Ali İ. Tekcan, Ph.D.

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

Aydemir, N.,Tekcan, A. İ. &, Özkara, Ç. (in press). Remembering the first seziure and the diagnosis: How much impact do they have in our lives? Epilepsy & Behavior.

Baran, B.,Tekcan, A. İ.,& Gürvit, H., & Boduroğlu, A. (in press). Episodic memory and metamemory for nouns and verbs in Parkinson's Disease patients. Neuropsychology.

Peker, M.,& Tekcan, A. İ., (2009). The role of familiarity among group members in collaborative inhibition and social contagion.Social Psychology, 40,111-118.

Tekcan, A.İ., Taş, A. Ç., Topçuoğlu, V., & Yücel, B. (2008). Memory bias in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from directed forgetting. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39, 369-380.

Erdoğan, A., Baran, B., Avlar, B., Taş, Ç, & Tekcan, A. İ. (2008). On the persistence of positive events in life scripts. Applied Cognitive Psychology., 22, 95-111.

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.