Social Minds Lab

The head of our lab, Dr. Terry Eskenazi held "Predictive Brains: How we predict the world, others and ourselves..." workshop on Koç University Neuroscience Festival 2025 as the Assistant Professor of Psychology. 🙌 #somilab #socialcognition #neuroscience

That’s a wrap!👏👏👏 We had the honor of having @HenrykBukowski as the guest speaker on our Social Cognition Talks series. A special thanks to Mr. Henryk for his efforts and an amazing presentation. #socialcognition #somilab

Delighted to invite you to the next event of Social Cognition Talks! We will be hosting Dr. Henryk Bukowski from UCLouvain (BE) to present his talk "Social Perspective Taking Across Clinical Populations." We look forward to seeing you there for an engaging academic discussion.

Proud to announce a new publication in collaboration with @KuLanguage — now published on Cognitive Science!

We are recruiting! Apply on: gsssh.ku.edu.tr/en/departments… Find out more on our website somi.ku.edu.tr

Derin Eda Saniz @DerinDerelioglu successfully defended her thesis titled “The Effects of Repetition on False Memories: The Role of Memory Beliefs, Confidence, and Anxiety in the Illusory Truth Effect” and received an MA degree! Congrats Derin 🥳

Excited to present our latest work tomorrow at ISBCS 2024! #ISBCS2024 @isbcs2024

Second Dr. in the house! Congratulations to Dr. Dicle Çapan @diclecapan on successfully defending her dissertation and completing years of dedicated research! 🥳

We are looking for MA and PhD applications! Deadline: May 12 📝

If you are willing to attend the talk and are not from Koç University, fill out the form! forms.gle/VdUj9hG2rqfZNx…

The Department of Psychology at Koç University has full-time faculty and instructor positions in Clinical Psychology. The deadline is April 30! Please reach out if you have any questions!

Our study, led by Dicle Çapan @diclecapan, Terry Eskenazi, and Sami Gülgöz @sgulgoz, has been selected as the editor's choice and will be available free for the next months! Check out the full paper here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-…

Bilişsel Nörobilim ne yapar? Terry Eskenazi'nin (@terryeskenazi) Bilişsel Bilimin Temelleri Yaz Okulu'ndaki "Bilişsel Nörobilim" başlıklı sunumundan bir alıntı 🙌

Lackner et al. show that individuals with an intermediate level of science knowledge tend to have overconfidence in their own knowledge, and negative attitudes to science. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Somi Lab’de @LabSomi yürütülen çalışmamıza katılımcı arayışımız sürüyor. Linkteki kısa anketi doldurarak ve/veya RT’leyerek destek olabilir misiniz? Şimdiden çok teşekkürler! koc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n…

SOMIs quickly started the new term and participated in the "Self-Knowing-Others" Workshop in Brussels! Our undergraduate student, Cem Karbuz, presented a poster titled "Anxiety and Social Influence: The Role of Metacognition." Congrats!

Zoom videolu konferans platformu kullanma alışkanlıklarını incelediğimiz anketi doldurarak bilime destek olabilirsiniz! koc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n…

Zoom videolu konferans uygulamasını aktif olarak kullanan, 18 yaş üzeri katılımcılara ihtiyacımız var. 5 dakika süren anketimize katılarak bize destek olmak ister misiniz? koc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n…

Sizi laboratuvarımızda yürütülen bir çalışma kapsamında Zoom Yorgunluk Ölçeği'nin Türkçe'ye uyarlandığı çalışmaya davet ediyoruz. Anketi doldurmak yaklaşık 5 dakika sürüyor. Anadiliniz Türkçe ise katılım sağlayabilirsiniz! koc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n…

Aslı ve Dilay ile birlikte, çocuğa yöneltilen dilin erken yaşta dil edinimine katkısını farklı gruplarda inceleyerek yazdığımız bir bölümün de olduğu “Sosyal Zihin” kitabı yayınladı! @AsliErciyes @DilayKaradoller