Dr. Şenel Husnu Raman

​ ​Dr. Şenel (Shenel) Husnu Raman is a professor of social psychology in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. Shenel obtained a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Social Psychology from Middle East Technical University, Turkey and then a PhD at the University of Kent, UK in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Here, she undertook a teaching role and later research assistantship before moving onto teaching at the University of Derby, UK for a year. Şenel joined Eastern Mediterranean University in 2011 where she worked as the head of the Department of Psychology for 5 years. She now coordinates the General Psychology MSc program. Şenel’s research interests cover a number of topics in intergroup relations, focusing mainly on prejudice and prejudice reduction techniques. She has been eager to use social psychological tools to enhance tolerance and acceptance in the context of the Cyprus conflict, mainly by using intergroup contact. She is also a fierce supporter of gender equality and inclusivity, and therefore does work on gender and LGBTI+ issues. Her work has been published in international academic papers and journals such as Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology and Sex Roles.As an advocate for peace-building in Cyprus, she became a member of the Bi-communal Technical Committee on Education set up as part of the negotiations in Cyprus. With the aim of applying psychological research findings to promote peace education across the divide, Şenel has also trained as a peace educator. Within this role, she trains teachers and children as part of a peace education intervention program designed for Turkish and Greek school children as well as their teachers, promoting contact and cooperation between both communities. Şenel is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society, a member of the Turkish Psychological Society, European Association of Social Psychology and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. 

Selected Publications

​​Uluboy, Z. & Husnu, S. (2020). Turkish Speaking young adults attitudes toward transgender individuals: Transphobia, homophobia and gender ideology. Journal of Homosexuality. 10.1080/00918369.2020.1813510

Husnu, S., & Paolini, S. (2018). Positive imagined contact is actively chosen: Exploring determinants and consequences of volitional intergroup imagery in a conflict-ridden setting. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/1368430217747405.

Husnu, S., Mertan, B., & Cicek, O. (2018). Reducing Turkish Cypriot children’s prejudice toward Greek Cypriots: Vicarious and extended intergroup contact through storytelling. Group Processes Intergroup Relations, 21(1), 178-192. doi: 10.1177/1368430216656469

Husnu, S. & Mertan, B. (2017). The roles of traditional gender myths and beliefs about beating on self-reported partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32 (24), 3735-3752. doi:10.1177/0886260515600879

Stathi, S., Husnu, S. & Pendleton, S. (2017). Intergroup contact and contact norms as predictors of post-conflict forgiveness. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 21(1), 20-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000060

Husnu, S. (2016). The role of ambivalent sexism and religiosity in predicting attitudes toward childlessness in Muslim undergraduate students. Sex Roles, 75 (11), 573-582. doi:10.1007/s11199-016-0639-5

Husnu, S. & Crisp, R. J. (2015). Perspective taking mediates the imagined contact effect. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 44, 29–34.

West, K., Husnu, S. & Lipps,G. (2014). Imagined Contact Works in High-Prejudice Contexts: Investigating Imagined Contact’s Effects on Anti-Gay Prejudice in Cyprus and Jamaica. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 11, 60-69.Mertan, B. & Husnu, S. (2014). Understanding of ‘Enemy’in Turkish Cypriot children. Journal of Peace and Conflict, 20, 465-473.

Paolini, S., Harwood, J., Rubin, M., Husnu, S., Joyce, N., & Hewstone, M. (2014). Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 548-562.

Halperin, E., Crisp, R.J., Husnu, S., Trzesniewski, K.H., Dweck C. S., & Gross, J.J. (2012). Promoting intergroup contact by changing beliefs: Group malleability, intergroup anxiety, and contact motivation. Emotion, 12,1192-1195. 

Husnu, S. & Crisp, R. J. (2010). Elaboration enhances the imagined contact effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 943-950.Husnu, S. & Crisp, R. J. (2010). Imagined intergroup contact: A new technique for encouraging greater inter-ethnic contact in Cyprus. Journal of Peace and Conflict, 16, 97-108.

