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Bilge Ataca

Bilge Ataca, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Boğaziçi University / Department of Psychology
Bebek, 34342 İstanbul, Turkey.
Ph: +90 212 359 70 62   |   Fax: +90 212 287 24 72
e-mail: ataca@boun.edu.tr

Education

PhD, Queen's University, 1998
MA, Boğaziçi University, 1992
BA, Boğaziçi University, 1990

Courses Taught

  • Social Psychology
  • Social Influences
  • Culture & Behavior
  • Research Methods in Psychology I & II
  • Selected Topics in Psychology and Culture
  • Advanced Social Psychology I & II

Research Interests

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Acculturation; immigrant and sojourner adaptation
  • Family and social bonds
  • Self and culture
  • Intergroup relations
  • Prejudice
  • Discrimination

Recent Publications

Aşkun, D., & Ataca, B. (in press). Sexuality related attitudes and behaviours of Turkish university students. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Berry, J. W., & Ataca, B. (in press). Cultural factors in stress. In G. Fink (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Stress (2nd Ed.). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Ataca, B. (2006). Turkey. In J. Georgas, J. W. Berry, F. J. R. van de Vijver, Ç. Kağıtçıbaşı & Y. H. Poortinga (Eds.), Families across cultures: A 30 nation psychological study (pp. 467 - 474). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç., & Ataca, B. (2005). Value of children and family change: A three decade portrait from Turkey. Applied Psychology:International Review, 54, 317-337.

Ataca, B., Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç., & Diri, A. (2005). Turkish family and the value of children: Trends over time. In G. Trommsdorff & B. Nauck (Eds.), The value of children in cross-cultural perspective. Case studies from eight societies (pp. 91-119). Lengerich: Pabst Publishers.

Bond, M. H., Leung, K., Au, A., Tong, K., de Carrasquel, S. R., Murakami, F., Yamaguchi, S., Bierbrauer, G., Singelis, T., Broer, M., Boen, F., Lambert, S., Ferreira, M. C., Noels, K., van Bavel, J., Safdar, S., Zhang, J., Chen, L., Solcova, I., Stetovska, I., Niit, T., Niit, K., Hurme, H., Böling, M., Franchi, V., Magradze, G., Javakhishvili, N., Boehnke, K., Klinger, E., Huang, X., Fulop, M., Berkics, M., Panagiotopoulou, P., Sriram, S., Chaudhary, N., Ghosh, A., Vohra, N., Iqbal, D. F., Kurman, J., Comunian, A. L., Ae, S. K., Austers, I., Harb, C., Odusanya, J. O. T., Ahmed, Z. A., Ismail, R., van de Vijver, F., Ward, C., Mogaji, A., Sam, D. L., Khan, M. J. Z., Cabanillas, W. E., Sycip, L., Neto, F., Cabecinhas, R., Xavier, P., Dinca, M., Lebedeva, N., Viskochil, A., Ponomareva, O., Burgess, S. M., Oceja, L., Campo, S., D’souza, J. B., Ataca, B., Furnham, A. & Lewis, J. R. (2004). Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 548-570.

Ataca, B., & Berry, J. W. (2003). Acculturation. In J. J. Ponzetti (Ed.), International encyclopedia of marriageand family, 2nd edition (pp. 14-18). New York: Macmillan.

Ataca, B., & Berry, J. W. (2002). Psychological, sociocultural, and marital adaptation of Turkish immigrant couples in Canada. International Journal of Psychology, 37, 13-26./p>

Georgas, J., Mylonas, K., Bafiti, T., Poortinga, Y. H., Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç., Örüng, S., Sunar, D., Kwak, K., Ataca, B.,Berry, J. W., Charalambous, N., Goodwin, R., Wang, W., Angleitner, A., Stepanikova, I., Pick, S., Givaudan, M., Zhuravliova-Gionis, I., Konantambigi, R., Gelfand, M., Marinova, V., McBride-Chang, C., & Kodiç, Y. (2001). Functional relationships in the nuclear and extended family: A 16 culture study. International Journal of Psychology, 36, 289-300.

Berry, J. W., & Ataca, B. (2000). Cultural factors. In G. Fink (Ed.), Encyclopedia of stress (pp. 604-610). San Diego: Academic Press.

Ataca, B., & Sunar, D. (1999). Continuity and change in Turkish urban family life. Psychology and Developing Societies, 11, 77-90.

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