasnicka;Dominika Kwasnicka;Jennifer Inauen;Wim Nieuwenboom;Johanna Nurmi;Johanna Nurmi

Frequent Co-Authors

Satu Männistö
Satu Männistö Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Antti Uutela
Antti Uutela Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Tellervo Korhonen
Tellervo Korhonen University of Helsinki
Karri Silventoinen
Karri Silventoinen University of Helsinki
Niklas Ravaja
Niklas Ravaja University of Helsinki
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Olli Kiviruusu
Olli Kiviruusu Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mauri Marttunen
Mauri Marttunen University of Helsinki
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Hein de Vries
Hein de Vries Maastricht University

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