Prof. Dr. S. Adil Sarıbay
Prof. Dr. Sarıbay received his undergraduate training in Psychology at Middle East Technical University; obtained his master’s degree in Psychology at Boğaziçi University and his doctorate degree in Social/Personality Psychology from New York University.
His research focuses on various topics such as social perception, specifically facial morphology and face perception; and political psychology, specifically the relation between cognitive style and sociopolitical views. Currently, he is conducting a TÜBİTAK 1001 project on holistic thinking style. For more information: https://p2.khas.edu.tr/cv_program/cv_eng/3155.pdf
Asst. Prof. Ahu Gökçe
Dr. Gökçe has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Istanbul Bilgi University. She obtained her M.A and PhD degrees from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Neuro-cognitive Psychology and Experimental Psychology, respectively.
Her research focuses on visuospatial attention, selective visual attention, visual working memory, visual reasoning, ensemble representations, attention and food selection and the interplay between attention and emotional processes.
For more information: http://visualcoglab.khas.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes
Dr. Aktan-Erciyes has a B.A. degree in Management from Boğaziçi University and completed her M.A. and PhD studies in Psychology at Boğaziçi University.
Dr. Aktan-Erciyes studies the interaction between language and cognition. In her research, she investigates how early and intense exposure to a second language affects the first language and vice versa. She is also interested in narrative development and event conceptualization. She runs Studies in Language and Bilingualism (SiLab) since September 2018. She has completed TÜBİTAK 3501 project and TÜBİTAK 1002 project, in which she examined the effects second language exposure on narrative development and the effects of written language on the time flow direction. In 2024, she started a TÜBİTAK 1001 project in which she will investigate causal and counterfactual language processes.
For more information: https://silab.khas.edu.tr/
Assoc. Prof. Aslı Çarkoğlu
Assoc. Prof. Çarkoğlu has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University and obtained her M.A. and PhD degrees in Child Development and Family Studies from Purdue University.
Dr. Çarkoğlu’s research interests include interaction of chronic illnesses with family relationships (diabetes in specific), smoking, cessation, emergent adulthood and tobacco use. Dr. Çarkoğlu’s most recent familial focus point is impact of fathers on their child’s identity development.
For more information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Asli_Carkoglu
Assoc. Prof. Ayşe Altan Atalay
Ayşe Altan-Atalay received her BA and MA degrees from Bogazici University. She got her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Middle East Technical University. Her area of expertise is Clinical Psychology.
Dr. Altan-Atalay’s research interests are transdiagnostic risk factors such as intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation, perfectionism, and attentional control in addition to looming cognitive style which is a risk factor for anxiety disorders.
Daha fazla bilgi için: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ayse-Altan-Atalay
Asst. Prof. Berna Uzundağ
Dr. Uzundağ obtained her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University. She completed her M.A. degree in Cognitive Science at Boğaziçi University and her PhD degree in Psychology at Koç University.
Dr. Uzundağ is the director of the Child and Family Research Laboratory (http://cocukveaile.khas.edu.tr). Her research focuses on infants’ and children’s cognitive development (language, attention, executive functions) and related environmental factors (mother-child interactions, socioeconomic status, screen use).
For more information: http://www.bernaarslanuzundag.com
Assoc. Prof. Burak Doğruyol
Dr. Burak Doğruyol earned his M.Sc. degree in 2008 and Ph.D. degree in 2014 from Middle East Technical University.
He is a member of the Moral Intuitions Lab (MINT Lab; www.moralintuitionslab.com). His work focuses on the intersection between moral judgment and decision-making. More specifically, he tries to understand the cognitive underpinnings of moral judgments and behavior and improve the psychometric characteristics of the relevant measures and manipulations.
For more information: https://mintlab.khas.edu.tr/
Asst. Prof. Demet Özer
Dr. Demet Özer completed her BA degree in Business Administration and Psychology Double Major Program at Koç University, and her MA and PhD degrees in Cognitive Psychology, again at Koç University.
Dr. Özer is the director of the Multimodal Language Lab (MuLab). In her research, she aims to examine human communication in its situated, multimodal and interactive ecology, and examines the coordination of speech and different multimodal communicative signals (such as iconic hand gestures, eye gaze) during language and learning. Additionally, she conducts a TÜBİTAK 3501 National Young Researchers Career Development Program Project, where she investigates how speakers design their multimodal utterances according to their own and their addressees’ cognitive abilities across different contexts.
For more information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Demet-Ozer
Asst. Prof. Gamze Turunç
Dr. Gamze Turunç completed her undergraduate and master’s education in Psychology at Middle East Technical University. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Koç University.
Her research interests include well-being and socio-cognitive development of children, and determinants of parenting behaviors and parental well-being in vulnerable populations such as refugee families, families affected by armed conflict and families living in low and middle income countries.
For more information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gamze-Turunc
Assoc. Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz
Dr. Yılmaz has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Yeditepe University. He holds two M.A. degrees in Psychological Sciences and Social Psychology from Boğaziçi University and Istanbul University, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Istanbul University.
Generally speaking, Dr. Yılmaz tries to understand the psychological causes and consequences of human morality. He founded and currently leads the Moral Intuitions Lab (https://www.moralintuitionslab.com). He also writes a regular scientific blog called “Moral Intuitions” for the website of a leading popular science magazine, Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/moral-intuitions).
