Biography

  Ph.D., York University, 2008

  MS, Middle East Technical University, 2003

  BS, Middle East Technical University, 1999

Research Areas

Social identity theory, national and cultural identity, intergroup relations, political psychology, cultural psychology.

Representative Publications

Cingöz-Ulu, B. and Lalonde, R.N. (2007). The Role of Culture and Relational Context in Interpersonal Conflict: Do Turks and Canadians Use Different Conflict Management Strategies? International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 31 (4), 443-458.

Cingöz, B., Schuller, R. A. & Lalonde, R. N. (2006). Attitudes towards rape victims: The role of culture, identification, and honour. Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece.

Cingöz, B., Schuller, R. A. & Lalonde, R. N. (2006). The role of culture and identification in predicting attitudes towards rape victims: Canada and Turkey compared. Poster presented the 67th Annual Convention of Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Alberta.

Konanur, S., Lalonde, R. N., Uskul, A. & Cingöz, B. (2006). Support for intercultural dating among South Asian Canadian and European Canadian populations: Do cultural, generational, and gender differences exist? Poster presented the 67th Annual Convention of Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Alberta.

Cingöz, B. (2005). A cross-cultural comparison of conflict management strategies in same-sex friendships, cross-sex friendships and romantic relationships. Poster presented at the annual convention of the CPA, Montreal, QC.

Lalonde, R. N., Lakhani, N., Cingöz, B. and Cameron, J.(2005). Attitude toward professional immigrants: The role of immigrant ethnicity, social dominance orientation, and zero-sum beliefs. Poster presented at the annual convention of the EEASP, Germany.

Working Papers

Cingöz-Ulu, B., & Lalonde, R. N. (in progress). Ingroup identification and intergroup differentiation: A meta-analytic review.

Schuller, R. A. Cingöz-Ulu, B., & Lalonde, R. N. (in progress). Attitudes towards rape victims: The role of culture, identification, honour, and social dominance orientation.

Thesis

Cingöz-Ulu, B. (2008). Structure of Turkish national identity and attitudes towards ethno-cultural groups in Turkey. (PhD Dissertation, York University, 2008).

Cingöz, B. (2003). Comparison of same-sex friendships, cross-sex friendships and romantic relationships. (MS Thesis, Middle East Technical University,2003).