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  • 2004 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Ozlem Ayduk is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of psychology, with a focus on social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cultural differences and values, mental health research topics, social and intergroup psychology, attachment and relationship dynamics, behavioral health and interventions, and aspects of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Emotion
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Scientific Reports
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

They have coauthored extensively with several researchers, notably:

  • Ethan Kross
  • Ariana Orvell
  • Jason S. Moser
  • Kathryn E. Schertz
  • Oliver P. John

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ozlem Ayduk include:

  • Does Distanced Self-Talk Facilitate Emotion Regulation Across a Range of Emotionally Intense Experiences? (2020) published in Clinical Psychological Science
  • Self-Reflection at Work: Why It Matters and How to Harness Its Potential and Avoid Its Pitfalls (2023) published in Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • Asymmetries in Mutual Understanding: People With Low Status, Power, and Self-Esteem Understand Better Than They Are Understood (2020) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect (2023) published in Political Psychology
  • From the laboratory to daily life: Preliminary evidence that self-distancing training buffers vulnerable individuals against daily rumination and depression over time (2022) published in Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice

Ozlem Ayduk was awarded the Hellman Fellow recognition in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride

    E. Tory Higgins;Ronald S. Friedman;Robert E. Harlow;Lorraine Chen Idson

  • Introduction to personality : toward an integrative science of the person

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later

    B. J. Casey;Leah H. Somerville;Ian H. Gotlib;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Regulating the Interpersonal Self: Strategic Self-Regulation for Coping With Rejection Sensitivity

    Ozlem Ayduk;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Walter Mischel;Geraldine Downey

  • When asking "why" does not hurt. Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions

    Ethan Kross;Ozlem Ayduk;Walter Mischel

  • ‘Willpower’ over the life span: decomposing self-regulation

    Walter Mischel;Ozlem Ayduk;Marc G. Berman;B. J. Casey

  • Willpower in a cognitive affective processing system: The dynamics of delay of gratification

    Walter Mischel;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Predicting Cognitive Control From Preschool to Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Inge Marie Eigsti;Vivian Zayas;Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda

  • Facilitating Adaptive Emotional Analysis: Distinguishing Distanced-Analysis of Depressive Experiences From Immersed-Analysis and Distraction

    Ethan Kross;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing

    Ethan Kross;Ozlem Ayduk

  • From a distance: implications of spontaneous self-distancing for adaptive self-reflection.

    Özlem Ayduk;Ethan Kross

  • Rejection sensitivity and male violence in romantic relationships

    Geraldine Downey;Scott Feldman;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Rejection sensitivity and disruption of attention by social threat cues

    Kathy R. Berenson;Anett Gyurak;Özlem Ayduk;Geraldine Downey

  • Rejection Sensitivity and Depressive Symptoms in Women

    Ozlem Ayduk;Geraldine Downey;Minji Kim

  • Preschoolers' delay of gratification predicts their body mass 30 years later.

    Tanya R. Schlam;Nicole L. Wilson;Yuichi Shoda;Walter Mischel

  • Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: how you do it matters

    Ethan Kross;Emma Bruehlman-Senecal;Jiyoung Park;Aleah Burson

  • Rejection Sensitivity and the Rejection–Hostility Link in Romantic Relationships

    Rainer Romero-Canyas;Geraldine Downey;Kathy Berenson;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Rejection Sensitivity and the Defensive Motivational System: Insights From the Startle Response to Rejection Cues

    Geraldine Downey;Vivian Mougios;Ozlem Ayduk;Bonita E. London

  • Individual differences in the rejection-aggression link in the hot sauce paradigm: The case of Rejection Sensitivity.

    Özlem Ayduk;Anett Gyurak;Anna Luerssen

  • Rejection Sensitivity and Executive Control: Joint predictors of Borderline Personality features.

    Özlem Ayduk;Vivian Zayas;Geraldine Downey;Amy Blum Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel Columbia University
Yuichi Shoda
Yuichi Shoda University of Washington
Geraldine Downey
Geraldine Downey Columbia University
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton University of California, Berkeley
Anett Gyurak
Anett Gyurak Stanford University
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Jason S. Moser
Jason S. Moser Michigan State University
Marc G. Berman
Marc G. Berman University of Chicago

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