Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • Feature specificity in visual statistical summary processing 
    Yörük, Harun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2018.)
    People initially process object sets by averaging their features into statistical summary representations. Previous studies have shown that there is independence between summarizing of low and high-level visual information. ...
  • The role of contact and the perception of threat in prejudice towards Syrians in Turkey 
    Özkeçeci, Hediye Hilal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The study explored the relationship between contact, threat perceptions and prejudice in the context of Syrian refugees in Turkey by using the propositions of Integrated Threat Theory (ITT; Stephan & Stephan, 2000). A total ...
  • The social contagion of memory for strongly- and weakly-associated word Pairs 
    Sorgun, Ayşe Işılay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The present thesis investigated the effect of social contagion paradigm on the different levels of association strength words. The aim is to provide a new insight of how qualitative aspects of memory items impact social ...
  • Accuracy of recognition of facial expressions in children 
    Kürklü, İris. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
  • Mental representations of gay men: The role of willingness to contact and disgust sensitivity 
    Meral, Erdem Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Our behavioral intentions towards outgroups might be related with how we picture them in our heads. In the current study, we investigated willingness to engage in contact with gay men, and disgust sensitivity as possible ...
  • Characteristics and functions of self-defining memories in restrained eaters 
    Göz, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the characteristics and functions of self-defining memories (SDM) in restrained eaters in terms of eating attitudes. To this end the content, specificity, integration, ...
  • An investigation of autobiographical memories through the lens of an honor culture 
    Mutafoğlu, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Culture influences autobiographical remembering. However, no previous study examined autobiographical memory narratives through the lens of an honor culture. The present set of studies investigated the effects of implicit ...
  • School-aged children’s experience and expression of shame and guilt: The role of age, gender, context, parenting and socioeconomic status 
    Pala Sağlam, Şule. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2016.)
    The current study tested the unique and interactive role of child age, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), interaction context (parent/peer) and family factors on school-aged children’s experience and expression of shame and ...
  • The role of home and childcare chaos in children’s development 
    Eroğlu Ada, Figen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The present study investigated the additive and interactive roles of home and childcare chaos in predicting preschool children’s social competence and adjustment, effortful control, and emotionality. The participants of ...
  • The role of context on boundary extension 
    Mamus, Ayşe Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Boundary extension (BE) is a memory error in which observers tend to remember more of a scene than they are actually viewed, which reflects a good prediction of the natural continuation of a scene (Intraub & Richardson, ...
  • Outlier and ensemble representations of visual displays 
    Yıldırım, İrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Ensemble representations are argued to benefit efficient outlier processing. However, limited research has investigated the relationship between outlier and ensemble representations which was the goal of this thesis. Eight ...
  • Who are we now? A study of the cultural identity of Turkish migrant workers' children returning from western Europe 
    Karahan, Rengin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
    54 Turkish high school students who have returned from West European countries after living as families of migrant workers completed a questionnaire in the month of May, 1983. The questionnaire consisted of questions ...
  • The role of inter-group biases in children‘s acquisition of information about others‘ personality characteristics 
    Aldan, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Studies conducted on social learning of children showed that children acquire knowledge from others selectively. However, as most of these studies focused on the knowledge acquisition about nonsocial elements, there is a ...
  • The effect of timing and stimulus properties on metacognitive judgments 
    Karadöller Astarlıoğlu, Dilay Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The present thesis tested the effect of partial information along with the effect of timing on feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments to provide a comprehensive account of variables influencing FOK strength and accuracy. In ...
  • An investigation of the reciprocal relationship between cognitive style and political ideology 
    Yılmaz, Onurcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Although there are studies relating low-effort or intuitive thinking with political conservatism, there are no studies that systematically investigate the reciprocal relation between cognitive style and political ideology. ...
  • Gesture and language use in toddlers: the role of verbal and non-verbal working memory in language development and gesture production process 
    Güneş Acar, Naziye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Gestures constitute an inseparable part of communication system and from very early years onward children use speech accompanying gestures. Importance of gestures in communication processes lead researchers to investigate ...
  • A changing sense of self in the context of coercive control 
    Ülkümen, Aylin Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2014.)
    The present study aimed to gain an insight into how women's sense of self change in the context of coercive control. Building on the previous literature of complex trauma, it pursued an understanding of how male violence ...
  • A measure of conflict inhibition in toddlers: the animal-vehicle task 
    Özdemir, Cihan Züleyha Aydın (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Despite the recent increase in the number of age-appropriate cognitive tasks for very young children, their paucity is still obvious. Inhibitory abilities emerge very early in life but the research generally focuses on the ...
  • The role of direct and generative retrieval in access to involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories 
    Ersoy, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Two distinct retrieval mechanisms were used in access to autobiographical memories, namely direct and generative retrieval. To date, memories accessed through direct and generative retrieval were only compared in voluntary ...
  • Predictors of prejudice against different types of head-covering practices 
    Sever, Gülin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The present study explored female Turkish university students’ perceptions and attitudes towards groups with different types of head-covers. A total of 174 students without headcover were presented with 6 groups of photos ...

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