
Selected Talks
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November 2022: Oxford Brookes University, UK
What can dance do against rising loneliness and mental health problems in young people?
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June 2022: International Conference on Social Identity and Health (ICSIH-5)
Social alignment and mental wellbeing in the pandemic
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January 2022: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
Chicken and egg? Unravelling the links between over-imitation and social affiliation
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October 2021: Nottingham Trent University, UK
Social bonding and movement alignment in children and autism
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May 2021: Public seminar at TORCH, University of Oxford, UK
It'll never work on Zoom: learnings in online participation
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January 2021: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Germany
Is social distancing a social norm?
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November 2020: University College London, Action & Body Group, UK
Why do people adhere to Covid-19 guidelines: Insights from a global study
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May 2019: International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Canada
Measuring imitation ability in autism using dynamic time warping applied to a dance video game task
Chameleon effect in autism: Decreased mimicry of body movements in social interaction contexts
Tell me more: Storytelling in autism reflects motor, executive, and social impairments
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March 2019: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), USA
Taking it slow: reduced tempo training improves dance movement imitation in children with autism
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May 2018: University of Manchester, Body, Eyes and Movement (BEAM) Lab, Manchester, UK
Inter-personal movement synchrony and social bonding across development
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June 2017: Society for Philosophy and Psychology 43rd Meeting, USA
Inferring social affiliation from synchronous movements
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June 2016: Aegina Summer School, Greece
Movement synchrony facilitates social bonding across group divides
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Professional development talks (2017 - pres.): Psikologlar Akademi, TAF Network, Avcilar Evrim Atolyesi, Ege University Psychology Society
Teaching
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I teach undergraduate and Master's level classes on Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods.
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Guest lectures: Introduction to Autism (2019-2021), Social Communication in Autism (2019-2020), Ethics in Research with Human Participants (2016)
Supervision
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Currently supervising 3 MSc students and 1 PhD student in Applied Psychology at NTU
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Co-supervised a PhD student to successful completion in the University of Oxford
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Supervised several MSc (NTU, University of Nottingham) and BSc (NTU, Johns Hopkins Univ.) students