Faculty Members

Language, Autobiographical Memory, Social Cognitive Development

Group processes and intergroup relations; Intergroup contact; Collective intergroup processes; Self and group efficacy; Social identity; Prejudice and discrimination; Minority groups; Immigration

Attachment, close relationships, happiness, interpersonal relations, marriage, mate selection, relationship formation, responsiveness, social interactions, social psychology, well-being

Attachment, close relationships, happiness, interpersonal relations, marriage, mate selection, relationship formation, responsiveness, social interactions, social psychology, well-being

Working memory, episodic memory, attention, cognitive control.

Parenting, Infant and Child Mental Health, Prevention

Gul Gunaydin is a Professor of Psychology at Sabanci University. She received her PhD degree from Cornell University in 2013. Her program of research focuses on interpersonal relationships and addresses questions ranging from relationship formation to maintenance to the well-being consequences of relationships. Her research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. Gul received multiple early career awards from prestigious institutions including the Science Academy of Turkey.

developmental psychology, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, human-robot interaction, psycholinguistics, language

• Attachment processes and Parenting • Driver Behavior – Transportation Psychology • Personality Traits and Assessment • Effects of Unemployment • Teaching of Psychology

EEG, SSVEP, frequency tagging, perceptual organization, visual neuroscience

My research focuses on individual differences in visualization abilities and styles, from both theoretical and applied perspectives. It investigates the dissociation between different types of visualization among individuals of different ages and specializations. Specifically, I am interested in the differences between object visualization (representation and processing of the literal appearances of objects in terms of their pictorial properties such as shape, color, and texture) and spatial visualization (representation and processing of spatial relations, locations of objects in space, and spatial transformations). My research includes studies with children, college students and members of different professions that involve group, individual, quantitative and qualitative assessment. RESEARCH AREA KEYWORDS: Visual-spatial cognition; Visual Imagery; Visualization abilities; Individual differences; Imagery Development; Boundary Extension.

Cognition and emotion; anxiety; cognitive control; stress; fear; experimental psychopathology