Research

Below you can find research areas and publications. Open-access articles are linked.


Stigma and Intergroup Relationships

Ikizer, E. G., Fischer, R., Kunst, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (2024). Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-groups: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Ikizer, E. G. & Dovidio, J. F. (2024). Affirmative Action. Oxford Bibliographies. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0324

Levy, A., Galinsky, A., Nguyen, C. Q., Saguy, T., Ikizer, E. G., & Dovidio, J. (2023). Ingroup love, outgroup hate, and the gateway group effect: Comparing the direct and indirect impact of dual versus single identification. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287631

Dovidio, J. F., Ikizer, E. G., Kunst, J. R., & Levy, A. (2020). Common identity and humanity. In Jetten, J., Reicher, S. D., Haslam, S. A., Cruwys, T. (Ed.s), Together Apart: The Psychology of Covid-19, London: Sage Publications. 

Dovidio, J. F. & Ikizer, E. G. (2019). Discrimination. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies of Social Psychology, New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0233

Ikizer, E.G. (2017). Perceptions of nonnative accented speakers. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Ikizer, E. G., & Ramirez-Esparza, N., Quinn, D. M. (2017). Culture and Concealable Stigmatized Identities: Examining Anticipated Stigma in the United States and Turkey. Stigma and Health, doi: 10.1037/sah0000082


Unintended Consequences of Social Psychological Interventions

Blanton, H. & Ikizer, E. G. (2019). Elegant science narratives and unintended influences: An agenda for the science of science communication. Social Issues and Policy Review. doi: 10.1111/sipr.12055

Blanton, H., & Ikizer, E. G. (2018). The Bullet Point Bias: How Diluted Science Communications Can Impede Social Progress. In J. T. Crawford. & L. Jussim (Eds), The Politics of Social Psychology (168-190). New York: Routledge.

Ikizer, E. G., Blanton, H. (2016). Media Coverage of “Wise” Interventions Can Reduce Concern for the Disadvantaged. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22 (2), 135-147. doi: 10.1037/xap0000076


Culture and Language

Bailey, A. H., Dembroff, R., Wodak, D., Ikizer, E. G., Cimpian, A. (2024). People’s beliefs about pronouns reflect both the language they speak and their ideologies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 

Ramírez-Esparza, N., García-Sierra, A., Ikizer, E.G., Rodríguez-Arauz, G., & Fernández-Gómez, M. (2019). No laughing matter: Latinas’ high quality of conversations relate to behavioral laughter. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214117

Ikizer, E. G., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & Boyd, R. (2018). Tell your story: Text analyses of tweets about sexual harassment experiences of women in Turkey. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. doi: 10.1007/s13178-018-0358-5

Rodríguez-Arauz, G., Ramírez-Esparza, N., García-Sierra, A., Ikizer, E. G., Fernández-Gómez, M. (2018). You go before me please: Behavioral politeness and interdependent self-markers of Sympatía in Latinas. Journal of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000232

Ikizer, E. G., & Ramírez-Esparza, N. (2017). Social flexibility of bilinguals compared with monolinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/S1366728917000414