Principal Investigator

İbrahim Hakkı Acar, Ph.D.

Dr. İbrahim Hakkı Acar obtained his B.A. from the Trakya University, Department of Elementary Teaching in 2010, M.S. as a Fulbright Scholar in Child, Youth and Family Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013, and Ph.D. in Human Sciences from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2016. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Acar worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year. Dr. Acar’s research areas are protective factors (regulatory temperament, executive functioning) and risk factors (difficult temperament, poverty) for children’s social and academic development. In addition, children’s access to nature and outdoors and its contribution to their prosocial behavior and environmental moral reasoning.

Research Areas: Socioemotional development of children, adult-child relationships, the influences of individual differences (temperament) on children’s social and academic development, nature and outdoor activities in early childhood.

ibrahim.acar@ozyegin.edu.tr  |  CV  |  Google Scholar  |  ResearchGate

Graduate Assistants

Zeynep Beken

Zeynep Beken is a graduate student in Applied Developmental Psychology at Özyeğin University. She graduated from Özyeğin University, Department of Psychology in 2020. Her research interest focuses on various aspects of social-emotional development in early childhood, such as temperament, attachment, and parenting styles.

Selin Ünser

Selin Ünser

Selin Ünser is a gradauate student in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at Özyeğin University. She graduated in top 3  from the Psychology department of Özyeğin University in 2022. Her areas of interest in research include self-regulation skills in early childhood, parent-child interaction, teacher-child interaction, and social-emotional development.

Süeda Vardar

Süeda Vardar Photo

Süeda Vardar is a graduate student in Applied Developmental Psychology at Özyeğin University. She graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Psychology in 2021.

Her research focuses on parenting behaviors, parent-child relationship and social-emotional development in disadvantaged context.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Ayşe Aydın
Başak Çorabcıoğlu
Berra Darıcı
Ceren Tura
Elif Gökçe Baykal
Elif Salman
Elif Yalçınalp
Gizem Ezgi Akyol
Gökdeniz Demirkaya

Halil İbrahim Nebioğlu
Hande Kütük
Hanedan Bilevci
Helin Badikanlı
Heval Yolcu
İpek Suna
İrem Özmen
Melike Yazıcı
Nida Çivici

Özge Koç
Rabia Devran
Rana Kaygun
Şevval Çakıcı
Tuğba Güven
Tuğçe Iğnak
Vahide Taşdelen
Yaren Zeynep Uğuz
Zeynep Acar

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