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Dr. Fatih Bayraktar​

Fatih Bayraktar is an associate professor in Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. Fatih had his BSc degree in the Psychology department of Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Than he moved to Ege University, İzmir for MSc in Developmental Psychology. His master thesis entitled “The role of Internet use among adolescents in North Cyprus" was published in one of the pioneer journals in the field (Cyberpsychology, behaviour and Social Networking"and became one of the most cited publications in his academic career. He returned back to Cyprus for finishing the military service and he earned the PhD program in Developmental Psychology in Hacettepe University, Ankara. During his PhD he started to be interested in bullying and he decided to prepare his dissertation about this subject. He proposed a multidimensional model of bullying and tested it in two separate samples. This dissertation was also published in one of the top journals (i.e. Journal of Interpersonal Violence).

Fatih started his full time academic career in Ankara University Psychology Department as a research assistant between 2006-2008. He joined EMU Psychology Department in 2008 as an instructor. He was assigned to Assistant Professorship in 2010. He served as vice dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences between 2011 and 2012. Than he earned a scholarship for post-doc. He moved to Masaryk University of Czech Republic for one year and studied in a research team so called CyberTeam. During these years he concentrated on cyberbullying and still works on this subject. After returning back to Cyprus he was assigned as Associate Professor in 2015. He was elected as the chair of EMU Psychology Department in 2018 and still serves at this position.

Fatih has a wide research interest; face to face and cyberbullying, prosocial and antisocial behaviors among adolescents, time perspectives and their correlates, Cyberpsychology is some of them. Fatih is a member of Turkish Psychological Association and  European Society of Developmental Psychology.

Selected Publications (for the last five year):

1- Bayraktar, F., & Wright, M. F. (in press). The longitudinal associations of cyberbullying and cybervictimization: Preliminary Findings from a Two Wave Study. In L. Schiamberg, & M.F. Wright (Eds.). Child and Adolescent Exposure to Online Risks, Elsevier, San Diego, USA. 

2- Oztekin, R.H. & Bayraktar, F. (2019). How Decisiveness, Self-Efficacy, Curiosity and  Independent/Interdependent Self-Construals Are Related with Future Hopefulness among Senior Students.  Behavioral Sciences, 9, 1-11. 

3- Bayraktar, F. (2019). Individual level predictors of face to face bullying: The findings of a two-wave longitudinal study. In I. V. Ancho, & K. R. Palces (Eds.) School Violence: Risk Factors, Prevention and Challenges,pp. 23-47, Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers.

4- Wright, M. F., Yanagida, T., Machackova, H., Dedkova, L., Sevcikova, A., Aoyama, I.,Bayraktar, F., Kamble, S. V., Li, Z., Soudi, S., Lei, L., & Shu, C. (2018). Face-to-face  and cyber victimization among adolescents in six countries: The interaction between attributions and coping strategies. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma,11, 99-112.

5- Wright, M.F., Yanagida, T., Aoyama, I., Ševčíková, A.,  Macháčková, H., Dědková, L., Li, Z.,Kamble, S.V., Bayraktar, F., Soudi, S., Lei, L., & Shu, C. (2017). Differences in Severity and Emotions for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization Across Six Countries.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48, 1216-1229.   

6- Bayraktar, F. (2017). Çevrimiçi Riskler ve Ebeveyn Aracılık Stratejileri: Avrupa ve Türkiye'de Yaşayan  Türk  Kökenli  Çocuk/Ergenlerin Karşılaştırılması. Eğitim ve Bilim [Education and Science],  190, 25-37. 

7- Wright, M.F., Yanagida, T., Aoyama, I., Dedkova, L., Li, Z., Kamble, S.V., Bayraktar, F., Sevcikova, A., Soudi, S., Machackova, H., Li, L. & Shu, C. (2017). Differences in Attributions for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development, 178 (1), 1-14. 

8- Bayraktar, F. (2016). Does culture matter? Cyberbullying perpetration and Cybervictimization in Mediterranean Sea Region. In M.F. Wright  (Ed.)A Social-Ecological Approach to Cyberbullying, pp.253-268, Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers.   

