Teaching
Undergraduate courses taught at Özyeğin University
PSY208: Research Methods II (Spring 2025/26)
PSY320: Parenting (Spring 2025/26)
PSY322: Cognitive Development (Fall 2025/26)
Undergraduate courses taught at Kadir Has University
MAN201: Statistics (Fall 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
PSY112: Developmental Psychology (Spring 2018/19)
PSY202: Research Methods in Psychology II (Spring 2019/20, 2020/21)
PSY324: Parenting: Science and Practice (Spring 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
PSY332: Selected Topics in Developmental Psychology
PSY407: Cognitive Development (Fall 2020/21, Spring 2018/19, 2021/22, 2022/23)
PSY481: Seminar in Psychology: Infant Cognition (Fall 2019/20)
KHAS112: Understanding Mathematics (statistics module) (Spring 2019/20)
Graduate courses taught at Özyeğin University
PSY601: Advanced Statistical Methods and Ethics (Fall 2025/26)
Graduate courses taught at Kadir Has University
PSY532: Advanced Selected Topics in Developmental Psychology II (Spring 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2023/24, 2024/25)
Workshops
“Digital Literacy for High School Students”, High School Teachers (December 2022)
“Technology and Family Relations”, Kadir Has Summer School of Psychology for High School Students (June 2022, July 2024)
“Children, Youth, Parents, and Technology”, Kadir Has Winter School of Psychology for Undergraduate Students (February 2022)
“Children, Youth, Parents, and Technology”, Kadir Has Winter School of Psychology for High School Students (January 2021)
“Language and Communication Development in Infants and Children”, Kadir Has Winter School of Psychology for Undergraduate Students (January 2020)
Mentoring
Mentor to university students who graduated from my former high school (2019, 2026)
Academic advisor for undergraduate students of psychology at KHAS (2020-2025)
Koç University Summer Internship Program (2019)
PhD Students
Nursena Koç
M.A. Students
2026, M.A., Demetsu Zelal Er Aykut, "The Immediate Effects of Short-Form Video Exposure on Inhibitory Control in College Students"
2026, M.A., Özce Sıvış, “Media Emotion Regulation and Task Persistence in Early Childhood”
2026, M.A., Gülnihal Başpınar, “The Influence of Joint Media Engagement and Interactivity of Use on Children’s Inhibitory Control Following Fantastical Media Use”
2025, M.A., Dilara Özalp, “The Role of Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Behaviors in Infant Exploration”
2023, M.A., Gizem Akel, “Young children's emotion regulation skills: The role of mothers' parenting stress and reactions to children's emotions”
2023, M.A., Nursena Koç, “From mind to mind: Understanding the role of mothers in the theory of mind development of children”
2023, M.A., Şüheda Nur Erdoğan, “Touchscreen use and its relation to attention development in young children”
2021, M.A., Ezgi Yıldız, “Children's referential communication skills: The role of early joint attention and caregivers' language input and feedback”2021 Ezgi Yıldız, “Children's referential communication skills: The role of early joint attention and caregivers' language input and feedback”
Current M.A. students: Asena Sayın, Sueda Buğur
Service
Associate Editor
Türk Psikoloji Yazıları (Turkish Psychological Articles) (From 2025 onwards)
Consulting Editor
Journal of Cognition and Development (July 2026 - Present)
Psychology Masters Program Coordinator
Kadir Has University, Department of Psychology (2023/24, 2024/25)
Erasmus and Exchange Programs Committee – Committee Member
Representative of the Psychology Department, Graduate School (July 2024-September 2025)
Member
International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) - Early Career Council (From November 2023 onwards)
Boğaziçi University Institutional Review Board for Research with Human Subjects, (September 2023-September 2025)
Gender Equality Committee, Kadir Has University, 2021, 2024
Ad hoc Journal Reviewer
Family Relations
Infancy
Developmental Science
Cognitive Development
Infant Behavior and Development
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Infant and Child Development
Human Development
Scientific Reports
Pediatrics
Frontiers in Psychology
Acta Psychologica
Current Psychology
Brain and Behavior
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
First Language
Lingua
BMJ Open
BMC Pediatrics
Heliyon
Royal Society Open Science
Psychology of Language and Communication
Studies in Psychology (Psikoloji Çalışmaları)
Turkish Journal of Psychology (Türk Psikoloji Dergisi)
Ad hoc Grant Reviewer
TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
Scientific Committee Member
5. Developmental Psychology Symposium (national), Kadir Has University, 2026
4. Developmental Psychology Symposium (national), 2024
Conference Reviewer
Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), 2024, 2025
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), 2019, 2023, 2025
International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), 2024
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2025
4. Developmental Psychology Symposium (national), 2024
Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDP-EPIROB), 2018
Organizing Committee Member
Özyeğin University, High School Research Project Competition (scheduled for 2027)
Özyeğin University, Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı Research Festival, 2026
Experimental-Cognitive Psychology Symposium, Kadir Has University, 2019
Thesis Award Jury Member
METU Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2026
Erasmus and Exchange Programs Committee – Committee Member
Representative of the Psychology Department, Graduate School, Kadir Has University (July 2024-September 2025)
Task Planning and Coordination for Graduate Students
Özyeğin University, Department of Psychology (2025/26)
Primary Contact
for PERGEL (Positive Youth Development) at Kadir Has University, 2024-2025
Volunteer Educator
Education Volunteers Foundation of Türkiye (Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı), 2014