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Book Part Missing the Good Old Days: Investigating Outgroup Attitudes Through Collective Nostalgia and Global Identification(Taylor and Francis, 2022) Şengül, Denizhan; Doğan, Zeynep; Akkurt, Bengisu; Koç, Yasin; Aksu, Ayça; Anderson, JoelCollective nostalgia is a group-based emotion that refers to the longing for the “good old days” of one's ingroup. Research shows that collective nostalgia usually benefits relationships with other in-group members, while hampering intergroup relations. However, this depends on the past remembered. Moreover, global identification predicts positive intergroup relations, yet this depends on whether the target group is perceived to be aligned with a global culture. Accordingly, we tested how collective nostalgia and global identification can then be linked to inclusionary vs. exclusionary outgroup attitudes in Turkey in relation to Kurds, Armenians, LGBTQ+ individuals and Syrian refugees. The results showed (N = 1090) that collective nostalgia was related to positive attitudes towards Kurds, Armenians and gay men, whereas it was negatively related to attitudes towards Syrian refugees. Moreover, contrary to expectations, we found that global identification predicted positive attitudes towards all outgroups. These findings are not surprising given the changing political climate and increasing intergroup conflict in Turkey. We speculate that the meaning attributed to the “good old days” of Turkey predicted these positive attitudes except for Syrian refugees who are perceived to be today's problem. Overall, the relationship between nostalgia and outgroup attitudes are more complex than research has so far shown, and the content of the past remembered might be important to understand this relationship.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Estimated Probabilities of Positive, Vs. Negative, Events Show Separable Correlations With Covid-19 Preventive Behaviours(Elsevier, 2022) Aksu, Ayça; Booth, Robert W.; Yavuz, Burak Baran; Peker, MüjdeResearch has associated optimism with better health-protective behaviours, but few studies have measured optimism or pessimism directly, by asking participants to estimate probabilities of events. We used these probability estimates to examine how optimism and/or pessimism relate to protecting oneself from COVID-19. When COVID-19 first reached Turkey, we asked a snowball sample of 494 Istanbul adults how much they engaged in various COVID-protective behaviours. They also estimated the probabilities of their catching COVID-19, and of other positive and negative events happening to them. Estimated probability of general positive events (optimism) correlated positively with officially-recommended helpful behaviours (e.g. wearing masks), but not with less-helpful behaviours (e.g. sharing ‘alternative’ COVID-related information online). Estimated probabilities of general negative events (pessimism), or of catching COVID, did not correlate significantly with helpful COVID-related behaviours; but they did correlate with psychopathological symptoms, as did less-helpful COVID-related behaviours. This shows important nuances can be revealed by measuring optimism and pessimism, as separate variables, using probability estimates.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Parental Predictors of Children’s Math Learning Behaviours in Different Cultures(Springer, 2022) Selçuk, Bilge; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin; Niehues, WenkeResearch indicates that parental schoolwork involvement is beneficial for students' academic functioning when parents facilitate their children's autonomy and refrain from psychological controlling practices. However, effects of the quality of parental involvement on child learning outcomes may vary due to cross-cultural differences in children's appraisal and reaction towards these practices. The current study aimed to investigate the link between the quality of parental schoolwork involvement and children's learning-related behaviours in math, and the mediating role of mother-child conflict around math schoolwork in this link in three cultural groups (i.e., German-Turkish, Turkish and German families). Data were collected from 107 German-Turkish, 426 Turkish and 140 German mothers with children in fifth to eighth grades. After testing measurement invariance of the scales across groups, multi-group structural equation modelling was used to examine the direct and indirect paths between the quality of parental involvement, mother-child conflict and child learning-related behaviours. Results showed that the level of mother-child conflict mediated the link between mothers' psychologically controlling practices and children's