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Publication Metadata only Age differences in privacy attitudes, literacy and privacy management on Facebook(Masarykova Univ, Fac Social Studies, 2016) N/A; N/A; N/A; Department of Psychology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Kezer, Murat; Sevi, Barış; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Baruh, Lemi; Master Student; Master Student; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/A; 40374; 36113Privacy has been identified as a hot button issue in literature on Social Network Sites (SNSs). While considerable research has been conducted with teenagers and young adults, scant attention has been paid to differences among adult age groups regarding privacy management behavior. With a multidimensional approach to privacy attitudes, we investigate Facebook use, privacy attitudes, online privacy literacy, disclosure, and privacy protective behavior on Facebook across three adult age groups (18-40, 41-65, and 65+). The sample consisted of an online convenience sample of 518 adult Facebook users. Comparisons suggested that although age groups were comparable in terms of general Internet use and online privacy literacy, younger groups were more likely to use SNSs more frequently, use Facebook for social interaction purposes, and have larger networks. Also, younger adults were more likely to self-disclose and engage in privacy protective behaviors on Facebook. In terms of privacy attitudes, older age groups were more likely to be concerned about privacy of other individuals. In general, all dimensions of privacy attitudes (i.e., belief that privacy is a right, being concerned about one's privacy, belief that one's privacy is contingent on others, being concerned about protecting privacy of others) were positively correlated with engagement in privacy protective behavior on Facebook. A mediation model demonstrated that amount of disclosure mediated the relationship between age groups and privacy protective behavior on Facebook. Finally, ANCOVA suggested that the impact of privacy attitudes on privacy protective behavior was stronger among mature adults. Also, unlike older age groups, among young adults, considering privacy as a right or being concerned about privacy of other individuals had no impact on privacy protective behavior.Publication Metadata only Biased perceptions against female scientists affect intentions to get vaccinated for COVID-19(Sage Publications Ltd, 2022) Kuru, Ozan; Yıldırım, Kerem; N/A; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; Department of International Relations; Doğan, İsminaz; Baruh, Lemi; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Master Student; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; Department of International Relations; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 36113; 40374; 125588Based on role congruity theory, we investigated how gender bias may influence public attitudes toward the vaccine in Turkey. Using a between-subjects design, we tested whether an emphasis on the female versus the male scientist as the vaccine's inventor in a news story influenced attitudes about the BioNTech vaccine and vaccination intentions. Partly confirming role congruity theory, three-way interaction results from 665 participants demonstrated that among male participants with a stronger belief in traditional gender roles (compared to males with lower belief), the presence of the female inventor, either by herself or together with the male inventor, decreased the perceived efficacy and safety of the vaccine and reduced intentions to be vaccinated by the BioNTech vaccine. We did not observe such differences for women. These findings highlight how gender bias may influence individuals' information processing and decision making in a way that may have negative consequences for public health.Publication Metadata only Denying psychological properties of girls and prostitutes: the role of verbal insults(Sage, 2017) Rubini, Monica; Roncarati, Alessandra; Ravenna, Marcella; Albarello, Flavia; Moscatelli, Silvia; Department of Psychology; Semin, Gün Refik; Researcher; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis study examines the negative stereotypes of the category of women and their subcategories through the language of insults. Participants produced a list of epithets induced by the same hypothetical scenario in which the protagonist was presented either as a prostitute or as a girl (i.e., nonprostitute). Findings showed that the prostitute was addressed with taboo-related insults exaggerating sexual behavior, whereas the girl was mainly given warnings and intellectual insults. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to the underlying processes.Publication Metadata only Grammatical development in both languages of bilingual Turkish-Dutch children with and without Developmental Language Disorder(Frontiers, 2022) Blom, Elma; Boerma, Tessel; Karaca, Figen; de Jong, Jan; Department of Psychology; Küntay, Aylin C.; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 178879IntroductionTo guarantee a reliable diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in bilingual children, evaluating both languages is recommended. However, little is known about how DLD impacts the heritage language, and it is largely unknown whether bilingual children with DLD develop the heritage language at the same pace as their peers with typical development (TD). MethodsFor this longitudinal study that focused on children's grammatical