Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi / Faculty of Letters and Science
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Item How Far are E-Scooters Healthy Transport?(2023) Tekes, Burcu; Musselwhite, Charles; 0000-0002-6601-1023; K-2947-2014Item Personal Experiences Of Blind Road Users In Traffic Settings: An Investigation Based On The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis(2022) Koca-Atabey, Mujde; Oz, Bahar; Tekes, BurcuPurpose: One of the key features of independent living is having full access to a safer and comfortable transportation system. Understanding traffic experiences is critical for establishing such a system; however, these experiences have found relatively limited attention within the disability literature so far. Present study aimed to explore the traffic experiences of blind road users for the first time in the literature. Materials and methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 blind road users in Turkey. There were three female and eight male participants. The interviews were lasted around 60-65 min and transcribed verbatim. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used for data analysis. Results: IPA results revealed four superordinate themes based on prevalence as the main criterion in the decision-making process. The superordinate themes are named as Environmental Factors, Personal Preferences, Social Interactions and Positive Moments. The Environmental Factors su-perordinate theme has three subthemes as Infrastructure Factors, Vehicle Factors and Weather Factors. The Social Interactions superordinate theme has a subtheme called: People Insist On. Conclusion: It is concluded that being a blind road user is a challenging experience especially when the environment is chaotic, coercive and unfriendly. In order to improve accessibility for blind people, both physical and social systems should be improved and restored by changing the widespread attitudes, practices, policies, and culture at the end.Item Is ingroup favoritism contingent on the expectation of reciprocity from ingroup members?: The case of reputation manipulation(2019) Kologlugil, Serhat; Tekes, BurcuWe use a game of cooperation with minimal groups to test whether ingroup favoritism can be explained by the expectation of reciprocity from ingroup members. To do this, we first manipulate participants' level expected cooperation from ingroup and outgroup partners by letting them play the game with different partners having different (high or low) cooperative reputations. We then analyze how these expectations affect ingroup bias in the game across different reputation conditions. We find that even if subjects expect the same level of cooperation from ingroup and outgroup partners withhigh reputation, they still cooperate more with the former than the latter. This contradicts the reciprocity hypothesis in the literature which explains intergroup discrimination solely in reference to differential reciprocal expectations. But, against ingroup and outgroup partners withlow cooperative reputation, subjects' level of cooperation almost exactly parallel their reciprocal expectations. This result is in line with the reciprocity hypothesis. We explain these findings by arguing that both reciprocal expectations and social identity play their parts in the emergence of ingroup favoritism, but that their relative strengths may depend on the interaction with other contextual factors. We also argue in favor of further experimental research as to how reciprocity and social identity interact with such third factors as partner's reputation in different games of social exchange.Item Political Orientations and Morality Judgments in the Turkish Context: Considering the Roles of the Needs for Cognition and Recognition(2020) Tekes, Burcu; Imamoglu, E. Olcay; Ozdemir, Fatih; Oner-Ozkan, Bengi; 0000-0002-6601-1023; 31928376; K-2947-2014The aims of this study were to test: (a) the association of political orientations with morality orientations, specified by moral foundations theory, on a sample of young adults from Turkey, representing a collectivistic culture; and (b) the statistically mediating roles of needs for cognition and recognition in the links between political orientation and morality endorsements. According to the results (a) right-wing orientation and need for recognition were associated with all the three binding foundations (i.e., in-group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity); (b) right-wing orientation was associated with binding foundations also indirectly via the role of need for recognition; (c) regarding individualizing foundations, left-wing orientation and need for cognition were associated with fairness/reciprocity, whereas only gender was associated with harm/care; and (d) left-wing orientation was associated with fairness dimension also indirectly via the role of need for cognition. The cultural relevance of moral foundations theory as well as the roles of needs for cognition and recognition are discussed.Item Individual Differences in Anxiety and Worry, Not Anxiety Disorders, Predict Weakened Executive Control: Preliminary Evidence(2019) Booth, Robert W.; Tekes, Burcu; 0000-0002-6601-1023; K-2947-2014People high in anxiety tend to be low in executive control. However, it is unclear whether this control impairment is more associated with high anxiety, or with anxiety disorder. We collected an internet sample of 29 individuals with diagnosed anxiety disorders and 97 without anxiety disorders, and measured their state and trait anxiety, worry, attentional control and cognitive failures using self-report measures. State anxiety, trait anxiety and worry all significantly predicted attentional control and cognitive failures. Having an anxiety disorder was not related to either attentional control or cognitive failures once anxiety or worry was controlled. Contemporary theories suggest poor executive control is a risk factor for anxiety disorders; these preliminary results suggest poor executive control may be a risk factor for high anxiety, but is not directly related to having a diagnosable anxiety disorder. Key words: anxiety, worry, executive control, attentional control, cognitive failures.