learning-related behaviours in math in all three groups. No mediation was found for the link between maternal autonomy support and children's learning-related behaviours in any group. However, the direct path from mothers' autonomy support to children's learning-related behaviours was significant in the Turkish and German-Turkish samples. These results suggest that the role of different forms of parental schoolwork involvement in children's academic functioning is more similar than different across cultural groups.Article Interplay of Neighborhood and Psychosocial Factors in Predicting Trajectories of Allostatic Load Among Latinx Adults in the United States(SAGE Publications Inc., 2025) Gutiérrez, Á.; Supiyev, A.; Thomas Tobin, C.; Sevi, B.; Marroig, A.; Voll, S.; Muniz-Terrera, G.Research highlights the independent roles of neighborhood and psychosocial risk and protective factors for accelerated physiological aging. However, the combined role of neighborhood and psychosocial factors for allostatic load among Latinx adults in the U.S. remains unclear. Informed by the Health Disparities Framework, the study aims are to: (1) examine the direct associations between neighborhood (cohesion and disorder) and psychosocial (loneliness) factors, respectively, and allostatic load trajectories; and (2) determine whether family social support moderates the association between loneliness and allostatic load trajectories. Data for Latinx adults ages ≥50 (n = 319) are from the Health and Retirement Study (waves 2006–2016). Linear mixed models estimated baseline and rate of change in allostatic load, adjusting for sociodemographics. Loneliness was positively associated with baseline allostatic load. This association persisted when we considered neighborhood factors. Family social support moderated the association between loneliness and allostatic load slope. As neighborhood features, loneliness, and physiological dysregulation are each associated with worse cognitive outcomes, findings underscore the protective role of family social support for physiological dysregulation, thereby promoting cognitive resilience. © The Author(s) 2025.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 6Should I Invite Them? Bystanders' Inclusivity Judgements Towards Outgroup Victims and Ingroup Bullies in Intergroup Bullying(Wiley, 2021) Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Gönültaş, Seçil; Yavuz, H MelisThis study examined bystanders' judgements of bullying and their inclusivity towards refugee victims and ingroup bully peers. Participants included 587 Turkish adolescents (M-age = 13.14, SD = 1.60) who were presented with two stories: intergroup (Syrian refugee victim) and intragroup (Turkish victim) bullying. They indicated acceptability of bullying, retaliation, and how likely they would be to include victims and bullies in different social contexts. Empathy, prejudice, desired social distance, and peer norms towards Syrian refugees were examined as predictors. Adolescents in schools with a higher number of Syrian peers were more likely to expect they would include the Syrian victim than adolescents in schools with a lower number of Syrian peers. Further, adolescents with higher empathy were more likely to include the Syrian victim while adolescents with higher prejudice and desired social distance were less likely to include the Syrian victim. The results highlight the importance of attending to bystanders' future interactions with victims and bullies, as bystanders have the opportunity to challenge injustice by promoting inclusive school climates in diverse societies. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.Article Citation - WoS: 1Where Should I Search Next? Messages Embedded in Storybooks Influence Children's Strategic Exploration in Turkey and the United States(Amer Psychological Assoc, 2024) Vaisarova, Julie; Kiefer, Sarah L.; Sen, Hilal; Todd, Peter M.; Lucca, KelseyDespite the vital role of curiosity-driven exploration in learning, our understanding of how to enhance children's curiosity remains limited. Here, we tested whether hearing a strategic curiosity story with curiosity-promoting themes (e.g., strategically approaching uncertainty, adapting flexibly to new information) versus a control story with traditional pedagogical themes (e.g., following rules, learning from others) would influence children's strategic exploration across two cultures. Three- to 6-year-olds from the United States (N = 138) and Turkey (N = 88) were randomly assigned to hear one of these stories over Zoom, before playing a game in which they searched for sea creatures across five fish tanks. All tanks had the same number of hiding spots but varied in the number of creatures they contained. Time was