Author: ikizere

Dr. Ikizer coauthors in a cross-cultural study including English- and Turkish-speaking participants, published in the Journal of Experiment Psychology: General. Across four pre-registered studies, participants were asked to evaluate different types of real and hypothetical pronouns, including binary gender pronouns, race pronouns, and identity-neutral pronouns. Participants’ reasoning about pronouns reflected a familiarity preference (i.e., participants…

Dr. Ikizer from the Psychology Department published a bibliography on affirmative action in Oxford Bibliographies. This work reviews the research in psychology and adjacent fields, balancing both supporting and opposing views on affirmative action. The paper considers (a) a range of resources examining multiple facets of the topic, (b) assessments of the effectiveness of affirmative…

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dr. Elif Ikizer, recently published a paper titled Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Across two preregistered studies, Dr. Ikizer examined data from 174,325 participants across 80 countries. She looked at stigma from a multilevel perspective…