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Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2012
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences
History
Linguistics
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Ümit Atlamaz | Balkız Öztürk | Ergative as accusative case: evidence from Adıyaman Kurmanji |
M.A. |
| İsa Kerem Bayırlı | Meltem Kelepir Wood, Markus Pöchtrager | On suffixhood and verbalness: a Mirror Theoretic approach | M.A. |
| Süleyman Sabri Taşçı | Aslı Göksel | Phonological and morphological aspects of lexicalized fingerspelling in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) | M.A. |
Philosophy
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Özgür Aktok | Murat Baç, Claudia Bickmann | Ontoparadigms: a de-struction of social constructionism in the context of Heidegger's conception of truth |
Ph.D |
| Merve Rümeysa Tapınç | Stephen Voss, Gordon C. F. Bearn | Perceptual and intuitional experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson | M.A. |
| Alper Yavuz | İlhan İnan | On the rigidity of general terms | M.A. |
Psychology
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Esra Erdem | Ali İ. Tekcan | Metacognitive calibration in college students: the relationship between calibration, test performance, and empathic skills |
M.A. |
| Aysu Mutlutürk | Ayşecan Boduroğlu | Effects of spatial configurations on the resolution of spatial representations in working memory | M.A. |
| Irmak Olcaysoy Ökten | S. Adil Sarıbay | The effects of political ideology on interpersonal interaction: does exposure to opposing ideology lead to resource depletion? | M.A. |
| Didem Pehlivanoğlu | Ayşecan Boduroğlu | The role of self-referencing on feeling of knowing judgments | M.A. |
| Burcu Ünlütabak | İ. Ercan Alp | Developmental relations between Turkish preschool children's theory of mind skills and their ability to track character references in narrative discourse | M.A. |
Sociology
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Seda Aydın | Ayfer Bartu Candan | Gated communities and the “Middle Class” in Istanbul |
M.A. |
| Cemre Baytok | Biray Kolluoğlu | Political vigilance in court rooms: feminist interventions in the field of law | M.A. |
| Gamze Canlı | Biray Kolluoğlu | The student centered education and knowledge economy | M.A. |
| Can Evren | Ayfer Bartu Candan | Assessing the disabled, making ‘the State’ | M.A. |
Translation and Interpreting Studies
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Pelin Doğan | Jonathan Maurice Ross | The production and reception of titles for Hollywood film imports in Turkey |
M.A. |
Turkish Language and Literature
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Fatma Akman | Zeynep Sabuncu | Hikaye-i Zen Dost or Hikaye-i Mekr-i Zenan-i Acüz (Critical edition, textual analysis, glossary) |
M.A. |
| Bahadır Sürelli | Zehra Toska | Heft Peyker Mesnevis in Turkish literature and Hayâtî’s Heft Peyker | Ph.D |
Western Languages and Literatures
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Pelin Batu (English Literature) | Cevza Sevgen | The creation of the monstrous other through metamorphosis | Ph.D |
The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Economics
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Tülin Araz | Levent Yıldıran | Financial literacy and credit card arrears |
M.A. |
| İbrahim Demir | Murat Koyuncu | Revenue neutral tax reforms in a DSGE model with home production and infinitely lived agents | M.A. |
| Buse Ergün | Burçay Erus | An assessment of coping mechanisms with poverty in Turkey after the 2008 global crisis: A study based on Turkey Welfare Monitoring Survey | M.A. |
| Bernes Karaçay | Murat Yılmaz | A dynamic investment model under time-inconsistency | M.A. |
| Erdal Karahan | Murat Koyuncu, Ozan Hatipoğlu | The effects of capacity problem in an era of decreasing non-renewable resources | M.A. |
| Meltem Odabaş | Fikret Adaman | A theoretical and empirical analysis of shopping mall formation in Istanbul, Turkey | M.A. |
| Ezgi Özer | Levent Yıldıran | Consumer preferences in the Turkish credit card market | M.A. |
| Oğuz Öztunalı | Ceyhun Elgin | Shadow economy and environmental pollution | M.A. |