limited and children could not return to prior tanks, pushing them to allocate search effort strategically. Results indicated that across both countries, children in the strategic curiosity condition explored the virtual "aquarium" more broadly; they moved through tanks more rapidly than children in the control condition and were more likely to explore all five tanks before time ran out. Children in the strategic curiosity condition also showed relatively more strategic search, adapting their search based on the likelihood of finding creatures in each tank. While further research is needed to pinpoint which elements of our stories produced differences in search behavior and whether they did so by enhancing or inhibiting children's strategic exploration, storybooks appear to be a promising method for shaping children's exploration across multiple countries.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 1Liking Prediction Using fNIRS and Machine Learning: Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods(IEEE, 2022) Koksal, Mehmet Yigit; Çakar, Tuna; Demircioğlu, Esin Tuna; Girisken, YenerThe fMRI method, which is generally used to detect behavioral patterns, draws attention with its expensive and impractical features. On the other hand, near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) method is less expensive and portable, but it is as effective as fMRI in creating a good prediction model. With this method, a model has been developed that can predict whether people like a stimulus or not, using machine learning various algorithms. A comparison was made between feature extraction methods, which was the main focus while developing the model.Conference Object Gain Sensitivity and Cheating: the Role of Psychological Entitlement(Hogrefe, 2023) Şahin, Türkay; Demircan, Nilhan; Koloğlugil, Serhat; Peker, Müjde...Conference Object Interpersonal Factors and Suicidal Behavior During Covid-19 in Young Adults in Turkey(Hogrefe, 2023) Çalışkan, Neslihan; Şahin, Banu Çankaya; Caine, Eric D....Article Sociosexuality Is Associated With Disease Avoidance Tendencies and Can Decrease During a Real-Life Disease Threat(Springer, 2024) Sevi, Baris; Shook, Natalie J.Engaging in uncommitted sexual relationships increases the risk of pathogen transmission through close contact with novel partners. As such, greater disease avoidance tendencies may be associated with lower sociosexuality. Across three studies, we examined this proposition. In Studies 1a and 1b, we cross-sectionally assessed the associations between individual differences in disease avoidance (i.e., germ aversion, perceived infectability) and sociosexuality dimensions (i.e., behavior, attitude, desire). Greater germ aversion was significantly associated with more restricted sociosexuality across all three dimensions and replicated in both samples. Perceived infectibility was associated with more unrestricted sociosexual attitude and desire, but only in Study 1a. In Study 2, we tested whether sociosexuality levels changed with the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants reported more restricted sociosexuality levels during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels, where a decrease was especially seen in sociosexual desire. Further, this decrease in sociosexual desire was predicted by pre-pandemic germ aversion levels. Overall, the findings indicate that disease avoidance tendencies (i.e., germ aversion) and real-life disease threat are associated with lower tendency to engage in uncommitted sexual relationships. Further research is needed to understand the causal relation of these two constructs, which may help in developing interventions and campaigns to support better sexual health.Conference Object Mood-Congruent Autobiographical Remembering in Different Age Groups(2016) Ece, Berivan; Gülgöz, S...Article Big-5 Personality Traits as Predictors of Allostatic Load in Latino Americans: A Longitudinal Study(Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2025) Sevi, Baris; Supiyev, Adil; Gutierrez, Angela; Graham, Eileen K.; Mroczek, Daniel K.; Muniz-Terrera, GracielaObjectives Allostatic load (AL) refers to the measure of cumulative wear and tear resulting from chronic stress and life events. AL presents adverse consequences for a diverse range of health conditions, and Latino populations show a high risk for elevated AL. This study aimed to test the Big-5 personality traits as possible predictors of AL in Latinos.Methods Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examined the Big-5 and AL connection through three time points in 8 years (Time 1 = 2006/2008; Time 2 = 2010/2012; Time 3 = 2014/2016). Only self-identified Latinos were included in the analysis sample (N = 319). Big-5 and