96 results match your criteria: "MEF University[Affiliation]"
Front Public Health
December 2024
Acibadem University School of Medicine, History of Medicine and Ethics Department, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Background/aim: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks that require human-like cognitive functions, such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. Unlike human intelligence, AI does not involve sentience or consciousness but focuses on data processing, pattern recognition, and prediction through algorithms and learned experiences. In healthcare including neuroscience, AI is valuable for improving prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and surveillance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProc ACM Int Conf Multimodal Interact
November 2024
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania.
Head movements play a crucial role in social interactions. The quantification of communicative movements such as nodding, shaking, orienting, and backchanneling is significant in behavioral and mental health research. However, automated localization of such head movements within videos remains challenging in computer vision due to their arbitrary start and end times, durations, and frequencies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranscult Psychiatry
December 2024
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Youth Adolesc
September 2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Education, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Studies have shown that there are protective and risk factors related to cyber dating violence. However, the effect size of these factors is unclear. This study aims to clarify the effect size of the associations of protective and risk factors, as well as symptoms of mental health conditions, with cyber dating violence perpetration and victimization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommun Psychol
December 2023
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Exp Psychol Gen
September 2024
Department of Psychology, The New School.
Do collective crises have an impact on the characteristics of mental time travel for individuals and collectives? The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique context to address this question due to the intersection it created between the personal and the collective domains. In two studies ( = 273), we examined the valence and perceived agency involved in memory and future thinking for personal and collective domains. The second study also included a longitudinal component with 43 participants completing both studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Sociol
September 2024
Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), Istanbul, Türkiye.
The most prominent issue influencing Turkish-Armenian relations is the international recognition of the Armenian genocide. However, there is a notable absence of empirical analyses regarding the perceptions of the genocide among the Turkish population. This study aims to fill this scholarly gap by exploring, for the first time, the perspectives of Turkish Jews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDev Sci
September 2024
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Across development, as children acquire a deeper understanding of their environment, they explore less and take advantage, or "exploit," what they already know. Here, we test whether children also enforce exploration-oriented search behaviors onto others. Specifically, we ask whether children are more likely to encourage a search agent to explore versus exploit their environment, and whether this pattern varies across childhood (between 3 and 6 years).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViolence Against Women
April 2024
Psychological Counseling and Guidance, MEF University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
Drawing upon in-depth, semistructured interviews with 26 LGB participants, we explored how LGB individuals experience IPV uniquely in Türkiye. Conducting thematic analysis, we generated four themes: (a) invalidation of sexual identity, (b) controlling sexuality and sexual behaviors, (c) disclosure of sexual orientation, and (d) binegativity. The analysis emphasizes LGB-specific power dynamics influencing IPV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Res Adolesc
June 2024
Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Exposure to risk factors and adversity may cause immediate, and sometimes prolonged, psychological symptoms in adolescents. Identifying universal and specific risk factors in a particular context and examining their cumulative effects is crucial for understanding the mechanisms underlying psychological symptoms and informing about strategies for intervention. Using concurrent measures, the current study aimed to examine the role of armed conflict experiences and cumulation of other risk factors (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrain Commun
March 2024
Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.
This essay highlights the interplay between the neighbourhood structural environment and neighbourhood perceptions on dementia by articulating how an individual's perception of neighbourhood, with respect to their individual differences, may provide key insights to understand the link between the neighbourhood and dementia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Hum Neurosci
February 2024
Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Introduction: This study conducts a comprehensive exploration of the neurocognitive processes underlying consumer credit decision-making using cutting-edge techniques from neuroscience and machine learning (ML). Employing functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), the research examines the hemodynamic responses of participants while evaluating diverse credit offers.
Methods: The experimental phase of this study investigates the hemodynamic responses collected from 39 healthy participants with respect to different loan offers.
Front Hum Neurosci
December 2023
Department of Computer Engineering, MEF University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Introduction: Political neuromarketing is an emerging interdisciplinary field integrating marketing, neuroscience, and psychology to decipher voter behavior and political leader perception. This interdisciplinary field offers novel techniques to understand complex phenomena such as voter engagement, political leadership, and party branding.
Methods: This study aims to understand the neural activation patterns of voters when they are exposed to political leaders using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and machine learning methods.
Arch Sex Behav
February 2024
Educational Psychology Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g.
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February 2024
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Psychol Assess
January 2024
Institute of Psychology, Mykolas Romeris University.
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety. In a large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries ( = 21,513), we examined the CAS's measurement invariance and assessed the convergent validity of CAS scores in relation to the fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) and the satisfaction with life (SWLS-3) scales. We utilized both conventional exact invariance tests and alignment procedures, with results revealing that the single-factor model fit the data well in almost all countries.
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February 2024
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Witnessing interparental conflict in childhood predicts psychological dating violence victimization (PDVV) in adulthood. As found in previous studies, PDVV and hopelessness are associated with depression. However, the associations among these four variables have not been explored in detail.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJBRA Assist Reprod
July 2023
Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
Objective: The disease in which we observe the invasion and growth of endometrial cells on extrauterine tissues and organs with the creation of a chronic inflammatory state is called endometriosis. It causes infertility and is present in more than 30% of patients with endometriosis. Diagnosis and treatment of the disease is most often delayed for about 8 years after the first symptoms were reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Rep
July 2023
Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Although studies have so far investigated social dominance orientation (SDO) in relation to its association with prejudice and discrimination toward outgroups, it is not known whether SDO's link with poor intergroup relations might be underlined by specific socio-cognitive factors such as reduced mind-reading motivation (MRM) and poor mind-reading performance. The present study tested whether endorsement of SDO is associated with decreased MRM and mind-reading accuracy toward both ingroup and outgroup targets. We randomly assigned one hundred and 20 Turkish university students ( = 22.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Exp Child Psychol
August 2023
Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Faculty of Education, MEF University, Sarıyer, Istanbul 34396, Turkey.
The current study investigated children's judgments on procedural justice and its outcomes when the candidates were equal in merit but different in need. A total of 88 children (41 girls and 47 boys) aged 7 to 11 years were individually interviewed (M = 8 years 9 months, SD = 14.065 months).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViolence Vict
April 2023
Lecturer, Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, TED University, Ankara, Turkey.
The current study investigates how associations between internalized heterosexism (IH) and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization differ for lesbian vs. bisexual (LB) women in Denmark, where queer people are relatively well accepted, and Turkey, where discrimination is still very high. The first purpose of the current study is to explore differences in the prevalence of psychological IPV victimization as a function of sexual orientation (LB women) and country (Denmark and Turkey).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDev Sci
September 2024
Department of Early Childhood Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban areas of four countries (Malaysia, N = 372; China, N = 441; Turkey, N = 402; and Japan, N = 294) reported on four parenting constructs (authoritative, authoritarian, group harmony socialization, and intrusive control) and their sub-dimensions using modified culturally relevant measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComput Econ
February 2023
Department of Economics and Finance, Piri Reis University, 34940 Istanbul, Turkey.
This paper seeks to identify the causal impact of educational human capital on social distancing behavior at workplace in Turkey using district-level data for the period of April 2020 - February 2021. We adopt a unified causal framework, predicated on domain knowledge, theory-justified constraints anda data-driven causal structure discovery using causal graphs. We answer our causal query by employing machine learning prediction algorithms; instrumental variables in the presence of latent confounding and Heckman's model in the presence of selection bias.
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