Full Time Faculty

İ. Ercan Alp, Ph.D.

Developmental

  • Measurement of attachment style in adults and children
  • Cognitive development in very young children
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Bilge Ataca, Ph.D.

Social

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Acculturation; immigrant and sojourner adaptation
  • Family and social bonds
  • Self and culture
  • Intergroup relations
  • Prejudice
  • Discrimination
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Ayşecan Boduroğlu, Ph.D.

Cognitive

  • Visuospatial working memory
  • Trainability of executive functions
  • Aging
  • Culture and Cognition
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Reşit Canbeyli, Ph.D.

Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Psychobiology/Behavioral neuroscience
  • Animal models in depression, learned helplessness and dementia
  • Biological rhythms
  • Hemispheric asymmetries
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Feyza Çorapçı, Ph.D.

Clinical / Developmental

  • Parental Emotion Socialization
  • Emotional Self-Regulation
  • Children in Poverty
  • Home and Daycare Chaos
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Güler Okman Fişek, Ph.D.

Clinical

  • Psychotherapy in a changing culture
  • Migration and social change effects
  • Self-development in the family context
  • Family interaction in health
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M. Hamit Fişek, Ph.D.

Social

  • Interpersonal processes in small groups
  • Status and legitimation processes
  • Distributive justice and related behaviors
  • Interpersonal evaluations and task performance
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Falih Köksal, Ph.D.

Clinical / Learning

  • Classical conditioning in the sexual behavior of animals
  • Observational learning
  • Effects of anxiety on visual attention
  • Anxiety disorders
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Esra Mungan, Ph.D.

Cognitive

  • Music Memory
  • Directed Forgetting
  • Memory Judgments
  • False Memories
  • Evolutionary Psychology
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Serra Müderrisoğlu, Ph.D.

Clinical

  • Impact of mentoring on psycho-social development of at risk youth
  • Cross cultural factors in psychopathology and psychotherapy
  • Psychoneuroimmunology
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Ali İ. Tekcan, Ph.D.

Cognitive

  • Autobiographical & Flashbulb Memory
  • Metacognition
  • Collective Memory
  • Experimental Psychopathology
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Nur Yeniçeri, Ph.D.

Clinical

  • Neuropsychological Testing
  • Clinical Assessment
  • Child Psychopathology
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Adjunct Faculty

Ayhan Aksu Koç, Ph.D.

Developmental

  • Language acquisition and cognitive development
  • Narrative abilities in children and adults
  • Literacy development
  • Social, educational, and contextual influences on language acquisition
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Diane Sunar, Ph.D.

Social

  • Child-rearing practices & Turkish family
  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Emotion & emotional expression
  • Justice & reciprocity
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Assistants

Elif Aydın
  • Depression
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Developmental biology especially axon guidance and computational neuroscience
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Dilek Çelik
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Developmental trajectories of the children in conflict with law
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Ahu Erdoğan
  • Autobiographical Memory
  • Self Defining Memories
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Onur İyilikçi
  • Biological rhythms
  • Animal models of depression, navigational learning
  • Laterality
  • Rationality and evolutionary psychology
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Burcu Kaya Kızılöz, MA
  • False Memory
  • Flashbulb Memory
  • Metacognition
  • Feeling of Knowing Judgements
  • Working Memory and Visuospatial Sketchpad
  • Memory in Oral Traditions
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Gülsen Kumru
  • Classical conditioning in the sexual behavior of animals
  • Observational learning
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A. Çağlar Taş
  • Face Recognition
  • Race Perception
  • Eye Movements
  • Visual Attention
  • Directed Forgetting
  • Childhood Amnesia
  • Reminiscence Bump
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