demographics were obtained at baseline, and AL scores were computed for each time point.Results First, separate longitudinal linear mixed-effect models examined the effects of each Big-5 personality trait on AL change over time, then a fully adjusted longitudinal linear mixed-effect model was tested entering the Big-5 personality traits simultaneously. All models controlled for sociodemographic factors. Conscientiousness emerged as the only consistent significant predictor, for the separate and the simultaneous models. In baseline associations, higher conscientiousness was associated with lower AL. For predicting change in AL over time, none of the personality traits had significant associations in any of the models.Discussion The findings bolster prior evidence that conscientious can be a protective factor against elevated AL. Conscientiousness is a possible protective factor and improving related traits can be a path to achieve better health in Latino Americans.Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 21Development and Use of Theory of Mind in Social and Cultural Context(Wiley, 2022) Ekerim-Akbulut, Müge; Selçuk, Bilge; Gönültas, SeçilTheory of mind (ToM) is a key social-cognitive skill that allows individuals to understand and attribute mental states to others; it facilitates relationships and helps individuals navigate the social world. Thus, it is likely influenced by social and cultural contexts. In this article, we review studies that examine the potential ways through which sociocultural context interacts with the development and use of ToM in Western and non-Western societies. First, we summarize findings documenting the link between culture and timing of ToM acquisition. Second, we examine cross-cultural studies on how culture can be related to the sequential development of different dimensions of ToM. Third, we discuss when and how cultural group membership of the targets influences the use of ToM. Finally, we suggest avenues for research so the field can understand more comprehensively the dynamic interactions between sociocultural context and the development and use of ToM.Article Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 18Parenting Measurement, Normativeness, and Associations With Child Outcomes: Comparing Evidence From Four Non-Western Cultures(Wiley, 2023) Gao, Wen; Ren, Huiguang; Porter, Chris L.; Nelson, David A.; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Müren, Hatice Melis; Hart, Craig H.This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban areas of four countries (Malaysia, N = 372; China, N = 441; Turkey, N = 402; and Japan, N = 294) reported on four parenting constructs (authoritative, authoritarian, group harmony socialization, and intrusive control) and their sub-dimensions using modified culturally relevant measures. Teachers reported on children's internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors. The commonality principle was supported by two sets of findings: (1) full measurement invariance was established for most parenting constructs and sub-dimensions, except that intrusive control only reached partial scalar invariance, and (2) no variations were found in associations between parenting and any child outcomes across cultures or parent gender at the construct level for all four parenting constructs and at the sub-dimensional level for authoritarian and intrusive control sub-dimensions. The specificity principle was supported by the other two sets of findings: (1) cross-cultural differences in parenting normativeness did not follow the pattern of economic development but yielded culture-specific patterns, and (2) at the sub-dimensional level, the authoritative parenting and group harmony socialization sub-dimensions were differently associated with child outcomes across cultures and/or parent gender. The findings suggested that examining specific dimensions rather than broad parenting constructs is necessary to reflect cultural specificities and nuances. Our study provided a culturally-invariant instrument and a three-step guide for future parenting research to examine cross-cultural commonalities/specificities. Research HighlightsThis is the first study to use an instrument with measurement invariance across multiple non-Western cultures to examine the commonality and specificity principles in parenting.Measurement invariance was achieved across cultures for authoritative and authoritarian parenting, group harmony socialization, intrusive control, and their sub-dimensions, supporting the commonality principle.Cross-cultural differences in parenting normativeness did not follow the pattern of economic development but yielded culture-specific patterns, supporting the specificity principle.Both commonalities and specificities were manifested in associations between parenting and child outcomes across cultures.