Ph.D. Theses

 

Recent Submissions

  • Interrelationships between autobiographical memory specificity, executive functions and rumination in depression 
    Kızılöz, Burcu Kaya. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Depression is associated with reduced specificity of autobiographical memories (Williams & Broadbent, 1986), a phenomenon defined as overgeneral memory. It has been suggested that rumination, impairments in executive ...
  • Details in hand :|how does gesturing relate to autobiographical thinking? 
    Acar, Naziye Güneş. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Gestures and speech have different expressive capabilities. When narrating an autobiographical memory, gesturing may reduce the cognitive load of verbal reporting, gestures may function as externalized cues activating ...
  • Vicarious traumatization: an investigation of the effects of trauma work on mental health professionals in Turkey 
    Altekin, Serap. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of trauma work on mental health professionals working in the trauma field in Turkey, as well as to identify protective factors and risk factors which predict ...
  • The structure and organization of collective memory representations 
    Mutlutürk, Aysu. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2017.)
    This dissertation investigates the structure and organization of collective memories. In three studies, we specifically explored the semantic relationships between the public event representations. In the first study, ...
  • The bidirectional relationship between L1 and L2: Effects on event conceptualization and narrative discourse 
    Erciyes, Aslı Aktan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The present study intended to answer two major research questions: 1) Whether intense exposure to a second language (L2) affects first language (L1) narrative skills of 5- and 7-year old children, and 2) whether learning ...
  • Exploring shame as a relationally-conscious emotion 
    Çağın, Özlem. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study aimed at exploring shame by conceptualizing it as a relationally-conscious emotion. In a pilot study, prevalent shame-triggering themes among Turkish young people were identified and by using these themes as ...
  • Affect with other: self- and affect-discrepancy in personal and impersonal contexts 
    Namer, Yudit. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The study aimed at investigating the effects of the discrepancy between different types of self and between different types of affect across various personal/interpersonal and impersonal contexts on psychological symptomatology. ...
  • Contemporary conceptualizations of defense: a relational perspective 
    Çavdar, Alev. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study aimed at systematically studying defenses from a relational perspective. Recent advances in psychoanalytic theory emphasized the role of relationship in defining basic psychoanalytic concepts. The notion of ...