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8224
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Overview

Ayse K. Uskul is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on social psychology and intersects with sociology, political science, and cognitive neuroscience. The areas of study covered in their work include cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their scholarly output includes recent papers such as "Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries" (2021, PLoS ONE), "Implications of culture of honor theory and research for practitioners and prevention researchers" (2020, American Psychologist), "The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes" (2022, Social and Personality Psychology Compass), "Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies" (2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), and "Editorial overview: What is socio-ecological psychology?" (2020, Current Opinion in Psychology).

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ayse K. Uskul comprise:

  • Alexander Kirchner-Häusler
  • Susan E. Cross
  • Stefano Pagliaro
  • Charis Psaltis
  • Pelin Gül

Their work spans several main topics including:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Best Publications

  • A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia.

    Shinobu Kitayama;Hyekyung Park;A. Timur Sevincer;Mayumi Karasawa

  • Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

    Shinobu Kitayama;Ayse K. Uskul

  • Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders

    Ayse K. Uskul;Shinobu Kitayama;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Why social values cannot be changed for the sake of conservation.

    Michael J. Manfredo;Jeremy T. Bruskotter;Tara L. Teel;David C. Fulton

  • The cultural congruency effect: Culture, regulatory focus, and the effectiveness of gain- vs. loss-framed health messages

    Ayse K. Uskul;David K. Sherman;John Fitzgibbon

  • Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries.

    Stefano Pagliaro;Simona Sacchi;Maria Giuseppina Pacilli;Marco Brambilla

  • Psychological wellbeing in a Turkish-Canadian sample.

    Ayse K. Uskul;Esther Greenglass

  • Honor Bound The Cultural Construction of Honor in Turkey and the Northern United States

    Ayse K. Uskul;Susan E. Cross;Zeynep Sunbay;Berna Gercek-Swing

  • Cultural Prototypes and Dimensions of Honor

    Susan E. Cross;Ayse K. Uskul;Berna Gerçek-Swing;Zeynep Sunbay

  • Interdependence as a Mediator between Culture and Interpersonal Closeness for Euro-Canadians and Turks

    Ayse K. Uskul;Michaela Hynie;Richard N. Lalonde

  • Women's menarche stories from a multicultural sample.

    Ayse K Uskul;Ayse K Uskul

  • When message-frame fits salient cultural-frame, messages feel more persuasive.

    Ayse K. Uskul;Daphna Oyserman

  • Improving Medical Decision Making and Health Promotion through Culture-Sensitive Health Communication : an Agenda for Science and Practice

    Cornelia Betsch;Robert Böhm;Collins O. Airhihenbuwa;Robb Butler

  • Maintaining Harmony Across the Globe The Cross-Cultural Association Between Closeness and Interpersonal Forgiveness

    Johan C. Karremans;Camillo Regalia;F. Giorgia Paleari;Frank D. Fincham

  • Unfair treatment and self-regulatory focus

    Daphna Oyserman;Ayse K. Uskul;Nicholas Yoder;Randolph M. Nesse

  • Cross-cultural emotional prosody recognition: Evidence from Chinese and British listeners

    Silke Paulmann;Ayse K. Uskul

  • Culture shapes empathic responses to physical and social pain.

    David Atkins;Ayse K. Uskul;Nicholas R. Cooper

  • Cultural Emphasis on Honor, Modesty, or Self‐Enhancement: Implications for the Survey‐Response Process

    Ayşe K. Uskul;Daphna Oyserman;Norbert Schwarz

  • Individualism and collectivism: Societal-level processes with implications for individual-level and society-level outcomes.

    Daphna Oyserman;Ayse K. Uskul

  • Culture moderates children's responses to ostracism situations.

    Harriet Over;Ayse K. Uskul

  • Culture, mind, and the brain: Current evidence and future

    Ayse K Uskul;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders [Erratum: 2008 Aug. 19, v. 105, no. 33, p. 12094.]

    Ayse K. Uskul;Shinobu Kitayama;Richard E. Nisbett

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daphna Oyserman
Daphna Oyserman University of Southern California
Harriet Over
Harriet Over University of York
Richard N. Lalonde
Richard N. Lalonde York University
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Silke Paulmann
Silke Paulmann University of Essex
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California

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