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Overview

Timo Lajunen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research spans several interconnected fields within psychology and social sciences, focusing particularly on topics related to traffic safety, human behavior, and risk management.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader areas, Timo Lajunen's work covers specialized subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Attitudes Toward Four Levels of Self-Driving Technology Among Elderly Drivers," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Self-Assessed Driving Skills and Risky Driver Behaviour Among Young Drivers: A Cross-Sectional Study," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Timo Lajunen commonly collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Mark J. M. Sullman
  • Menelaos Apostolou
  • Esma Gaygısız
  • Türker Özkan
  • Yeşim Üzümcüoğlu

Their research has been published repeatedly in certain academic venues known for contributions to psychology and traffic safety, such as:

  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Antibiotics
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention

Best Publications

  • Can we trust self-reports of driving? Effects of impression management on driver behaviour questionnaire responses

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Heikki Summala

  • The Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire: a cross-cultural study

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Dianne Parker;Heikki Summala

  • Are aggressive people aggressive drivers? A study of the relationship between self-reported general aggressiveness, driver anger and aggressive driving

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Dianne Parker

  • Driving experience, personality, and skill and safety-motive dimensions in drivers' self-assessments

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Heikki Summala

  • Cross-cultural differences in driving behaviours: A comparison of six countries

    Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen;Joannes E. Chliaoutakis;Dianne Parker

  • Dimensions of driver anger, aggressive and highway code violations and their mediation by safety orientation in UK drivers

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Dianne Parker;Stephen G. Stradling

  • Attitudinal predictors of interpersonally aggressive violations on the road

    Dianne Parker;Timo Juhani Lajunen;Stephen G. Stradling

  • What causes the differences in driving between young men and women? The effects of gender roles and sex on young drivers’ driving behaviour and self-assessment of skills

    Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen

  • Can social psychological models be used to promote bicycle helmet use among teenagers? A comparison of the Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior and the Locus of Control

    Timo Juhani Lajunen;Mikko Rasanen

  • A New Addition to DBQ: Positive Driver Behaviours Scale

    Türker Özkan;Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen

  • Social psychology of seat belt use: A comparison of theory of planned behavior and health belief model

    Ozlem Simşekoğlu;Timo Juhani Lajunen

  • Interpersonal violations, speeding violations and their relation to accident involvement in Finland.

    Jolieke Mesken;Timo Juhani Lajunen;Heikki Summala

  • BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AS THE DISTAL PREDICTORS OF ROAD ACCIDENT

    Nebi Sümer;Timo Lajunen;Türker Özkan

  • Driver Behaviour Questionnaire: a follow-up study

    Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen;Heikki Summala

  • Personality and accident liability: Are extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism related to traffic and occupational fatalities?

    Timo Lajunen

  • Anger and aggression among drivers in three European countries

    Dianne Parker;Timo Juhani Lajunen;Heikki Summala

  • Does Internet use reflect your personality? Relationship between Eysenck's personality dimensions and Internet use

    Leman Pinar Tosun;Timo Lajunen

  • The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire in Arab Gulf countries: Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

    Abdulbari Bener;Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen

  • Masculinity femininity and the Bem Sex Role Inventory in Turkey.

    Tiirker Özkan;Tiirker Özkan;Timo Lajunen

  • Professional and non-professional drivers’ stress reactions and risky driving

    B Öz;Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen

  • Multidimensional Traffic Locus of Control Scale (T-LOC): factor structure and relationship to risky driving

    Türker Özkan;Timo Juhani Lajunen

Frequent Co-Authors

Heikki Summala
Heikki Summala University of Helsinki
David Crundall
David Crundall Nottingham Trent University
David Shinar
David Shinar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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