| Emekcan Yücel | Ceyhun Elgin | Essays on determinants and impacts of preference for leisure | M.A. |
Management
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Elif Akben Selçuk | Mine Uğurlu | Corporate diversification and firm value: evidence from emerging markets |
Ph.D |
| Ayşe Dilara Altıok Yılmaz | Mine Uğurlu | Financial and strategic overview of the banking system | Ph.D |
| Onuralp Armağan | Nur İrem Nuhoğlu | Factors affecting audit quality in an emerging market-Turkey: a focus on auditor characteristics in Istanbul Stock Exchange | Ph.D |
| Aslı Elif Aydın | Muzaffer Bodur, Cengiz Yılmaz | The influence of thinking style and mental construal on consistency of consumer preferences | Ph.D |
| Nihat Gümüş | Attila Odabaşı | Regulatory implications of 2007 financial crisis and the effect of financial regulation structures on the soundness of banking sector: a cross-country perspective | Ph.D |
| Mehmet Oğuz Karahan | Nesrin Okay Akman | Analysis of trading activity and liquidity in Istanbul Stock Exchange | Ph.D |
| Pınar Yıldırım | Muzaffer Bodur, Cengiz Yılmaz | Categorization flexibility and scheme incongruity effect on new product evaluations | Ph.D |
Political Science and International Relations
The Faculty of Education
Educational Sciences
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Hakan Ergin | Fatma Gök | An analysis of correctional education programs in Turkish prisons: perceptions of correctional educators and inmates | M.A. |
| Pınar Keskiner | Fatoş Erkman | The relationship between perceived parental acceptance and children’s psychological adjustment in the context of parental power and prestige in a Turkish youth sample | M.A. |
| Alev Nurkan | Bengü Börkan | Involvement of illiterate mothers in their children‟s education | M.A. |
| Aslıhan Zengin | Fatma Gök | Reasons of internally displaced Kurdish women for not participating in educational programs in PECs: a narrative analysis |
M.A |
Foreign Language Education
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Oya Özdemir | Gülcan Erçetin | Reading span tests as predictors of L2 reading comprehension: investigating differences in task design and assessment through behavioral and eye movement data |
Ph.D |
| Hande Serdar | Sumru Akcan | Exploring the interplay between a non-native English language teacher’s pedagogical beliefs, classroom practices and her students’ learning experiences regarding L2 grammar | Ph.D |
Primary Education
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Sakhavat Mammadov | Fatma Gök | The education of gifted K-8 students in Turkey: policy analysis and program evaluation |
M.A. |
The School of Applied Disciplines
International Trade
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Meltem Bilgehan | Nisan Selekler Gökşen, Özlem Yıldırım Ökten | A comparative analysis of corporate social responsibility practices of Turkish companies and companies with foreign ownership |
M.A. |
| Sinan Durmuşalioğlu | Emine Nur Günay | Sovereign debt distress in the developed and emerging countries | M.A. |
| Özge Memişoğlu | Emine Nur Günay | Knowledge-based economy and economic growth: empirical analysis of BRICST countries | M.A. |
Management Information Systems
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Mahmut Çavur | Meltem Özturan | Diffusion of GIS at municipalities in İstanbul | M.A. |
| Cansu Karaduman | Hande Kımıloğlu | Consumer attitudes toward and utilization of decision-making aids in the online environment | M.A. |
| Orhun Mustafa Kök | Nuri Başoğlu, Aslı Sencer | Adoption factors of electronic health record systems | M.A. |
| Osman Yücel | Meltem Özturan | Development of a data mining software of higher educational data | M.A. |
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
Cognitive Science
| Author | Advisor(s) | Title | M.A./Ph.D |
| Zeynep Barlas | Stephen Voss, Hasan Bahçekapılı | The interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes underlying pre-reflective and reflective sense of agency: an integrative approach | M.A. |
| Dorina Strori | Mine Nakipoğlu Demiralp, Esra Mungan | Acquisition of past tense in Albanian: implications for morphological processing and representation | M.A. |
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