Ali İ. Tekcan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Boğaziçi University / Department of Psychology
Bebek, 34342 İstanbul, Turkey.
Ph: +90 212 359 70 51 | Fax: +90 212 287 24 72
e-mail: ali.tekcan@boun.edu.tr
Education
- PhD, American University, 1999
- MA, American University, 1996
- BA, Boğaziçi University, 1989
Courses Taught
- Cognitive Psychology
- Human Memory
- Introduction to Statistics for Psychology I & II
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Advanced Cognitive Psychology
- Advanced Research Methods I & II
- Metacognition
Research Interests
- Autobiographical & Flashbulb Memory
- Metacognition
- Collective Memory
- Experimental Psychopathology
Recent Publications
Tekcan, A. İ. (under revision). Flashbulb memories across the life span.
Tekcan, A.İ., Taş, A. Ç., Topçuoğlu, V., & Yücel, B. (in press). Memory bias in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from directed forgetting. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
Erdoğan, A., Baran, B., Avlar, B., Taş, Ç, & Tekcan, A. İ. (in press). On the persistence of positive events in life scripts. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Tekcan, A. İ., Topçuoğlu, V., & Kaya, B. (2007). Memory and metamemory for semantic information in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2164-2172.
Tuna, Ş., Tekcan, A. İ., & Topçuoğlu, V. (2005). Memory and metamemory in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 15-27.
Aydemir, N., Özkara, Ç., Canbeyli, R., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2004). The quality of life and self-perspective changes related to surgery in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 5, 735-742.
Küntay, A. C., Gülgöz, S., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2004). Disputed memories of twins: How ordinary are they? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 405-413.
Tekcan, A. İ., Ece, B., Gülgöz, S., & Er, N. (2003). Autobiographical and event memory for 9/11: Change across one year. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 1057-1066.
İkier, S., Tekcan, A. İ., Gülgöz, S., & Küntay, A. C. (2003). Whose life is it anyway? Adoption of each other’s autobiographical memories by twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 237-247.
Tekcan, A. İ., Göz, İ., Yalçın, S., Akırmak, Ü., Serbest, S., Fırat, C., & Rodoplu, S.(2002). Yazılı Türkçenin Kelime Sıklığı Sözlüğü’nün Geçerliği Üzerine Bir Çalışma. Türk Psikoloji Dergisi, 17, 27-42.
Tekcan, A. İ., & Peynircioğlu, Z. F. (2002). Effects of age on flashbulb memories. Psychology and Aging, 17, 416-422.
Tekcan, A. İ., & Peynircioğlu, Z. F. (2001) Keşif etkisi: Yüzlerin tanınmasında test koşullarının etkisi. Türk Psikoloji Dergisi, 16, 57-68.
Tekcan, A. İ., & Aktürk, M. (2001). Are you sure you forgot? Feeling of knowing in directed forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1487-1490.
Tekcan, A. İ. (2001). Flashbulb memories for a negative and a positive event: News of Desert Storm and acceptance to college. Psychological Reports, 88, 323-331.
Peynircioğlu, Z. F., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2000). Feeling of knowing for translations of words. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 135-148.
