Principal Investigator
İbrahim Hakkı Acar, Ph.D.
Prof.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., Prof.Dr. Acar worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year. Prof.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
PhD Program Research Assistants
Halide Koçyiğit
Hüseyin Yalçıner
Graduate Research Assistant
Selin Ünser
Selin Ünser is a graduate 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.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Anesa Balkan
Ayça Ak
Bahar Uysal
Berk Memişoğlu
Defne Göktaş
Deren Amasya
Dilara Nur Aydın
Duru Kırlıkovalı
Duru Yılmaz
Ekin Nalbantoğlu
Esra Aytemir
Göksu Şimşek
Gülce Yenigün
İrem Avcı
Lal Konar
Nisanur Öztürk
Şevval Çukutli
Umut Oğur
Yağmur Taş
Zehra Başoğul
Zeynep Durdu