Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • A Turkish adaptation of the revised post-event processing questionnaire 
    Baycan, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Post-Event Processing (PEP) is described as repetitive and intrusive thinking on recent anxiety-provoking social interaction or performance situation. Models of social anxiety (e.g. Heimberg, Brozovich, & Rapee, 2014) ...
  • In search of tonal grounds for short term melody recognition 
    Karan, Alperen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    What information is retained after the first hearing of a note sequence? Taylor and Pembrook (1983) investigated for this question with melodies in C major scale using a singing back and a dictation task. They observed ...
  • Assessing children’s subjective well-being in a school context 
    Ayan, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Children spend an extended period at school from very early ages. The numerous components of school life have an impact on the subjective well-being of children. The present study aims to understand the subjective ...
  • Social and emotional learning in a preschool context:|A teacher-led intervention program 
    Küçüközdemir, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Preschool teachers play a crucial role in the social and emotional development of young children. They educate a large number of students throughout their career; thus, training the teachers can be considered as a cost- ...
  • Self-regulation in at-risk children :|exploring factors that affect cognitive functions in refugee children 
    Coşgun, Begüm. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The number of refugee children is increasing every year all around the globe, along with their suffering from psychological and cognitive problems. Refugee experience may be characterized with chaos which includes multiple ...
  • Changes in psychological well-being after disclosing negative autobiographical memories 
    Mert, Nazike. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Emotional disclosure of negative experiences has long been associated with improvement in physical and psychological health (Pennebaker, 1997). The present study has three main goals: First, to test whether disclosure ...
  • What if days were shorter? The behavioral effects of a 22-hour period in wistar rats 
    Çetin, Aybeniz Ece. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Light is a significant pacemaker for circadian, that is daily or ~24-h, rhythms that greatly influence mood and various physiological functions. As this connection is well known in psychology, there are many studies ...
  • The role of shared knowledge in children's identification of norm violators' group affiliation 
    Ünlü, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Each cultural group has different social norms that their members are expected to follow. Past research suggests that children expect members of other groups (e.g., linguistic outgroup members) to be social norm violators. ...
  • Prejudice against Syrians in Turkey :|the role of age, moral perception, group identification, and contact 
    Üner Yanılmaz, Sinem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    When Syrians fled Syria and took refuge in Turkey as the result of a civil war, various disturbances arose among Turkish people. In order to find out how they perceive Syrians in Turkey, distinct research was conducted. ...
  • The effect of momentary tactile contact between interacting strangers on the recipients' impressions of people and institutions 
    Levi, Hanna R. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of momentary tactile contact, between interacting strangers, Ln a functional/professional situation, on the recipients' affective state and evaluative responses. The ...
  • The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing performance anxiety in elite Turkish athletes 
    Birgin, Birge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Performance anxiety has been a hot research topic for a couple of decade; however, the research is relatively rare with athletes. Elevated levels of anxiety symptoms may especially be problematic during a sport performance ...
  • The interaction between ensemble and item representations in a temporally extended context 
    Şen, Umay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    To date, research demonstrated that visual perceptual judgments are susceptible to information which is accumulated in the recent past. However, it is not well known how localization of a particular item of a set is ...
  • Effects of goal attainment on autobiographical memory 
    Şenelt Kalelioğlu, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The aim of the current study was to explore the effect of goal attainment and valence on characteristics of autobiographical memories. University students and young adults recalled four autobiographical memories related ...
  • The effect of socioeconomic status and 5-HTTLPR on preschoolers’ social competence and diurnal cortisol levels 
    Mavioğlu, Rezan Nehir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Social competence (SC) is an important contributor to children’s development and influenced by genetic and environmental factors. This study investigates the associations between socioeconomic status (SES), SC and ...
  • Transference in the school context :|an examination of self and object representations 
    Açıl, Muhammed Dorukhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aimed to investigate whether the term transference could be a useful concept to understand the relationship between a student and a teacher. Transference was examined in terms of the participants’ object and ...
  • The role of reappraisal and suppression in the relationship between maternal warmth and adolescents’ self-esteem 
    Gençoğlu, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the underlying mechanism of the relationship between maternal warmth and self-esteem in Turkish adolescents while considering gender and self construal characteristics. Two commonly used emotion ...
  • The effect of language on generic knowledge understanding and source reliability: A developmental study 
    Ataman, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study investigated the effect of grammaticalized markers of genericity and evidentiality on children’s understanding of generalizability of knowledge and source reliability. It explored whether children generalize ...
  • The role of response competition in retrieval-induced forgetting 
    Eraltan, Şirin Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Retrieving a target item raises its likelihood to be remembered at a later memory test. However, related but not retrieved items do not benefit and actually suffer from such a retrieval. The phenomenon that retrieval of ...
  • 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 ...