Browsing Theses - Department of Psychology by Title
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Are our memory predictions absolute or relative? : The effect of comparison on memory judgments
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The effect of divided attention on memory is well documented. However, its effects on memory predictions are not known. One of the aims of the present study was to investigate whether divided attention affects memory ... -
The dimples of Venus: an adaptive morphological trait of physical attractiveness
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This thesis documents a series of studies investigating the Dimples of Venus (DOV) as a physically attractive fitness-relevant cue in mating contexts. Judgments of attractiveness across four studies were measured through ... -
Does distance affect memory predictions by activating beliefs about perceptual fluency
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)People predict their future memory performance to be better for the perceptually fluent stimuli than for the disfluent ones. For instance, their memory confidence is higher for the words written in large fonts than small ... -
The effect of early life stress on brain white matter integrity and working memory performance
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Former studies revealed that exposure to early life adversity is correlated with alterations in the white matter structure, particularly, in the areas associated with executive functioning and memory. Those alterations include ... -
The effect of maternal mental state talk on preschool children’s theory of mind abilities
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)This study investigates the relation between maternal mental state expressions during story book reading and 3- to 5-year-old Turkish speaking children’s theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Thirty-two children completed ToM, ... -
The effect of orientation-related prior probability information on contrast perception
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)It is known that visual perception is the product of sensory input and prior probability information. Previous studies support well that expectation influence recognition and decision-making; however, we have limited ... -
The effect of text coherence on metacognitive judgments
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)Text coherence has an important influence on measures of learning and memory performance. The more coherent the texts are, the easier they are learned and remembered in subsequent memory tests. Moreover, studies also reveal ... -
The effects of mindfulness based yoga intervention on preschoolers’ self-regulation ability
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis taps into one of the significant developments that has effects on children’s academic and social life; self-regulation. Children develop this ability from early childhood to middle childhood. Research has ... -
Effects of operational sex ratio on sexual misperception
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)The current thesis investigates the operational sex ratio of the environment and its effects on people’s accuracy in evaluating the sex and commitment intent of others. We conducted a speed meeting experiment in Ihsan ... -
Fact vs. fiction: preschoolers’ learning of information from narrative and expository books
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)Expository and narrative books differ in terms of their structure, content, and language. This study investigated 3- and 5-year-old children’s learning of information from different genres, and whether children differ in ... -
An investigation of Turkish mothers’ narrative styles and their relation to children’s narrative comprehension
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)Quality of mothers’ book sharing interactions with their children show variations at both individual and cultural levels. The narrative styles that mothers adopt during these book sharing interactions influence their ... -
The origins of individual differences in romantic attachment: evolutionary psychological insights
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)The current thesis investigated the hypothesis that evolved psychological mechanisms producing adult attachment strategies are sensitive to personal and contextual inputs linked to costs and benefits of alternative attachment ... -
Paternalistic leadership in Turkey: its relationship with organizational identification, work-group identification, supervisor identification and organizational citizenship behaviors
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)The present study investigates paternalistic leadership from the dyadic leader-subordinate perspective and explores whether paternalistic leadership is associated with subordinates’ identification with the organization, ... -
Relationships between preschoolers’ screen-based media use and self-regulation abilities
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)Screen-based media technologies have become integrated into nearly every aspect of families’ lives. The long-term impact of these technologies on children has only recently started to be investigated. While past developmental ... -
The role of emotion word use in perceived responsiveness during getting acquainted interactions
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Past research has showed that perceived responsiveness (i.e., the extent to which people think that their relationship partners understand, care for, and appreciate them) is positively associated with individual and ... -
The spatial extent of size adaptation effect in peripheral vision
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)It has been shown that prolonged exposure to a certain object size (i.e. size adaptation) alters the subsequent size perception such that the size of the latter appears more dissimilar to the adapted size (Pooresmaeili, ... -
A systematic analysis of category learning: effects of different learning strategies and task characteristics
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)Many studies showed that organization of study materials has a strong effect on learning performance (Kornell & Bjork, 2008). The current study compared category learning performance through blocked and interleaved learning ... -
Thin slices of friendship: do non-verbal behaviors predict first impressions during getting acquainted interactions?
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)Does a very brief observation of a person predict first impressions? Prior research has shown that these brief observations, called thin slices, predict many psychological outcomes such as individual performance. However, ... -
To have or not to have : the role of desire to have children and gender in visual representations of babies
(Bilkent University, 2016-08)Past research has shown that desire to have children (DTC) and gender play a role in expectations about having children whether individuals construe becoming a parent as a positive or a negative experience. The present ... -
Turkish speakers' conceptualization of belief-related words and its implications for theory of mind development
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)This thesis is comprised of three studies. Study 1 & 2 investigate whether there are pragmatic nuances between belief-related mental state verbs (e.g., “to think, guess, and falsely think”) acknowledged by Turkish-speaking ...