development, we analyzed semi-spontaneous speech samples of 10 Turkish-Dutch children with DLD (bi-DLD) and 10 Turkish-Dutch children with typical development (bi-TD). Children were 5 or 6 years old at the first wave of data collection, and there were three waves of longitudinal data collection with 1-year intervals. In addition, data from 20 monolingual Dutch controls were analyzed (10 mono-DLD, 10 mono-TD). Results and discussionResults indicate that heritage language assessment can inform clinical diagnosis. In the case of Turkish spoken in the Netherlands, short sentences, the absence of the genitive suffix in simple constructions and avoidance of complex constructions that require possessive marking could potentially be clinical markers of DLD. Accusative case errors are also relatively frequent in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children with DLD, but these are less promising as a clinical marker because previous research suggests that omission and substitution of accusative case can be part of the input to Turkish heritage language learners. In Dutch, frequent omission of grammatical morphemes in the verbal domain coupled with a limited amount of overregularization errors could indicate that a child is at risk for DLD, both in bilingual and monolingual contexts. Cross-linguistic comparisons of error types in Turkish and Dutch confirm that, regardless of typological differences, children with DLD use short sentences, avoid complex structures, and omit grammatical morphemes. Longitudinal analyses revealed that children with DLD can develop the heritage language at the same pace as TD children, even if this language is not supported at school. Strong intergenerational transmission and heritage language maintenance among Turkish migrants in the Netherlands may be key.Publication Metadata only Learning grammatical categories using paradigmatic representations: substitute words for language acquisition(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016) Yatbaz, Mehmet Ali; Cirik, Volkan; Department of Psychology; Department of Computer Engineering; Küntay, Aylin C.; Yüret, Deniz; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Department of Computer Engineering; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Engineering; 178879; 179996Learning word categories is a fundamental task in language acquisition. Previous studies show that co-occurrence patterns of preceding and following words are essential to group words into categories. However, the neighboring words, or frames, are rarely repeated exactly in the data. This creates data sparsity and hampers learning for frame based models. In this work, we propose a paradigmatic representation of word context which uses probable substitutes instead of frames. Our experiments on child-directed speech show that models based on probable substitutes learn more accurate categories with fewer examples compared to models based on frames.Publication Metadata only Occasions for providing resolutions (or not) in Turkish preschool conversational narratives(John Benjamins B V Publ, 2001) N/A; Department of Psychology; Küntay, Aylin C.; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 178879Many developmental studies of narrative isolate resolutions as a structural element, aiming to demonstrate age-related influences on the presence or absence of this component in children's narrative productions. This study is an ethnographic study of Turkish children's conversationally occasioned narratives investigating the conversational occasions that lead to provision or omission of a problem-resolution structure in children's narratives. The data come from 60 hours of naturalistically collected talk of preschool children aged 3-to-6 in two different preschools. The results indicate that Turkish preschool children often provide narratives without a problem-resolution structure but also that they can provide high-point structures, depending on the speech situation. The analyses reveal that whether children organize their narratives in terms of a problem-resolution structure is dependent on the characteristics of the recounted events and conversational factors rather than merely age-related competence.Publication Metadata only Online privacy concerns and privacy management: a meta-analytical review(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017) Secinti, Ekin; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; Baruh, Lemi; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 36113; 40374This meta-analysis investigates privacy concerns and literacy as predictors of use of online services and social network sites (SNSs), sharing information, and adoption of privacy protective-measures. A total of 166 studies from 34 countries (n=75,269) were included in the analysis. In line with the premise of privacy paradox, privacy concerns did not predict SNS use. However, users concerned about privacy were less likely to use online services and share information and were more likely to utilize privacy protective measures. Except for information sharing, the relationships were comparable for intentions and behavior. Analyses also confirm the role that privacy literacy plays in enhancing use of privacy protective measures. The findings can be generalized across gender, cultural orientation, and national legal systems.Publication Metadata only Partisan bias in COVID-19 conspiracy theories: news reliance and the moderating role of trust in health authorities(Taylor and Francis, 