Research interests

• Conflict resolution
• Intergroup relations
• Imagined contact
• Self/identity
• Prejudice/stereotyping
• Risk perception
• Political psychology

Thesis Title

How do we perceive group deviance?

Supervisors

Professor Dominic Abrams (Main Supervisor)
Dr Roger Giner-Sorolla

Funding

Ministry of Education (North Cyprus)

Conference Presentations

Yetkili, O., Abrams, D. & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2010, September). How much can you trust an out-group deviant? A study on the effectiveness of imagined contact in reducing prejudice in the inter-ethnically divided island of Cyprus. Poster presentation at the Postgraduate Research Symposium, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Yetkili, O., Abrams, D & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2010, September). How much can you trust an out-group deviant? A study on the effectiveness of imagined contact in reducing prejudice in the inter-ethnically divided island of Cyprus. Poster presentation at the Social Cognition Network and Training Scheme Consultation Seminar, Canterbury, UK.

Yetkili, O. & Lyons, E. (2010 September). An investigation of the identity structure of Turkish Cypriots. Oral presentation at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Winchester, UK.

Teaching Commitments

Demonstator:
SP500 Psychology Statistics and Practical

School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NP
United Kingdom

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Email: Orkun Yetkili

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