My research program focuses on issues of digital citizenship, or in other words, how we interact with the online world and the ways this impacts our lives. I am working on three inter-connected reserch streams (1) e-health literacy and health information seeking online (2) online sexual communication and consent, and (3) technology-facilitated sexual violence (e.g., deepfake/AI pornography, non-consensual intimate image dissemination).

13 Karasavva, V. Miller, C., Groves, N., Montiel, A., Mikami, A. (2025). A double-edged hashtag: Evaluation of #ADHD-related TikTok Content and its Associations with Perceptions of ADHD. PloS one. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319335

12.Mikami, A., Khalis, A., Karasavva, V. (2024). Logging out or leaning in? Social media strategies for enhancing wellbeing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001668

11. Karasavva, V., Stewart, J., Reynolds, J., Forth, A. (2024). The Aggrieved entitlement scale: A new measure for an old problem. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241280973

10. Karasavva, V., Mikami, A. (2024). I’ll be there for you? Bystander intervention in cyber aggression. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 18(2): 1 – 25. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2024-2-1

9. Karasavva, V., Burnet, L., Smodis, A., Swanek J., Forth, A. (2023). Putting the Y in Cyberflashing: Exploring the Prevalence and Predictors of the Reasons for Sending Unsolicited Nude or Sexual Images. Computers in Human Behavior. 1 – 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107593

8. Karasavva, V., Swanek. J., Smodis, A., Forth, A. (2022). From myth to reality: Sexual image abuse myth acceptance and non-consensual intimate image dissemination proclivity. Journal of Sexual Aggression. 1 – 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2022.2032430

7. Karasavva, V., Swanek, J., Smodis, A., Forth, A. (2022). Expectations VS reality: Expected and typical affective reactions to unsolicited sexual images. Computers in Human Behavior. 130: 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107181

6. Karasavva, V., Forth, A. (2021). Personality, attitudinal, and demographic predictors of non-consensual dissemination of intimate images. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI: 10.1177/08862605211043586. 

5. Karasavva V., Noorbhai, A. (2021). The real threat of deepfakes: Policy review and suggestions. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 24(3): 203–209. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0272

4. Sharif, N., Karasavva, V., Thai, H., Farrell, S. (2021). “We’re working in a trauma avoidant culture”: A qualitative study exploring ACT providers perspectives of trauma and PTSD in clients. Community Mental Health Journal. 1 – 11. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015909611028

3. Sharif, N., Karasavva, V., Farrell, S. (2021). One size doesn’t fit all: Gender differences in trauma, PTSD, substance use, and the SMI-PTSD conceptual model in persons with severe mental illness. Psychosis. 13(2), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2020.1839123

2. Karasavva, V. (2019). The fear factor: Fear deficits in psychopathy as an index of limbic dysregulation. Journal of Young Investigators, 36(6), 73 – 80. DOI: 10.22186/jyi.36.6.73-80

1. Karasavva, V. (2019). The implication of the corticotropin releasing factor in nicotine dependence and what this means for pharmacotherapy in smoking cessation. Journal of Young Investigators, 36(3), 36 – 43. DOI: 10.22186/jyi.36.3.36-43

• Social Science and Humanities (SSHRC) Vanier scholarship
• Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Sex and Gender Trainee Award at the International Academy of Sex Research
• President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, UBC
• Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, UBC
• People’s Choice Poster Award – Women’s+ Health Trainee Conference
• Paskins Award, UBC