2023) Wu, Yuanyuan; Kuru, Ozan; Yildirim, Kerem; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of International Relations; Department of Psychology; Baruh, Lemi; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of International Relations; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 36113; 125588; 40374Neglecting the role of political bias in the public's perceptions of health authorities could be deceptive when studying potentially politicized COVID-19 conspiracy theories (CCTs); however, previous studies often treated health authorities as a single entity and did not distinguish between different types of CCTs. Drawing from motivated reasoning theory, we investigate the politically motivated nature of CCTs by examining their associations with individuals' media reliance, party identification, conspiratorial mentality, and importantly, trust in (politicized or independent) health authorities. In a national survey conducted in late 2020 (N = 2,239) in Turkey, a heavily polarized context, we found that not accounting for political identities shown in CCTs and health authorities could be misleading. While those with a strong conspiracy mentality were more likely to endorse all types of CCTs, party identification and trust in different types of health authorities led people to believe in certain CCTs aligning with their political attitudes. The influence of media reliance on CCTs depended on the level of trust in health authorities, again suggestive of the influence of political partialities.Publication Metadata only The effects of ideal standards and parental approval on mate choice among emerging adults(Sage, 2023) Güvensoy, İpek; Department of Psychology; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 222027The current study examines how ideal standards and parental approval interplay in the decision to marry via three consecutive studies among Turkish emerging adults. The first study explored desirable traits for a potential spouse, and participants (N = 309) rated and rank-ordered 56 traits. Findings revealed that trustworthiness, honesty, and loyalty were the most desired traits. Informed by the first study's findings, we designed vignettes, tested their validity via three pilot studies, and finalized scenarios for the experimental study. In Study 2 (N = 331), we recruited highly liberal (secular) emerging adults and randomly assigned them to one of the four experimental conditions (2x2 design; ideal standards high vs. low, parents approve vs. disapprove). Each participant read a vignette about a potential partner and responded whether they would be willing to marry that person (yes or no). Analysis revealed that participants were 13.93 times [CI (6.40, 30.32)] more willing to marry a partner who met ideal standards and 4.24 times [CI (1.93, 9.30)] more willing if the parents approved the partner. Study 3 replicated Study 2 with a conservative sample, using the same experimental design and vignettes. We recruited participants through theology departments and online religious groups (N = 484). Main effects of both having an ideal partner [OR = 5.00, CI (2.62, 9.54)] and parental approval [OR = 4.00, CI (2.12, 7.53)] were significant as well as the interaction term [OR= 7.38, CI (2.32, 23.51)]. The current study highlights the importance of parental approval and ideal standards on marriage decisions among secular and conservative emerging adults.Publication Metadata only The moderating effect of communication climate between job satisfaction and turnover intention(Marmara Üniversitesi (MÜ) Yayınları, 2014) Ünler, Ela; Çıray, Jale Canan; Department of Psychology; Kılıç, Bülent; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThe aim of the study was to explore the effect of job satisfaction on turnover intentions of employees. It was also investigated if communication climate has a moderating effect on the satisfaction-turnover intentions relationship. 182 questionnaires were collected from individuals who were working in the banking industry. The sample was comprised of 97 women and 85 men. Results indicated that, job satisfaction and communication climate both have a negative effect on turnover intentions of employees. Participants working in companies with a positive communication climate and high levels of job satisfaction displayed a lower levels of turnover intentions. Furthermore, two of the communication climate dimensions: supervisor-subordinate communication, openness and trust in communication were found to have a moderating role between external job satisfaction and turnover intention. Managerial implications and research limitations were discussed. / Çalışmanın amacı, iş doyumu ve iletişim ikliminin çalışanların işden ayrılma niyetlerine etkisini incelemektir. Ayrıca, iletişim ikliminin iş doyumu ve işden ayrılma niyeti ilişkisinde şartlı değişken olarak rol alıp almadığı anlaşılmaya çalışılmıştır. Çalışmaya Türkiye’de bankacılık sektöründe çalışan 182 kişi katılmıştır. Katılımcıların 96’sı kadın 84’ü erkekir. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre, iş doyumu ve iletişim ikliminin işden ayrılma niyeti ile olumsuz ilişki içinde olduğu görülmüştür. İş doyumu yüksek ve olumlu iletişim iklime sahip şirketlerde çalışanların işden ayrılma niyetlerinin azaldığı anlaşılmıştır. Ayrıca, iletişim iklimi boyutlarından, yönetici-çalışan iletişimi ve iletişimde şeffaflık ve güvenin, dışsal kaynaklı iş doyumu ve işden ayrılma niyeti ilişkisinde şartlı değişken olarak görev yaptığı bulunmuştur. Çalışmanın tartışma bölümünde kısıtları ve katkıları aktarılmıştır.