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 ...

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 ...

The general approach of visual information acquisition into cognition favors a coarse-to-fine order such that lower spatial frequency (LSF) information is extracted earlier than higher spatial frequency (HSF) information. ...

This study investigated the factors that influence and mechanisms that underlie the relationship between Western media exposure and body satisfaction among students in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and Selçuk University, ...

Early experiences with attachment figures are argued to lead to internal working models, which incorporate representations of self, others, and self-other relationships. These representations influence information processing ...

Previous research has shown that the visual system forms accurate statistical summary representations, but little research to date has directly investigated how variance is represented as an ensemble statistics. In the ...

Recent research has suggested that people represent spatial information configurally, and preservation of configural cues at retrieval helps memory for spatial locations (Jiang, Olson, & Chun, 2000; Simons, 1996). The aim ...

Metacognition has been argued to play an important role in learning and performance in academic settings. Most of the self-regulated learning theories consider metacognitive calibration ability as central to successful ...

As the internet has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon, concerns about the results of problematic internet use (PIU) has also increased. The present study investigated the relationships between PIU, depression, ...

This thesis investigates the developmental relationship between young children’s theory of mind (ToM) abilities and their competence in organizing narratives through character references, to see how ToM contributes to the ...