Fantastic news to start the w-end. Team member Halime Unver-Aba's paper with Huseyin Cakal and @lindatropp has just been accepted for publication at the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Sirlopú, Huseyin Cakal, Halime Unver-Aba, Salas & Anja Eller investigate the effects of intergroup contact and common ingroup identity on majority group members' motivation to support social change, with regard to their effect on solidarity with minority groups link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

lab members Huseyin Cakal and Halime Unver-Aba s chapter in Transitioning to Peace, Promoting Global Social Justice and Non-violence edited by Wilson López López Laura K Taylor 💙💛 is now out

Wonderful news to start the year. Lab leader Huseyin Cakal has been awarded a £60,000 British Council grant to develop a research network on mental health among Syrian Refugees in Turkey.

Over the moon with this! First ever glimpse of our forthcoming book "Examining Complex Intergroup Relations Through the Lens of Turkey" co-edited with with my wonderful colleague Shenel Husnu. The expected publication date is September 2022. tinyurl.com/yuk6vds6

We are looking for colleagues to participate in our workshop to create Mental Health Research for Syrian Refugees as part of our British Council funded grant. Please do put in an application and help spread the word.

Our lab's is finally up an running. It is extremely satisfying to see that we are growing and incorporating new members. Currently, InteRPol is made of 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate @Cloclopineda , 3 External Members Zafer Özkan Meltem Güler, and our alumni Halime Unver-Aba

It never gets old! "The best way to find manuscript typos is to click submit" Shit Academics Say. And I just did that Saeed Keshavarzi Halime Unver-Aba

New paper led by our lab manager Halime Unver-Aba is now out

New paper on secondary transfer effect of contact led by Halime Unver-Aba and contributed by Zafer Özkan Büşra Kızık Ertuğrul Gazi Eraslan

Sosyal psikolojide kolektif eylem nedir, neden kolektif eylemlere katılırız, TR'de ve dünyada örnekleri nelerdir gibi soruların cevaplarını verdiğimiz Zafer Özkan önderliğinde, InteR-Pol Lab'den çıkan son makalemiz Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi'de yayınlandı: nesnedergisi.com/makale/pdf/164…

At the ⁦Mhrtaskforce⁩ joint launch event and workshop at ⁦İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi⁩ discussing several issues on forced migration and mental health of refugees. ⁦Doç. Dr. Gökçe Ok⁩ ⁦HÜGÖÇ⁩ ⁦Huseyin Cakal⁩ ⁦Ceren Acarturk⁩

We have delegates from all ages (including babies) and species 🥰Mhrtaskforce

New paper with Saeed Keshavarzi Ali Halime Unver-Aba and Golnoosh Dakhil-Abbasi : "Mental Health and Intentions to Quit among Nurses in Iran: A Social Identity Approach” just accepted for Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

New paper with Saeed Keshavarzi Ali, Halime Unver-Aba is out: Identifying as a decreases depressive symptoms via negative emotions (moderated bu perceived risk) and intentions to quit via positive emotions among Iranian nurses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our symposium (with Halime Unver-Aba Büşra Kızık Ertuğrul Gazi Eraslan, and discussant Huseyin Cakal ) 'Host-Migrant Relations and Acceptance of Immigrants in Novel Contexts: An Intergroup Contact Approach' has been accepted for easp2023krk Looking forward to it!

It was delightful to present our symposium at easp2023krk Thanks to all those attended and Huseyin Cakal for the contribution! We received valuable feedback for our studies.

Amazing symposium with amazing people at easp2023krk! Thanks to all who were there for listening, InteR-Pol Lab lab members, lovely collaborators, and my university Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi.

New #OpenAccess #EJSP paper: "The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus" by Halime Ünver-Aba and Huseyin Cakal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…