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- 4. Salih is a psychologist who is concerned with how humans interact with the world around them. Specifically, he is interested in understanding the bidirectional relationship between human behavior and the environment they live in. By conducting research, he wants to understand how living within certain environments (e.g. cities) may impact human behavior and mental health. Moreover, he aims to identify and promote human behaviors that can help with the protection and prosperity of the environment.
- 5. Deniz is a psychologist who tries to find most appropriate methods and statistical techniques in psychology. His work stems from the complexity of actual human mind and behavior and work with a wide array of other subfields of psychology. Other than fellow academicians, he also helps to assess and evaluate the efficiency of social work policies in some governmental agencies.
- 7. Berna is a scientist whose field concerns over intrapersonal, interpersonal and intergroup aspects of social life. In this diverse field, Berna is mostly curious about our personality changes over time. Compared to Berna, some of her colleagues focus on less individual and more societal parts of social life, such as aggression and discrimination among many others. Many of her friends uses their education from this field in a wide array of domains such as charity, public health, advertising, politics.
- 9. Tuğba's academic interests cover human interaction with machinery and technology. She works in a multidisciplinary team collaborating others from diverse fields such as industrial design and mechanical engineering to develop most ergonomical devices for human use.
- 10. Mehmet is a psychologist whose main interest is the mental health and wellbeing of people. He conducts research on understanding, treating, and preventing various mental health problems and disorders. In addition to providing therapy to individual clients, he also works with the health ministry to plan and implement better psychological health care policies as well as to develop strategies to prevent the onset of psychological problems.
- 11. social factor related to their well-being (e.g., their relationship with family and caretakers). They mostly work in hospital and rehabilitation centers.
- 12. Dilara is a scientist whose academic work focuses on physical well-being and its biological, social and psychological predictors. She developed some of the most utilized models for health promoting behaviors. She has colleagues from many professional settings such as private practices, hospitals and primary care programs.
- 14. Ahmet is a psychologist whose main objectives are to help people cope with stress, deal with problems and crises in their lives, and improve their overall wellbeing. He understands how people (and their problems) change throughout their lives and he helps people identify their strengths that are crucial for their interactions with their environments.
- 15. Eda is a psychologist who focuses on how human beings change, adapt, and grow across their lifespan. Even though she is mainly interested in cognitive development, she also studies social and emotional growth. Some of her colleagues study physical, perceptual, intellectual, and personality growth. Along with conducting research and teaching, Eda also works between hospitals and mental health clinics to help assess and treat people with developmental problems.
- 16. Mert is a psychologist who is mainly interested in understanding the human brain. He studies how people acquire and perceive information as well as how this information is processed and stored. In his work, he uses technologies such as magnetic resonance (MRI) to help him observe brain reactions to stimuli and the ways in which brain structures can have an impact on various psychological outcomes. Mert and his colleagues believe their research will help find ways to treat problems like memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, sensory and perceptual problems.
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- 1. Ege is a psychologist who is concerned with answering theoretical questions about animal and human behavior using empirical research methods. Her field focuses on a variety of behavioral topics such as cognition and emotion. Ege spends her time conducting research on issues that may contribute to the research and application of other subfields of psychology.
- 2. Emre is a psychologist who studies performance enhancing conditions in physical activities. Currently, he is employed by a professional sports team to
- 3. Ceren is a social scientist who strives for understanding organizational dynamics in the workplace. Her previous work investigated predictive validity of personnel recruitment tests, but she is currently interested in developing interventions for to increase intrinsic motivation among the employees.
- 4. Irmak is an academician who tries to understand how people learn and retain knowledge. Her field combines social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of learning and offers an holistic approach for learning processes. While Irmak personally focuses on learning process of kindergarten children, some of her colleagues specializes in older children and even adults. In fact, many of her colleagues does not even focus on specific age group, but more on those individuals with learning difficulties.
- 6. Faruk is a psychologist who specifically focuses on disabled/chronically ill people and their quality of life. Even though they inform their patients about health promoting behaviors for their conditions, their work is not limited to disabled people but involves
- 8. their struggle for sustaining their efforts in crucial moments of the games. Meanwhile, one of his classmate helps surgeons on overcoming their anxiety during critical operations.
- 13. Sinem is a psychologist who contributes to the judicial system and public safety. She usually conducts evaluations to be utilized in legal processes. She works with the judicial system to help determine the psychological conditions of people involved in criminal cases. She can work in governmental institutions, military, psychiatric facilities, and prisons. While some of her colleagues work in academia, others help in the selection of juries and/or the training of police officers and first responders.