Ongoing Projects
Funded Projects
Aktaş, B.E. (Principal Investigator), Batur, E. (Researcher). TÜBİTAK 1002-A Project, The Third Side of Fairness: The Impact of Socioeconomic Level-Based Group Belonging, Empathy, and Anger, Project No: 425K10, June 2026 - February 2027.
Bahçekapılı, H.G. (Principal Investigator), Düz, H.K (Researcher). TÜBİTAK 1002-A Project, A Comparison of "Moral Foundations" and "Morality as Cooperation" Approaches in the Perceptual Processing of Moral Words, Project No: 126K393, August 2026 - May 2027.
Other Projects
Examining Moral Decisions Based on Advice from Artifical Intelligence or a Human: The Mediating Role of Metacognition
Researchers: Emre Çelik, Hande Şenel, Dr. Büşra Eylem Aktaş
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Body Odor-Related Disgust Reactions
Researchers: Belinay Kör, Hatice Kübra Kahveci, Sedef Dur, Dr. Büşra Eylem Aktaş
Completed Projects
Aktaş, B.E. (Principal Investigator). TÜBİTAK Project, Does Cooperation Keep Children Away from Waste or Inequity: A Developmental Examination, 2024–2025.
Aktaş, B.E. (Project Advisor). TÜBİTAK Project, Fairness in Ultimatum and Dictator Games: Exploring the Impact of Partner's Anger Justifications and Actor's Analytical Thinking Tendencies, 2023–2024.
Aktaş, B.E. (Project Advisor). TÜBİTAK Project, Exploring the Impact of Waste Aversion on Resource Distribution in Children with Varied Socioeconomic Backgrounds, 2023–2024.
Aktaş, B.E. (Project Advisor). TÜBİTAK Project, Examining the Moderator Role of Belief in a Just World in the Relationship between Empathy and Volunteering Intentions (BA Student: Aymila Soyoren), 2022–2023.
Aktaş, B.E. (Principal Investigator). TÜBİTAK Project, Social Mindfulness in Childhood Period and Its Relationship with Parental Behaviors and Socio-Cognitive Skills, 2022–2023.
Selective Publications
Aktas, B. E., & Cesur, S. (2026). How social context modulates the roles of fairness, reciprocity, and empathy on advantageous inequity aversion. The Journal of General Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2026.2689112
Aktas, B. E., Ergiyen, T., & Yurtbakan, T. (2026). How economic threat shapes contact intentions toward refugees: The buffering role of religion-based superordinate identity and moral emotions. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102410
Aktas, B. E., Balcik, S. M., & Ozmen, S. A. (2025). Children aged 7–9 consider socio-economic status and waste avoidance in egalitarian preferences: Experimental evidence from Turkey. Social Development, 34(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.70028
Zeynalli, F., & Aktas, B. E. (2025). The fair and the furious: Interpersonal effects of moral anger in economic bargaining. Current Psychology, 44(21), 17274–17292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08399-2
Aktas, B. E., Salter, M. E., Yilmaz, A. N., & Eker, S. (2024). Empathy increases warmth toward Syrian and Afghans, but not Ukrainians: Experimental evidence from Türkiye. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 98, Article 101909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101909
Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G., & Harma, M. (2018). Different types of religiosity and lay intuitions about free will/determinism in Turkey. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 28(2), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2018.1425062
Bahçekapili, H. G., & Yilmaz, O. (2017). Is religion necessary for morality?. Religion, brain & behavior, 7(4), 279-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249924
Aktas, B., Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2017). Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: Different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(3), 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500005891
Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2016). Supernatural and secular monitors promote human cooperation only if they remind of punishment. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), 79-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.09.005
Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2015). Without God, everything is permitted? The reciprocal influence of religious and meta-ethical beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.003
Güney, S., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2010). Insanlarda Özgeci Isbirliginin Psikolojik ve Beyinsel Temelleri. Turk Psikoloji Yazilari, 13(25), 29.
All publications (Dr. Hasan Galip Bahçekapılı)
All publications (Dr. Büşra Eylem Aktaş)