9- Bayraktar, F., Barbovschi, M., & Kontríková, V.  (2016) Risky sociability and personal agency: Offline meetings with online contacts among European children and adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 78-83. 

10- Wright, M.F., Yanagida, T., Sevcikova, A., Aoyama, I., Dedkova, L., Cerna, A., Li, Z., Kamble, S.V., Bayraktar, F., Soudi, S., Li, L. & Shu, C. (2016). Differences in Coping Strategies for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries. International Journal of Developmental Science, 10, 43-53. 

11- Wright, M. F.,Barbovschi, M. & Bayraktar, F. (2016). Do parents' attitudes toward outdoor play and hanging out influence adolescents' technology use? Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science, 6 (4), 244-254

12- Bayraktar, F. (2015). A step toward understanding cross-cultural and cross-national variances in cyberbullying.  In Cheever, N.,  Rosen, L.,  Carrier,M.  (Eds.). The Handbook of Psychology, Technology, and Society, pp.158-175, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK.  

13- Bayraktar, F., Machackova, H., Dedkova, L., Cerna, A., & Sevcikova, A. (2015). Cyberbullying: The discriminant factors among cyberbullies, cybervictims, and cyberbullies/victims in a Czech adolescent sample.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30 (18), 3192-3216. 

14- Bosman, J., Bayraktar, F., & d'Haenens, L. (2015). Children's digital media practices within the European family home: Does perceived discrimination matter? Journal of Children and Media, Special Issue: Children and Media in the Family Context, 77-94.  

 Dr. Burcu Kaya-Kızılöz ​

Burcu Kaya-Kızılöz is an assistant professor of cognitive psychology at the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. Burcu’s interest in cognition started during her undergraduate studies at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her interest in cognition turned into a passion for memory during her third year at the Human Memory course taught by Dr. Ali Tekcan. After completing her MA with a thesis on flashbulb memories, she spent 5 years as a research assistant at Bogazici University working at Ali Tekcan's Memory lab. She started her PhD studies at the same university in 2012 and graduated in 2018 with a thesis exploring cognition in depression. After working at several universities in Istanbul as a part time lecturer, she finally found her home and joined  EMU psychology department in September 2018.Although her main line of research is autobiographical memories, Burcu is also interested in executive functioning and especially the interaction between executive functioning and autobiographical memories. Her aim is to understand this interaction and how it affects psychological disorders like depression and anxiety. Not but not least, she is also very much interested in how culture and individual differences affect cognition.Together with Çığır Kalfaoğlu, Burcu established the Research in Memory and Action Lab at EMU in 2019 and running the memory division ever since. She is a member of Psychonomic Society and Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Publications 

Altan-Atalay, A., Kaya-Kızılöz, B., Dönger, İ., & Demiray, D. (2020). Brief State Rumination Inventory (BSRI): A Standardization Study for Turkish Speaking Populations. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 1-11.
 Tekcan, A. İ., Yılmaz, E., Kaya-Kızılöz, B., Karadöller, D. Z., Mutafoğlu, M., & Aktan Erciyes, A. (2015). Retrieval and phenomenology of autobiographical memories in blind individuals. Memory, 23(3), 329-339.Kaya-Kızılöz, B., & Tekcan, A. I. (2013). Canonical categories in flashbulb memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27(3), 352-359.Tekcan, A. İ., Kaya-Kızılöz, B., & Odaman, H. (2012). Life scripts across age groups: A comparison of adolescents, young adults, and older adults. Memory, 20(8), 836-847.Tekcan, A. İ., Topçuoğlu, V., & Kaya, B. (2007). Memory and metamemory for semantic information in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45 (9), 2164-2172.

