Projeler ve Araştırma Destekleri

İbrahim Hakkı Acar – Associate Professor

• Principal Investigator, TÜBİTAK-1001-COVID SUPPORT “Examining the Effects of Parents’ Individual, Familial, and Environmental Stressors on Children’s Psychological Health in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic” 2020
• Principal Investigator, “Self-Regulation in Turkish Preschool Children”, Özyeğin University, Turkey, October 2018- Present. 
• Researcher, “Global Temperament Project” PI: Sam Putnam, Ph.D., Bowdoin College. June 2018- Present
• Research Associate, “CHildren in Action: Motor Program for PreschoolerS (CHAMPPS)” PI: Dr. Emine Ahmetoglu, Department of Preschool Education, Trakya University July 2017-Present 
• Co-Principal Investigator, “Parental Involvement and Preschool Children’s Peer Play Interactions” Co-PI: Dr. Emine Ahmetoglu at Department of Preschool Education, Trakya University, Turkey
• Secondary Investigator, “Children's Reasoning about Nature and Friends” SI: Dr. Julia C. Torquati, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. August 2013-Present

Alper Açık - Assistant Professor / Psychology Department Chair

• Research Consultant, “FP7 Intelligent Surgical Robots (I-SUR)” STREP Project. 2014-2016 
• Co-investigator, PLOTINA (“Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training”) Project (European Commission H2020-GERI-2015-2016). 2016 – 2020

Gizem Arıkan - Assistant Professor 

• Advisor, Identifying the Factors Affecting Father-Child Attachment and Improving the Father-Child Attachment Security through Parental Education Program (TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG 601619), Turkey, (635.496 Turkish Lira). 2021-2024
• Co-Investigator, Examining the Effects of Parents’ Individual, Familial, and Environmental Stressors on Children’s Psychological Health in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic Kovid-19 (TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG 120K387), Turkey, (72.160 Turkish Lira). 2020
• Primary Investigator,, Funding from Circle of Security International to complete Parental Embodied Mentalization coding of mother-toddler dyads. ($1230.00). 2020
• Primary Investigator, Improving Mother-child Attachment Relationship with Circle of Security Parenting Training Program. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK 3510 SOBAG 114K813), Turkey, (349.762 Turkish Lira). 2015-2019
• Co-Investigator, Literature’s Witnessing the History of Democratization in Turkey: Coups and Novels. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG 114K137), Turkey, (158.415 Turkish Lira). 2014-2017 
• Co-Investigator, Factors Influencing the Marital Relationship in the First Years of Marriage, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG 113K538), Turkey, (379.921 Turkish Lira). 2014-2016

Ayfer Dost-Gözkan – Associate Professor

• Principal Investigator, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey Project Title: Adolescents’ disclosure to their parents: Individual and familial factors and positive youth development. TÜBİTAK National Grant # 115K324 2015-2017
• Co-investigator, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey Project Title: Developmental assets and positive youth development across 24 nations (PIs: Dr. Nora Wiium, University of Bergen, Norway & Dr. Radosveta Dimitrova, Stockholm University, Sweden) 2015-present

Duygu Gürleyik - Assistant Professor

• Principal Investigator, Project Title: Okul Öncesi Dönemde Obeziteye Etki Eden Faktörler: Boylamsal Bir Çalışma. Tübitak 1001 Grant # 119K359 March 2020 - Present
• Project lead; Co-leading Dr. Celia Naivar Şen, Project Title: CAPABLE Cancer awareness, physical activity behavior, lifestyle and education study. Sept 2019- Present

M. Selenga Gürmen – Assistant Professor

• TÜBİTAK 3501 Career Development Program, "Couple Therapy Effectiveness and Change Process Research in Turkey", TUBITAK, 360,000tl (≈$45000, $1=8tl), 2022
• Council of Europe - Improving the Effectiveness of Family Courts: Better Protection of the Rights of Family Members, Expert Consultant, 2021
• TÜBİTAK 2224 Support for International Scientific Activities, TÜBİTAK, $3000. 2018
• TÜBİTAK 2224 Support for International Scientific Activities, TÜBİTAK, $1000. 2017

Nilüfer Kafescioğlu – Associate Professor

• Principal Investigator, Factors Influencing the Marital Relationship in the First Years of Marriage. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK 1001). Grant Number: 113K538. June 2014- June 2017 
• Principal Investigator, Efficacy of Filial therapy. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK 1002). Grant Number: 111K008. May 2011 –  May 2012

