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Publication Metadata only A construal level account of the impact of religion and god on prosociality(Sage, 2020) N/A; N/A; Department of Business Administration; Canlı, Zeynep Gürhan; Karataş, Mustafa; PhD Student; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; Graduate School of Business; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 16135This research shows that the two most prevalent religious constructs-God and religion-differentially impact cognition. Activating thoughts about God (vs. religion) induces a relatively more abstract (vs. concrete) mindset (Studies 1a-1c). Consequently, time donation intentions (Study 2) and actual monetary donations (Study 3) after a God (vs. religion) prime increase when people are presented an abstractly (vs. concretely) framed donation appeal. Similarly, people donate more money to distant (vs. close) donation targets, which are construed relatively abstractly (vs. concretely), when a religious speech activates predominantly God-specific (vs. religion-specific) thoughts (Study 4). These effects are mediated by "feeling right" under construal level fit (Study 3). Overall, this research significantly advances extant knowledge on religious cognition and past research on the link between religion and prosociality.Publication Metadata only A qualitative exploratory study of the effects of simulation on nursing students' self-efficacy beliefs for using English for professional purposes(Sage Publications Inc, 2022) N/A; N/A; N/A; N/A; N/A; Karaçay, Pelin; Zeybekoğlu, Zuhal; Chizzo, Jacob Harvey; Middlebrooks, Amy Kathryn; Faculty Member; Other; Teaching Faculty; Teaching Faculty; School of Nursing; KOLT; School of Medicine; English Language Center; 179331; N/A; N/A; N/ABackground The health sector has become more international than ever because of patients' increased mobility and access to healthcare services. As a result, the ability to communicate in English has become critical for nursing students in countries where English is used as a foreign language. Aim This study aimed to highlight and understand the experiences of nursing students regarding the effect of simulation-based learning on their self-efficacy beliefs for using English for professional purposes. Methods The study was conducted with 28 third-year university nursing students enrolled in a required English course and participating in two nursing simulations conducted in English. Focus groups were conducted using semi-structured interview questions to elicit and understand the self-efficacy beliefs of nursing students for using English for professional purposes. The collected data were analyzed by using content analysis. Results The result of the study emerged under three themes: carrying out nursing duties by using professional discourse, building professional relationships with patients, and maintaining spontaneous conversations with patients. The overall results showed that while the students' self-efficacy beliefs increased for performing standard nursing duties and establishing rapport with patients, no increase was observed in their self-efficacy beliefs for holding a prolonged conversation with the patient. Conclusion This study's findings have implications for nursing programs in which English proficiency is considered an important program outcome for nurses who may be expected to work in both their own language and English.Publication Metadata only Exploring the hook-up app: low sexual disgust and high sociosexuality predict motivation to use tinder for casual sex(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018) N/A; N/A; Department of Psychology; Sevi, Barış; Eskenazi, Terry; Master Student; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 258780Tinder, also known as the "hook-up app" is the leading online dating application. In this study, we explored the reasons for using Tinder when seeking opportunities for casual sex. We asked whether sexual disgust sensitivity and sociosexuality predict Tinder use with motivation for casual sex. We also tested if gender moderated this relationship. Results of the data collected from 169 Tinder using Amazon Mechanical Turk workers revealed that sexual disgust sensitivity and sociosexuality were predictors of motivation to use Tinder for casual sex. The participants with higher sexual disgust sensitivity reported a lower motivation while the participants with higher sociosexuality reported a higher motivation for casual sex in their Tinder usage. While this model explained the motivation for men, a different model explained women's motivation. Sociosexuality mediated the relationship between sexual disgust sensitivity and the motivation to use Tinder for casual sex for women Tinder users. Results are discussed from an evolutionary perspective.Publication Metadata only Feminism and mate preference: a study on relational cognitive dissonance(Elsevier, 2021) N/A; N/A; Department of Psychology; Yurtsever, Aslı; Korkmaz, Arın; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Master Student; Master Student; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/A; 40374Evolution proposes differences in mate preferences between the two sexes. Females prefer mates who can invest in them and their offspring. In the contemporary era, gender ideologies are not always in line with these premises, but desires still could be. The conflict between ideology and desire could trigger cognitive dissonance in contemporary feminist women. We recruited 246 women online to investigate the occurrence of dissonance based on feminist attitudes, and whether dissonance reduction strategies (i.e., behavior change, cognition change) differed based on their preference for consistency. Results showed that highly feminist women who desire sexist men experienced more cognitive dissonance (operationalized as negative affect) than women lower in feminist attitudes. Preference for consistency moderated cognitive dissonance's association with behavior, but not cognition change.Publication Metadata only Intercultural engagement and relatedness: examining mediation effects(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017) N/A; Department of Psychology; Department of Psychology; N/A; Kağıtçıbaşı, Çiğdem; Sakarya, Yasemin Kisbu; Aydoğdu, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Master Student; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 219275; N/AMost research on student sojourners has studied students coming from the Majority World to Western countries, especially the United States, for undergraduate and graduate education. Though increasing greatly in numbers, shorter sojourn has not been the focus of attention. With regard to the adjustment of sojourners, research has tended to stress situational factors rather than personality. This study is different in terms of focusing on short term educational sojourn of Western students in a Majority World country and examining the effect of personal characteristics and cultural evaluation of the sojourners on their experience. Relatedness and country of origin were found to influence the cultural experience of exchange students through their cultural evaluation at baseline. Students with higher relatedness orientation had more positive cultural evaluations at baseline which then led to a more positive cultural experience in the receiving countryPublication Metadata only Nonverbal markers of lying during children's collective interviewing with friends(Springer, 2019) N/A; N/A; Department