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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 ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages
(The Cognitive Science Society, 2019)In everyday life, people see, describe and remember motion events. We tested whether the type of motion event information (path or manner) encoded in speech and gesture predicts which information is remembered and if this ... -
Status quo conservatism, placation, or partisan division? Analysing citizen attitudes towards financial reform in the United States
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-04)Within the literature on financial governance a key question is why the 2008 financial crisis did not elicit a stronger regulatory reaction than it did - the 'post-crisis stasis' puzzle. We explore a neglected dimension ... -
Stepping into the global: Turkish professionals, employment in transnational corporations, and aspiration to transnational forms of cultural capital
(Sage, 2018-05)This article explores the narratives of professionals from Turkey working in transnational corporations to contribute to discussions of new middle classes and global stratification focusing on emerging forms of cultural ... -
Stigma for common mental disorders in racial minorities and majorities a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-08)Background: There is a strong stigma attached to mental disorders preventing those affected from getting psychological help. The consequences of stigma are worse for racial and/or ethnic minorities compared to racial and/or ... -
The strategic logic of digital disinformation: Offence, defence and deterrence in information warfare
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)Why do countries engage in disinformation campaigns even though they know that they will likely be debunked later on? We explore a core puzzle in information warfare in which countries that pursue disinformation to confuse ... -
The strategic use of narratives and governance of the COVID-19 pandemic in major autocratisers in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes ... -
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The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have ... -
Students’ self-presentation on Facebook: an examination of personality and self-construal factors
(Elsevier, 2012-11)The present research seeks to extend existing theory on self-disclosure to the online arena in higher educational institutions and contribute to the knowledge base and understanding about the use of a popular social ... -
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement’s response in turkey
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Suggestions on the social meaning and functions of akhi hospices in medieval anatolia
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-01-01)The Islamic tradition of futuwwa (Turk. futuvvet), or ethical codes, received a certain degree of political legitimacy when the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah (r. 1180–1225) admitted it to courtly life. Soon after, ... -
Supporting preschool children’s executive functions: Evidence from a group-based play intervention
(Springer, 2023-12)The current study endeavors to assess the impact of the Preschool Executive Functions Intervention Program (PEFIP) on children's executive functions. A quasi-experimental design was employed, encompassing both pre-test and ... -
Symbolism overshadows the effect of physical size in supra-second temporal illusions
(Springer Nature, 2019-11)The perception of quantities has been suggested to rely on shared, magnitude-based representational systems that preserve metric properties. As such, different quantifiable dimensions that can characterize any given stimulus ... -
The synergy of teacher-child dependency and temperament for children’s early language skills
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-04)Shy children are less likely to interact with peers and teachers, ask questions, and participate in classroom activities. Children low in attention and inhibitory control also perform worse academically. Although research ... -
Systemic individual therapy: Therapeutic change from the perspective of clients and therapists
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)Therapeutic change is a well-studied construct in psychotherapy process and outcome studies, providing the basis for how psychotherapy practices are effective in individuals wellbeing. The current study explores the ... -
Tackling Duhemian problems: an alternative to skepticism of neuroimaging in philosophy of cognitive science
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-12)Duhem’s problem arises especially in scientific contexts where the tools and procedures of measurement and analysis are numerous and complex. Several philosophers of cognitive science have cited its manifestations in fMRI ... -
Teachers' innovativeness and teaching approach: The mediating role of creative classroom behaviors
(Scientific Journal Publishers, 2018-10)We examined the associations between teachers' innovativeness, creative classroom behaviors, and teaching approach (constructivist and traditional) focusing in particular, on the mediating role of teachers' creative classroom ... -
Technology and social theory
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012-10)More than twenty-five years ago social theorist Randall Collins aptly pointed out that technology was one of sociology’s “unexplored dark spots.” Had he then perused the pages of Technology and Culture, he could have noted ... -
Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross-cultural differences
(Wiley, 2023-07-04)Early temperament attributes have been linked to emerging behaviour problems and significant long-term consequences; however, these relations are rarely examined cross-culturally. The present study addresses this gap, ...
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