Biography

  Ph.D., Job, Technology and Organizational Psychology, University of Helsinki, 2011.

  M.S., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2003.

  B.S., Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2000.

Research Areas

Professional drivers; human factors in driving; safety interventions in traffic and transportation environment; organizational culture, safety culture, safety performance.

Representative Publicatioıns

Öz, B., Özkan, T., & Lajunen, T. (2013). An investigation of professional drivers: Organizational safety climate, driver behaviours and performance. Transportation Research Part F, 16, 81-91.

Öz, B., Özkan, T., & Lajunen, T. (2010). Professional and non-professional drivers' stress reactions and risky driving. Transportation Research Part F, 13(1), 32-40.

Öz, B., Özkan, T., & Lajunen, T. (2010). An investigation of the relationship between organizational climate and professional drivers’ driver behaviours. Safety Science, 48, 1484-1489.

Öz, B, & Lajunen, T. (2008). Effects of organizational safety culture on driver behaviours and accident involvement amongst professional drivers. L. Dorn (ed.) Driver behaviour and training, 143-153. Hampshire: Ashgate.