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Organizational Humor as Making Our Work More Meaningful: Mediation by Crafting Job Resources(De Gruyter, 2022) Keskin, İrem N.; Turnalar Çetinkaya, Neslihan; Bora, Gamze; Gümrükçü, Şeyma; İkan, ReyhanIn the present study, we examined the impact of humor’s positive functions on the perception of a job’s meaningfulness. We argued that liberating and stress-relieving humor act as job resources enhancing job crafting to increase social and structural resources to experience meaningfulness. We hypothesized that crafting the job to increase structural and social resources would mediate the link between organizational humor functions (i.e., liberating and stress-relieving) and meaningfulness. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 Turkish employees from different occupations. Our results revealed that increasing structural resources mediated the relationship between liberating humor and meaningfulness, while this mediation was partially for stress-relieving humor. The mediating role of increasing social resources was partial and conditional for both types of organizational humor functions. The practical and theoretical implications have been discussed from a positive organizational scholarship perspective.Article Sağlık Bilişleri Anketi (sba)’nin Türkçe Versiyonunun Psikometrik Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi(2018) Yılmaz, Özlem Özbek; Dirik, GülayBu çalışmanın amacı, Sağlık Bilişleri Anketi (Health Cognitions Questionnaire)’nin Türkçeye çevrilmesi ve yetişkin örnekleminde psikometrik özelliklerinin değerlendirilmesidir. Hadjistavropoulos ve arkadaşları (2012) tarafından geliştirilen ölçek, sağlık kaygısıyla bağlantılı olan sağlıkla ilgili işlevsel olmayan inançları değerlendirmektedir. Çalışmanın örneklemini, fiziksel hastalık tanısı olan ve olmayan, 18-65 yaş arasındaki 343 kişi oluşturmaktadır (242 kadın, 100 erkek, 1 diğer). Katılımcılara Sosyodemografik Bilgi Formu, Sağlık Bilişleri Anketi, Hastane Anksiyete ve Depresyon Ölçeği, Hastalık Algısı Ölçeği-Kişisel Kontrol Faktörü, Sağlık Anksiyetesi Ölçeği-Kısa Form ve Hastalık Davranışını Değerlendirme Ölçeği uygulanmıştır. Yapılan açımlayıcı faktör analizleri sonucunda, ölçeğin fiziksel hastalık tanısı olan ve olmayan gruplara uygulanan her iki formunun da orijinalindekine uygun şekilde 4 faktörlü yapıya sahip olduğu ve benzer madde dağılımı gösterdiği bulunmuştur. Faktörler “hastalıkla baş etmede güçlük”, “tıbbi hizmetlerin yetersizliği”, “hastalığın korkutuculuğu” ve “hastalık olasılığı” şeklinde adlandırılmıştır. Ardından ölçeğin faktör yapısı doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ile de değerlendirilmiştir. Her iki grupta faktörlerin iç tutarlılık ve test tekrar test güvenirliği incelenmiştir ve bu değerlerin çoğunun tatminkâr düzeyde olduğu belirlenmiştir. Yapılan korelasyon ve regresyon analizlerinde, ölçeğin diğer ölçeklerle olan ilişkilerinin beklenen şekilde olduğu bulunmuştur. Bu bulgular, Sağlık Bilişleri Anketi’nin, Türkiye’de fiziksel hastalık tanısı olan ve olmayan kişilerin sağlıkla ilgili işlevsel olmayan inançlarını değerlendirmede güvenilir ve geçerli bir araç olduğunu desteklemektedir.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 3Brief Time Course of Trait Anxiety-Related Attentional Bias To Fearconditioned Stimuli: Evidence From the Dual-Rsvp Task(Elsevier, 2016) Booth, Robert WilliamBackground and objectives Attentional bias to threat is a much-studied feature of anxiety; it is typically assessed using response time (RT) tasks such as the dot probe. Findings regarding the time course of attentional bias have been inconsistent, possibly because RT tasks are sensitive to processes downstream of attention. Methods Attentional bias was assessed using an accuracy-based task in which participants detected a single digit in two simultaneous rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) streams of letters. Before the target, two coloured shapes were presented simultaneously, one in each RSVP stream; one shape had previously been associated with threat through Pavlovian fear conditioning. Attentional bias was indicated wherever participants identified targets in the threat’s RSVP stream more accurately than targets in the other RSVP stream. Results In 87 unselected undergraduates, trait anxiety only predicted attentional bias when the target was presented immediately following the shapes, i.e. 160 ms later; by 320 ms the bias had disappeared. This suggests attentional bias in anxiety can be extremely brief and transitory. Limitations This initial study utilised an analogue sample, and was unable to physiologically