of Psychology; Şen, Hilal Harma; Küntay, Aylin C.; PhD Student; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 308928; 178879To examine nonverbal behaviors that may differentiate between lie- and truth-tellers, recent studies have relied on collective interviews (e.g., Vrij and Granhag in Appl Cognit Psychol 28(6):936-944, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3071), where participants were solicited to fake their responses about an unexperienced event. In this study, we made participants experience actual events that involved a potential rule violation, and later interviewed them collectively and unanticipatedly about these previously experienced events. Ninety same-sex preschool dyads were observed in a temptation resistance paradigm, where an adult experimenter proscribed touching of attractive toys and left the children alone. The dyads of children were later interviewed by the experimenter about how they handled this rule. Nonverbal behaviors were coded during the entire interview phase where they could lie by withholding transgression (i.e., lying by omission) and right after a target question where children chose to lie or tell the truth (i.e., lying by commission). Truth-tellers and lie-tellers showed (1) differences in response latency, looking at friend, and use of gestures right after the target question, but were (2) similar in their interactive nonverbal behaviors during the entire interview (i.e., speech transition, looking at friend, and utterance rate). This is the first study showing that nonverbal behaviors accompanying lie-telling behavior are different when a collective interview is carried out in a spontaneous deceptive context as opposed to planned deceptive contexts.Publication Metadata only Perceptions of organizational tightness-looseness moderate associations between perceived unfair discrimination and employees' job attitudes(Sage Publications Inc, 2022) N/A; Department of Business Administration; Department of Business Administration; N/A; Marcus, Justin; Aksoy, Eda; Alemu, Gashaw Tesfa; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Master Student; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 124653; 261803; N/AFusing social psychological theory on the BIAS map and attributions with cross-cultural theory on organizational tightness-looseness, we examine the interactive effects of active/passive facilitation/harm by organizational members and perceptions of organizational tightness on employee job attitudes. Study hypotheses were tested using a sample of bank employees located across 26 branches of a large bank in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (N = 324). Using a norm-behavior alignment perspective, we hypothesized that (supportive) active facilitation behaviors would be more strongly related to employee attitudes in tight versus loose perceived organizational cultures, whereas (negative) passive facilitation, active harm, and passive harm behaviors would be less strongly related to employee attitudes in tight versus loose perceived organizational cultures. Results provided overall support for these expectations. The present findings have implications for the mitigation of the effects of unfair discrimination on employee attitudes in organizational contexts, theorized associations between cultural T-L and unfair discrimination, and the generalizability of cultural T-L theory to developing country contexts that are typified by collectivistic and tight societal cultures.Publication Metadata only The effects of source credibility in the presence or absence of prior attitudes: Implications for the design of persuasive communication campaigns(Wiley, 2010) Albarracin, Dolores; Seignourel, Paul J.; N/A; Kumkale, Gökçe Tarcan; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105011Most theories of persuasion predict that limited ability and motivation to think about communications should increase the impact of source credibility on persuasion. Furthermore, this effect is assumed to occur, regardless of whether or not the recipients have prior attitudes. In this study, the effects of source credibility, ability, and motivation (knowledge, message repetition, relevance) on persuasion were examined meta-analytically across both attitude formation and change conditions. Findings revealed that the Source Credibility x Ability/Motivation interaction emerged only when participants lacked prior attitudes and were unable to form a new attitude based on the message content. In such settings, the effects of source credibility decayed rapidly. The implications of these findings for applied communication campaigns are discussed.Publication Metadata only Traumatic experiences, acculturation, and psychological distress among Syrian refugees in Turkey: the mediating role of coping strategies(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2021) Acar, İbrahim Hakkı; Yurtbakan, Taylan; Uygun, Ersin; Department of Psychology; N/A; N/A; Department of Psychology; Kurt, Gülşah; İlkkurşun, Zeynep; Acar, Büşra; Acartürk, Ceren; Teaching Faculty; Master Student; PhD Student; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/A; N/A; 39271Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world. So far, many studies investigated the mental health problems among Syrian refugees in Turkey and other hosting countries. However, little attention has been paid to the acculturation process of Syrian refugees in Turkey. A crosssectional study was conducted with 409 Syrian refugees in Mardin, Turkey. Results showed that traumatic experiences depleted problem-focused, emotion-focused, and maladaptive coping strategies. Emotion-focused coping strategies mediated the relationship between traumatic experiences and maintenance of the heritage culture and adoption of the destination culture. To conclude, our findings underscore the importance of traumatic experiences and emotion-focused coping strategies for integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Psychosocial interventions enhancing emotion-focused coping capacities might mitigate the adverse impact of traumatic experiences on integration. We discussed the strengths and limitations of the study considering the current literature.Publication Metadata only When the expectations from a message will not be realized: Naive theories can eliminate expectation-congruent judgments via correction(Elsevier, 2009) Handley, Ian M.; Albarracin, Dolores; Brown, Rick D.; Li, Hong; Kumkale, Ece C.; N/A; Kumkale, Gökçe Tarcan; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105011Research typically reveals that individuals like an object more when a persuasive message convinces them that this object is pleasant. In this paper, two experiments were conducted to understand the influence of such message-induced affective-expectations on judgments of experienced affect following direct encounter with an alcohol type of drink. As predicted, before trying the drink, recipients of the positive expectation message had more positive expectations than recipients of the negative-expectation message. After drinking, participants judged the beverage to elicit affect congruent with message-induced expectations to the extent they did not endorse a naive theory that their affective expectations congruently influence their experienced affect. In contrast, after drinking, the effect of the message disappeared when participants did endorse this naive theory. Moderation of these effects, as well as theoretical and practical implications, are addressed.