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Program Coordinator: Professor S. Adil SARIBAY

Contact: adil.saribay@khas.edu.tr

Kadir Has University Psychological Sciences MA program will accept new students for the 2023-2024 academic year.

The program offers courses in Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Psychology. Admitted students will be expected to develop a research program in one of these areas or in a combination of these three areas. Courses will start in September 2023.

 

Faculty and their research areas

Prof. Dr. S. Adil Sarıbay

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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

 

Assoc. Prof. Aslı Çarkoğlu

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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. Mehmet Harma

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Assoc. Prof. Harma has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Mersin University. He obtained his M.A and PhD degrees in Psychology from Middle East Technical University.

His research interests include the function, maintenance, and consequences of close relationships and the role of interpersonal relationships on various contexts. He is the principal investigator of the Communication and Relationship Research Lab and works with undergraduate and graduate students.

For more information: https://corelab.khas.edu.tr

 

Assoc. Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz

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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).

 

Asst. Prof. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes

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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 interaction between language and cognition. In her research she investigates how early and intense exposure to second language affects 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.

For more information: https://silab.khas.edu.tr/

 

Asst. Prof. Ahu Gökçe

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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

Asst. Prof. Sezin Öner

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Dr. Öner completed her B.A. education in Psychology at Boğaziçi University. She received her M.A degree in Clinical Psychology from Doğuş University and completed her PhD work in Cognitive Psychology at Koç University.

Broadly, she is interested in the interplay of emotional and cognitive processes, particularly autobiographical memory. In her research, Dr. Öner focuses on “Why do we remember? (“Why do we forget?)” and works on the functional aspects of remembering and how these functions vary across individuals. In addition, she has been conducting research on how public events are remembered in Turkey.

For more information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sezin_Oner

 

Asst. Prof. Berna Uzundağ

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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

 

Asst. Prof. Demet Özer

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Dr. Demet Özer attained her BA degree in Business Administration and Psychology Double Major Program at Koç University and her MA and PhD degrees in Cognitive Psychology at Koç University.

Dr. Özer attempts to examine human communication in its situated, multimodal, and interactive ecology. Her area of research is on the coordination of diverse multimodal communicative cues (such as speech, hand gestures and eye gaze) during language production and comprehension.

For more information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Demet-Ozer

Asst. Prof. Gamze Turunç

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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

Minimum requirements for application

  • B.A. or B.S. degree
  • GPA equal to or greater than 2.75
  • Minimum ALS score of 70 (EA) or minimum GRE score of 680/153
  • English proficiency (e.g., a minimum YDS score of 75)

Documents for Application

  • Official undergraduate transcript
  • GRE/ALES
  • YDS/TOEFL (or equivalent document of English proficiency)
  • One letters of recommendation (a 2nd letter is optional)
  • Statement of purpose: The applicant should provide information (max 1500 words) about the reasons for applying to a particular field, who they would like to work with, what research topics are of interest to them, their expectations from the M.A. program, and their previous research experience if any.


All applicants will take a qualifying exam that will contain questions regarding research article evaluation and specific questions about social, cognitive, developmental theories, and research methods.

 

Department email address: psy@khas.edu.tr

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For questions about the application process, please contact international@khas.edu.tr.