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  • The role of ignorance in inferences about others’ social identities :|a developmental study 
    Öner, Güneş. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Children are sensitive to what others know and use this information to make social inferences about them. What others do not know, or ignorance, might also be a powerful cue about individuals’ social attributes. In two ...
  • 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 Role of parenting and family background on Turkish adolescents' academic achievement 
    Heyndrickx, Friederike. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The major aim of the present study was to investigate the prediction of adolescents' academic achievement in the Turkish culture. Authoritativeness of the mother and the father, maternal employment, parental marital ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • The role of self-referencing on feeling of knowing judgments 
    Pehlivanoğlu, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of the present thesis was to investigate the effect of self-referencing (SR) on feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments. Feeling of knowing (FOK) is a prospective memory judgment in which participants make predictions ...
  • 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. ...
  • The roles of parenting practices and school attitudes in academic competence of Turkish high school students 
    Cebenoyan, Ayşegül Parmaksızoğlu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Primary aim of the present study was to study the variables associated with academic competence of the Turkish high school students. Specifically, (1) Whether dimensions of parenting practices, involvement, psychological ...
  • The self-with-sibling representation and the Oedipal themes in the sibling relationship 
    Çavdar, Alev. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    The first aim of this study was to explore self-representations associated with the experience of being with the sibling and the association of these representations with several aspects of the sibling relationship, such ...
  • The sense of self, superego and ego-ideal in Turkish sephardic jewish young adults 
    Hayim, Beti. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The present study is a qualitative study of the self, superego, ego-ideal structures and identity conceptualizations of Turkish Jewish young adults between the ages of 21 and 23. Ten interviews were conducted, focusing on ...
  • 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 ...
  • The validity of the Junior Brixton Spatial Rule Attainment Test in 6- to 8- year-old Turkish children 
    Şentürk, Nilay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present study investigated the validity of an executive function (EF) measure, the Junior Brixton Spatial Rule Attainment Test (JBSRAT) in relation with another EF tool, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), a working ...
  • 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 ...
  • Transition into foster mothering 
    Yüksel, Selen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The present study aims to explore the process of foster mothers’ transition into foster motherhood in Turkey as a qualitative study adopted a grounded theory approach. The data was gathered through 14 semi-structured ...
  • Turkish validation of the social competence and behavior evaluation scale (SCBE-30) 
    Yalçın, Duygu Arslan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale (SCBE-30) using a sample of Turkish children aged 3 to 6 years. The reliability and construct ...
  • Turks' prejudice against Kurds and Syrians :|the role of contact, identification, and threat 
    Fırat, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study examined the effect of imagined contact on Turks’ prejudice against Kurds and Syrians, with a focus on the moderating role of in-group identification and the mediating role of intergroup threat in the imagined ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Women in urban poverty: qualitative look at coping strategies 
    Tilki, Makbule Evrem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aimed to conduct a qualitative research on the problems and coping strategies of the women living in urban poverty. Ten Kurdish women (20-35 years old) who lived in Tarlabaşı; one of the inner city slums of ...
  • Women nurses working on the front lines against COVID-19 :|a qualitative inquiry 
    Çopuroğlu, İpek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The COVID-19 pandemic has placed healthcare workers around the globe under immense pressure. Although women nurses working at the front lines are positioned at the intersection of several particularly challenging burdens, ...

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