Asiye Kumru – Professor

• Co-Principal Investigator, International Research Project. Title: Prosociality in times of COVID-19: a cross-national investigation of prosocial attitudes and behaviors during the COVID-19 crisis. 14 countries: Argentina, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, the United States of America. June 2020 – Dec 2020 
• Co-Principal Investigator, (PI: Ibrahim Acar), Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (SOBAG:120K387). Title: Kovid-19 Salgını Bağlamında Ebeveynlerin Bireysel, Ailesel ve Çevresel Stres Faktörlerinin Çocukların Psikolojik Sağlığı Üzerindeki Etkilerinin İncelenmesi. 2020
• Co-Investigator, (PI: Gizem Arıkan). Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (SOBAG 114K813, 213000TL). Title: Improving Mother-child Attachment Relationship with Circle of Security Parenting (COSP) Training Program. 2014-2019 
• Co-Investigator, (PI: Nilüfer Kafescioğlu). Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (SOBAG 113K538, 385.000TL). Title: Factors Influencing the Marital Relationship in the First Years of Marriage. 2014-2017 
• Co-Principal Investigator, Carnegie Mellon University, BAA-AFOSR-2012-02 “Basic Research Initiative” TTA: Reliance Optimization for Autonomous Systems ($45.000). Title: The Influence of Cultural Factors on Trust in Automation. 2014-2017
• Principal Investigator, Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Vakfı (5000TL). Title: Genç kızlar için yaşam becerileri eğitim programı ölçme-değerlendirme projesi. Jan 2012- June 2012

H. Canan Sümer – Professor / Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences

• Project Coordinator, From incivility to Harassment, Mistreatment at Work: Outcomes and Intervention Techniques from a Cultural Perspective (“Nezaketsizlikten Tacize, İş Yerinde Kötü Muamele: Kültürel Bağlamda Sonuçlar ve Müdahale Yöntemleri), TÜBİTAK 1001, (Project No: 119K363) 2019-2022

Celia Katrine Naivar Şen – Assisstant Professor

• Project Advisor, Project name: Social Diversity: LGBTQI+ Awareness Project Description: Randomized control trial of LGBTQI+ intervention designed to alter explicit and implicit attitudes towards sexual orientation. Funds award by Meridian International Center to student Uğur Özküsen. 2020 
• Project lead; Co-lead Dr. Duygu Gürleyik. Project name: Capable: Cancer awareness, physical activity behavior, lifestyle and education study Description: A multi-wave survey to understand university students’ health behaviors including cancer awareness, physical activity, body image, eating attitudes, and organ donation registration grounded in theory of planned behavior and selfdetermination theory. Role: 2019-present 
• Project lead; Co-lead Dr. Candan Türkkan. Project name: Wasted: Food waste behaviors of university cafeterias. Description: An intervention using persuasion and social influence tactics to reduce food waste in university cafeterias and increase sustainability based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of food waste practices. 2019-present

Pınar Uğurlar – Assisstant Professor

• Principal Investigator, “Cooperation in cross-categorization” Juniour Start-Up Grant; Center for Social and Economic Behavior Cologne, (2020)

• Researcher, “How much do you trust me? Determining thresholds for trust to be perceived as such” DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation) Research Grant, (2019-2020)

• Researcher, “Perils or Promises of Being a Frequent Participant in Social Science? Implications of Research-Related Self-Concept Clarity for Well-Being“ Juniour Start-Up Grant; Center for Social and Economic Behavior Cologne, (2018)

• Principal Investigator, “A cognitive computational perspective on interpersonal and intrapersonal decisions” Juniour Start-Up Grant; Center for Social and Economic Behavior Cologne, (2018)

• Principal Investigator, “Self-Concept Clarity Predicts Decision-Making Performance” Juniour Start-Up Grant; Center for Social and Economic Behavior Cologne, (2017)

• Co-principal investigator, “The Role of Social Distance on Trust and Cooperation” Juniour Start-Up Grant; Center for Social and Economic Behavior Cologne, (2016)

• Principal Investigator, “Sosyal Mesafenin Prososyal Davranış ve Güven Üzerindeki Etkisi: Bilişsel Süreçler Bu Etkiyi Nasıl Şekillendirir?” TÜBİTAK 2214-A Yurt Dışı Doktora Sırası Araştırma Bursu (2016-2017)

Ercenur Ünal – Assisstant Professor

• Principle Investigator, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) 1001 Project, “Event Representation in Cognition, Language and Development”, (2021–2024)

• Co-Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant, “Cross-linguistic investigation of events in speech and gesture”, (2021–2024)

Senem Zeytinoglu Saydam – Assisstant Professor

• MC Member appointed by TUBITAK, European Cleft and Craniofacial Initiative for Equality in Cleft Care. Cost Action CA16234. 2018