Duygu Dincer

Duygu Dincer is an assistant professor of counseling psychology at Istanbul Aydin University. She has received her PhD in counseling psychology from Marmara University in 2017. She holds three MA degrees in the areas of national and international security strategies, psychology, and women studies, one each from Turkish War Colleges Command (2009), Mugla Sitki Kocman University (2013), and Istanbul University (2019). She worked as a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley and University of Leuven (KULeuven).

Current Work:

Dr. Dincer received fellowships from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) (2015) and The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) (2010). She was also awarded a short-term scholarship at Emory University to prepare a project on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' lives and works in 2017. She participated in the Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women (SPW) Mentor Match Program of American Psychological Association (APA) in 2018. Her areas of expertise broadly include self, social identity, self-conscious emotions, ambivalent sexism, gender, close relationships, and women's narratives.

As a women's studies researcher, Dr. Dincer's current research projects explorer: (a) sexist discrimination in women's lives, (b) sacrifice motives and behaviors of women in marital relationships, (c) diversity in emotions and the traditional patterns of gendered emotions experienced in the context of honor culture, (d) machismo and violence against women in Turkish cultural context, (e) women's online self-portrayals, self-objectification, and social media use, and (f) autobiographical writing processes of women writers from different countries.

Research Area Keyword(s):

Self, social identity, gender and sexism, gendered emotions, women's narratives