A5036229634- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Ancient Near East History
- Turkish Literature and Culture
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
MEF University
2016-2022
Işık University
2015
Boğaziçi University
2010
University of Kent
2009
Results of five studies (N = 1596) linked collective narcissism—a belief in in–group exaggerated greatness contingent on external validation—to direct and indirect, retaliatory hostility response to situations that narcissists perceived as insulting the but which fell well beyond definition an insult. In Turkey, responded with schadenfreude European economic crisis after feeling humiliated by Turkish wait be admitted Union (Study 1). Portugal, they supported hostile actions towards Germans...
Abstract While a great deal is known about the individual difference factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, much less country‐level that shape people's willingness to believe theories. In current article we discuss possibility theories might be shaped by perception (and reality) of poor economic performance at national level. To test this notion, surveyed 6723 participants from 36 countries. line predictions, propensity was negatively perceptions and future vitality. Furthermore,...
Abstract The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples 30 countries ( N = 12,788) find that higher see social system as more legitimate than those lower status, but there is variation across countries. association was never negative at any levels of eight moderator variables, although positive sometimes reduced. Although not always...
The present study looks at the effects of familiarity among group members on collaborative inhibition, false memory creation, and social contagion. Friend, nonfriend (adhoc) nominal three-person groups studied categorized wordlists, followed by free recall recognition tests, including remember/know judgments. Friend were asked to engage in recall, while tested individually. Results showed that inhibition was evident friend groups. However, these detrimental collaboration disappeared during...
Pathogens represent a significant threat to human health leading the emergence of strategies designed help manage their negative impact. We examined how spiritual beliefs developed explain and predict devastating effects pathogens spread infectious disease. Analysis existing data in studies 1 2 suggests that moral vitalism (beliefs about forces evil) is higher geographical regions characterized by historical levels pathogens. Furthermore, drawing on sample 3140 participants from 28 countries...
Abstract Happiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm that ironically compromises individual well-being. In multi-national study (40 countries; 7443 participants), we investigate how pressure happy not sad predicts emotional, cognitive clinical indicators of well-being around the world, examine these relations differ...
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level historical size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which play a role. We present first multi-national exploration moral expansiveness—that is, people’s circles across countries. found low generalized trust, greater perceptions breakdown in social fabric society, perceived economic inequality were...
Based on an integration of research ingroup projection, self-anchoring and social identification, three experiments investigated whether projection characteristics to a superordinate category would be moderated by both the perceived complexity (number defining prototypes) coherence (structural clarity, organization) category. We predicted that prevented presence either complex or coherent representation. However, we also reduce at expense while not. observed interaction between in studies:...
People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice - known social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex more forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found countries individuals who made socially mindful choices were linked a higher country environmental performance proxy for cooperation. Here we replicated this initial finding 41 samples around the...
Research suggests anxiety impairs attentional control; however, this effect has been unreliable. We argue that anxiety's impairment of control is subtle, and can be obscured by other non-emotional sources control. demonstrate examining conflict adaptation, an enhancement in following a trial with high between distracter target stimuli. Participants completed Stroop task featuring incongruent (e.g. RED green font; high-conflict) +++ low-conflict) trials. More state-anxious participants showed...
The rapid, objective measurement of spider fear is important for clinicians, and researchers studying fear. To facilitate this, we adapted the Fear Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ) into Turkish. FSQ quick to complete easy understand. Compared commonly used Spider Phobia Questionnaire, it has shown superior test-retest reliability better discrimination lower levels fear, facilitating research in non-clinical samples. In two studies, with 137 105 undergraduates unselected volunteers, our showed...
Abstract The present research focuses on the cognitive embodiment of physical proximity, through interpersonal distance’s relationship with self‐construal, gender, and social dominance orientation. Previous work showed that more independent self‐construal was associated higher distancing preferences participants, females tend to have interdependent lead them prefer less distance. We expected replicate these findings. However, due between power distance, it argued gender perceptions regarding...
Discrepancies between one's own beliefs, standards and practices the expected by others are associated with increased vulnerability to depression anxiety. Perhaps most important personal standard is morality, of acceptable behaviour. We therefore reason that perceived discrepancies moral those society predict anxious depressed moods. tested this hypothesis, for first time, in a sample 99 female Turkish students. Moral were assessed using an adapted foundations scale: participants asked how...
Moral vitalism refers to a tendency view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people events. The Vitalism Scale had been designed assess moral in brief survey form. Previous studies established the reliability validity of scale US-American Australian samples. In this study, cross-cultural comparability was tested across 28 different cultural groups worldwide through measurement invariance tests. A series exact tests marginally supported partial metric invariance, however, an...
Abstract There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels economic inequality—that is, the wealthy perceived as more competent and assertive poor incompetent unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies also examines role wealth‐based categorization explaining relationship. We found who inequality were indeed likely to consider wealth meaningful basis for categorization. Unexpectedly, however,...
The purpose of this article is to explore potential motivations perform organisational citizenship behaviour ( OCB ) in collectivistic Turkish and South Korean societies. Although collectivism has been proposed as a predictor , previous research not fully explored the possibility that individuals' may result from their self‐oriented motives (i.e. social desirability concerns) or future‐oriented long‐term orientation concerns). We predicted stems concerns among collectivists, meaning it used...
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level historical size of our ‘moral circles’. There has, however, been less attention focused on which play a role. We present first multi-national exploration moral expansiveness – is people’s circles across countries. found low generalized trust, greater perceptions breakdown in social fabric society, perceived economic inequality were associated...