verify the efficacy of the conditioning. The next steps will be to verify these results in a sample of diagnosed anxious patients, and to use alternative threat stimuli. Conclusions The results of studies using response time to assess the time course of attentional bias may partially reflect later processes such as decision making and response preparation. This may limit the efficacy of therapies aiming to retrain attentional biases using response time tasks.Article Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 19Moral Expansiveness Around the World: the Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries(SAGE Publications Inc., 2022) Rudnev, Maksim; Peker, Müjde; Jetten, Jolanda; Acevedo-Triana, Cesar; Crimston, Charlie R.; Kirkland, Kelly; Amiot, Catherine E.What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found low generalized trust, greater perceptions of a breakdown in the social fabric of society, and greater perceived economic inequality were associated with smaller moral circles. Generalized trust also helped explain the effects of perceived inequality on lower levels of moral inclusiveness. Other inequality indicators (i.e., Gini coefficients) were, however, unrelated to moral expansiveness. These findings suggest that societal factors, especially those associated with generalized trust, may influence the size of our moral circles.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 23Not Just a Sum of Its Parts: How Tasks of the Theory of Mind Scale Relate To Executive Function Across Time(Elsevier, 2018) Yavuz, H. Melis; Selçuk, Bilge; Doenyas, CeymiThere is a well-established relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and executive function (EF) during the preschool years. However, less is known about the concurrent and longitudinal relations between EF and specific tasks tapping different aspects of ToM. The current study investigated the ToM-EF relationship across 1 year in 3- to 5-year-old Turkish children using the ToM battery of Wellman and Liu (2004), which measures understanding of diverse desires (DD), diverse beliefs (DB), knowledge access (KA), contents false belief (CFB), explicit false belief (EFB), and hidden emotion (HE). This battery has not yet been used in its entirety to test the predictive relations between ToM and EF. We used pegtapping and day–night tasks to measure EF. Our sample comprised 150 Turkish preschool children (69 girls) aged 36–60 months at Time 1 (T1) and 49–73 months at Time 2 (T2). Using the ToM composite with all six tasks, when child’s age, receptive language, and T1 ability level (EF or ToM) were controlled, T1 EF significantly predicted T2 ToM, whereas T1 ToM did not predict T2 EF. Among DD, DB, KA, false belief understanding (FBU: the composite score of CFB and EFB), and HE, only KA and FBU were significantly associated with EF at T1 and T2. Further regression analyses showed that KA did not have a predictive relationship with EF. Instead, FBU drove the predictive EF–ToM relationship across time. Thus, in Turkish children, earlier EF predicts later ToM, but especially the FBU component, in this well-validated battery.Article Citation - WoS: 33Citation - Scopus: 35Predictors of Obesity and Overweight in Preschoolers: the Role of Parenting Styles and Feeding Practices(Elsevier, 2018) Yavuz, H. Melis; Selçuk, BilgeChildhood obesity/overweight (OB/OW) displayed a rapid increase and high prevalence in the last few decades in preschool-aged children, which raised health concerns across the world and motivated researchers to investigate the factors that underlie childhood obesity. The current study examined parenting styles and child-feeding practices as potential predictors for OB/OW in preschool children, controlling for child's temperament, which has been shown to be linked with OB/OW. The sample included 61 normal weight (NW) and 61 obese/overweight (OB/OW) Turkish pre-schoolers (M age ¼ 62.2 months; SD ¼ 7.64, range ¼ 45e80 months). Parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative), child-feeding practices (restriction, pressure to eat, monitoring), and child's temperament (negative affectivity) were measured with mothers' reports. Results showed that authoritarian parenting and maternal pressure to eat were the two parenting variables that significantly predicted child's weight status; the odds of being OB/OW was 4.71 times higher in children whose mothers used higher authoritarian parenting style, and was 0.44 times lower when mothers pressured their child to eat. These findings suggest that understanding the unique role of different aspects of parenting in the risk of early OB/OW status of children would be important in developing more effective interventions from early years in life.