Dr. Çığır Kalfaoğlu​

Dr. Kalfaoglu got his Hons. B.Sc. in Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 2007. He then went to the UK and received his M.Sc. in Applied Neuropsychology at the University of Nottingham in 2008. He later moved to Cardiff, UK, in 2008 and did voluntary research at the University of Cardiff with Dr. Simon Rushton, collecting and analyzing data for a number of projects about visual processes in depth perception. During this time, he also prepared his Ph.D. proposal about cognitive control in skilled actions and sent it out to a number of researchers. Dr. Tom Stafford in University of Sheffield agreed to supervise his proposal after which he started this work in July 2009. This project involved recording behavioral as well as EEG data while typists typed naturally and corrected their errors. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in October 2012 from the psychology department of University of Sheffield. 
Dr. Kalfaoglu moved back to Cyprus, and started working in Cyprus international University in September 2012, and moved to Eastern Mediterranean University in September 2013, where he is still employed as an Assistant Professor, teaching physiological psychology, neuropsychology and research methods courses.
His research interests are still closely aligned with cognitive control of skilled actions, and is developing an appetite for ethical decision making. 

Selected Publications

Kalfaoğlu, Ç., & Stafford, T. (2014). Performance Breakdown Effects Dissociate from Error Detection Effects in Typing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(3), 508–524. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.820762
Kalfaoglu, C., Stafford, T. and Milne, E. (2017) Frontal theta band oscillations predict error correction and posterror slowing in typing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. ISSN 0096-1523 https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000417

 Dr. Deniz Atalar​

Dr. Deniz Atalar is an assistant professor of traffic psychology in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. Deniz obtained a BSc in Psychology Psychology from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, an MSc in Applied Psychology from Brunel University, UK and then a PhD at Loughborough University, UK in Driver Behaviour. Here, he worked as a researcher in EU and UK funded projects in the realm of traffic safety. Deniz joined Eastern Mediterranean University in 2014 and is the current vice head of  department. His research interests cover a number of topics in driver behavior research, crash causation and vulnerable road user groups. He is working to help increase the number of academic publications in the field of traffic safety in North Cyprus and to provide guidelines for practitioners to use in the field.  

Selected Publications

Atalar, D., & Thomas, P. (2019) Powered two-wheeler crash scenario development, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Volume 125, Pages 198-206, ISSN 0001-4575, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.02.001.Atalar, D., Talbot, R., & Hill, J. (Eds) (2012) Training Package including training manual and draft protocols, Deliverable 2.3 of the EC FP7 project DaCoTAAtalar, D., Thomas, P., Kirk, A., Evgenikos, P., Papantoniou, P., Hermitte, T., & Van Elslande, P (2012) Catalogue of the Current Safety Systems, Deliverable 5.2 of the EC FP7 Project DaCoTA.

Dr. Dilek ÇELİK​

Dilek ÇELİK is an assistant professor of forensic psychology at the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University. Dilek got her B.A. (Psychology) and M.A. (Developmental Psychology) degrees from Boğaziçi University and PhD degree from Istanbul University, Institute of Forensic Sciences. Her research mainly focuses on child abuse and neglect, children in the justice system and the effect of childhood adversities on psychological wellbeing. She is also interested in understanding the dynamics of violence. Besides her academic studies, she is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge and experiences within the applied field for developing qualified evidence-based practices. She carries out various projects with many non-governmental organizations in the field of child protection and works as an expert witness in child sexual abuse cases in the legal system and evaluate the quality of forensic interviews and credibility of testimonies. 

Publication

Celik, D. (2019). Adli Görüşme (Forensic Interview). Polat O. (Eds.) Tüm Boyutlarıyla Çocuk İstismarı II: Önleme ve Rehabilitasyon. Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara. Burma, R., Akduman, İ., & Çelik, D. (2016). Examination of anger expression patterns and early abuse experiences in Turkish sex offenders. Journal of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, 13 (2), 23-34. Akduman, İ., Çelik, D., & Tiftik, N. (2016). Female murderers: Examination of the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and anger expression. International Journal of Human Sciences, 13(1), 1873-1888. Gönültaş, M. B., Akduman, İ., & Çelik, D. (2014). The role of substance abuse in juvenile delinquency and solution proposals. Journal of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, 11(2), 55-62.