Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Alienated imagination through a mega development project in Turkey: the case of the Osman Gazi Bridge
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-05)Since the rise of the ruling Justice and Development Party in the early 2000s, Turkey has invested in several mega transport and infrastructure projects for the purposes of economic transformation, growth, and development. ... -
Parental involvement and children’s peer interactions
(Springer, 2022-07)Children require parental support to successfully develop social and academic skills during early years. We examined the link between parental involvement and preschool children’s peer interactions. We recruited 442 children ... -
Parental burnout across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Hogrefe Publishing, 2022-07)The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies worldwide. The heightened levels of stress that accompanied the crisis were also expected to affect parenting in many families. Since it is known that high levels of stress ... -
Early teacher–child relationships promote self-regulation development in prekindergarten
(MDPI, 2022-07)Children’s experiences during the prekindergarten period are critical for shaping their emerging self-regulation skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of teacher–child relationship quality to ... -
Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation, 2022-07)Following the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of ... -
Speaking and gesturing guide event perception during message conceptualization: Evidence from eye movements
(Elsevier, 2022-08)Speakers' visual attention to events is guided by linguistic conceptualization of information in spoken language production and in language-specific ways. Does production of language-specific co-speech gestures further ... -
Adolescent–parent relationships and youth well-being in Turkey
(Wiley, 2022-09)In this article, I review research on adolescent–parent relationships and youth well-being in Turkey. Turkey is a country that has changed rapidly due to urbanization and globalization, and that is characterized by cultural ... -
Using social media to monitor conflict-related migration: A review of implications for A.I. forecasting
(MDPI, 2022-09)Following the large-scale 2015–2016 migration crisis that shook Europe, deploying big data and social media harvesting methods became gradually popular in mass forced migration monitoring. These methods have focused on ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-09)Every day people see, describe, and remember motion events. However, the relation between multimodal encoding of motion events in speech and gesture, and memory is not yet fully understood. Moreover, whether language ... -
Externalising externalisation and bad governance of migration in the EU: Turkey learning from Europe
(Springer, 2022-09-05)While the European Union (EU) might not do likewise, Fortress Europe is definitely enlarging. Reports (see, for example, Akkerman 2018) underline the momentous growth in Europe's border externalisation policies using various ... -
Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout
(Wiley, 2022-11)Objectives: Parental burnout is a prevalent condition that affects parents' functioning and health. While various protective factors have been examined, little is known about their interplay. In the current study, we ... -
Relations among self-reported maternal stress, smartphone use, and mother–child interactions
(Springer, 2022-11)A growing body of research indicates that parents’ smartphone use is associated with interruptions in parent–child interactions and lower levels of parental responsiveness, which may adversely affect children’s cognitive ... -
Relations between bedtime parenting behaviors and temperament across 14 cultures
(Frontiers Media, 2022-11-24)Objectives: The present study examined parental sleep-supporting practices during toddlerhood in relation to temperament across 14 cultures. We hypothesized that passive sleep-supporting techniques (e.g., talking, cuddling), ... -
Being a forestry labourer in the late Ottoman Empire: Debt bondage, migration, and sedentarization
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)This article examines the survival strategies of forestry workers and craftspeople in the late Ottoman Empire. Through the example of the Tahtacl, a semi-nomadic community specialized in lumbering in the forests along the ... -
What should I do and who’s to blame? A cross-national study on youth’s attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19
(Public Library of Science, 2022-12-21)The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on youth. This study examined factors associated with youth’s attitudes towards their government’s response to the pandemic and their blaming of individuals from certain risk ... -
Culture in physical activity: The contribution of basic psychological needs and goal orientation
(MDPI, 2022-12)Numerous variables affect motivation in physical activity (PA) with culture being an understudied variable. Self-determination theory’s basic psychological needs (BPN) includes a combination of autonomy, competence, and ... -
Reforming Laïcité or reforming islam? Secularism, islam, and the regulation of religion in France
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2021)This paper focuses on management of Islam by the French State since the state of emergency declared in 2015. We analyze the legal actions of the State using a law-in-context approach and theorize secularism as the State's ... -
Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
(The Cognitive Science Society, 2021)There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy ... -
From empires past to nation state: Figurative public statues in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Statues, landmarks, and monumental architecture visibly mark and inscribe meaning into urban space. This is true everywhere, but it is particularly striking in Istanbul. When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in ... -
The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)This chapter tells the story of an imperial town’s transformation into a national city. It will start with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the nineteenth century. With its Armenian ...
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