• How is the Big Five related to moral and political convictions: The moderating role of the WEIRDness of the culture 

  Alper,Sinan; Yılmaz, Onurcan (Elsevier, 2019)

  There has been extensive research on how the Big Five personality traits are related to political orientation and endorsement of moral foundations. However, recent findings suggest that these relationships may not be cross ...

• The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Alper,Sinan (European Association for Decision Making, 2019)

  While previous studies reveal mixed findings on the relationship between analytic cognitive style (ACS) and right-wing (conservative) political orientation, the correlation is generally negative. However, most of these ...

• Comparison of death anxiety, self-esteem, and personality traits of the people who live in Turkey and Denmark 

  Özdemir, Seher; Kahraman, Süleyman; Ertufan, Hakan (Sage, 2019)

  The aim of this research is to investigate death anxiety of the people who live in Turkey and Denmark and have the same cultural background. Cross-cultural studies about death anxiety have been conducted within two different ...

• A bibliometric analysis of linguistics in web of science 

  Arık, Engin (Phcog.Net, 2015)

  The present study investigated the bibliometric characteristics of linguistics as represented in Web of Science (WoS), focusing on the number of linguistics publications between 1900 and 2013 in the Social Science Citation ...

• Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil (Sage, 2018)

  Moral foundations theory (MFT), while inspiring much empirical work, has been the target of both methodological and theoretical criticism. One important criticism of MFT is that, in its attempt to explain variability in ...

• The relationship between attachment to God, prosociality, and image of God 

  Bayramoğlu, Yunus; Harma, Mehmet; Yılmaz, Onurcan (International Association for the Psychology of Religion, 2018)

  Although religiosity fosters some antisocial behaviors (e.g., support for suicide attacks), it is well-known that it also enhances in-group cooperation and prosociality (e.g., donating to charity). Supernatural punishment ...

• Rethinking the golden age of social psychology 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapılı, Hasan Galip (Istanbul University Press, 2019)

  It is tragic yet curious to realize that a historical period of great human misery can motivate great scientific endeavour. This paper argues that the “golden age” of social psychology was driven by the traumas of fascism. ...

• Turkish children's Bender Gestalt Test performance: the effects of social variables on visual spatial performance 

  Özer, Serap (International Union of Psychological Science, 2008)

  The Bender Gestalt Test is an important educational assesment tool in Turkey. The present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that SES is an important factor in this task. 515 children who came from either private ...

• Childhood in Turkey: social class and gender differences in schooling, labor and play 

  Göncü, Artın; Özer, Serap; Ahioğlu, Nihal (Routledge, 2012)

  The sociocultural approaches to the study of child development have aptly illustrated that dominant Western theories do not take into account variations in childhood and thus lead to ethnocentric characterizations of ...

• Are neo-liberals more intuitive? Undetected libertarians confound the relation between analytic cognitive style and economic conservatism 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Sarıbay, S. Adil; Iyer, Ravi (Springer, 2019)

  Previous studies consistently showed that analytic cognitive style (ACS) is negatively correlated with social conservatism, but there are mixed findings concerning its relation with economic conservatism. Most tests have ...

• Bir değerler skalasının geliştirilmesi ve bu skalanın politik ve dini yönelimle ilişkisi 

  Cesur, Sevim; Bayad, Aydın; Yılmaz, Onurcan; Tepe, Beyza (Özel Akademi, 2018)

  Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, Türkiye'de yaşayan bir katılımcı grubundan elde edilen değerlerden yola çıkarak yerel bir değerler ölçeği oluşturmak ve bu değerlerin politik/dini yönelime ek olarak Schwartz'ın değer kategorileriyle ...

• Relationships between core ideological motives, social and economic conservatism, and religiosity: Evidence from a Turkish sample 

  Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil; Yılmaz, Onurcan (Wiley, 2018-09)

  The “conservatism as motivated social cognition” approach posits two core ideological motives underlying political conservatism across cultures. However, there is a scarcity of tests from non-Western cultures, and much ...

• Lower levels of resistance to change (but not opposition to equality) is related to analytic cognitive style 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil (Hogrefe, 2018)

  In recent years, there has been increasing research attention to cognitive style differences between liberals and conservatives. While some studies have found a negative relation between conservatism and analytic thinking ...

• Different types of religiosity and lay intuitions about free will/determinism in Turkey 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapılı, Hasan Galip; Harma, Mehmet (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

  Religiosity has been found to be positively associated with belief in free will (FW) in the Western world. In the Muslim world, however, religiosity exhibits several characteristics that set it apart from the Western world, ...

• Meta-ethics and the mortality: Mortality salience leads people to adopt a less subjectivist morality 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapılı, Hasan Galip (Elsevier, 2018)

  Although lay notions in normative ethics have previously been investigated within the framework of the dual-process interpretation of the terror management theory (TMT), meta-ethical beliefs (subjective vs. objective ...

• Makina temelli öğrenim sistemi: DEHB olan ve olmayan katılımcıların sınıflandırılması 

  Öztoprak, Hüseyin; Toycan, Mehmet; Alp, Yaşar Kemal; Arıkan, Orhan; Doğutepe, Elvin; Karakaş, Sirel (IEEE, 2017)

  Dikkat Eksikliği ve Hiperaktivite Bozukluğu (DEHB), psikiyatri servislerine başvuran çocuklarda en çok rastlanan rahatsızlıktır. Bu bozukluk 20. Yüzyılın başında tanımlanmasına rağmen, teşhisinde halen ciddi sorunlar ...

• Testing evolutionary and cultural theories regarding mate selection in Turkey 

  Göz, İlyas; Bahçekapılı, Hasan Galip; Yılmaz, Onurcan (Elsevier, 2018)

  Most studies on mate selection criteria have focused on women and rely on Western samples. In the present study, we tested both women's and men's mate preferences from evolutionary and cultural perspectives in a large, ...

• An investigation of moral foundations theory in Turkey using different measures 

  Yalçındağ, Bilge; Özkan, Türker; Cesur, Sevim; Yılmaz, Onurcan; Tepe, Beyza; Piyale, Zeynep Ecem; Biten, Ali Furkan; Sunar, Diane (Springer, 2017-06)

  Claims of universality for Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) require extensive cross-cultural validation. The present study aims to (1) develop Turkish versions of three instruments used to research MFT (MFQ, MFQL, MSQ); (2) ...

• A brief historical perspective on the advent of brain oscillations in the biological and psychological disciplines 

  Karakaş, Sirel; Barry, Robert J. (Elsevier, 2017-04)

  We aim to review the historical evolution that has led to the study of the brain (body)-mind relationship based on brain oscillations, to outline and illustrate the principles of neuro-oscillatory dynamics using research ...

• The relationship between cognitive style and political orientation depends on the measures used 

  Yılmaz, Onurcan; Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2017-03)

  The present research investigated the reason for mixed evidence concerning the relationship between analytic cognitive style (ACS) and political orientation in previous research. Most past research operationalized ACS with ...

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