Education and Employment

Academic Employement

2022 - current | Postdoctoral researcher at the psychology department of University of Amsterdam

2017 - 2022 | Graduate student in social psychology at Tilburg University

2014 - 2017 | Teaching assistant during my research master at Bogazici University

2013 - 2014 | Project assistant at TOBB University of Economics and Technology

2009 - 2010 | Student assistant at Middle East Technical University Library

Education

2017 - 2023 | PhD in Social Psychology at Tilburg University

2014 - 2017 | MA in Cognitive Psychology at Bogazici University

2009 - 2014 | BSc in Psychology at Middle East Technical University

Other education

2021 | EASP Summer School on Social Cognition

Grants & Awards

2023 | Small Research Grant by A Sustainable Future initiative (ASF), financed by the faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (received by Moore, H. L. & Meral, E. O.)

2022 | Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Graduate Registration Stipend

2021 | International Registration Award for the 2021 SPSP convention

2020 | EASP Seedcorn Summer School Grant (received by the research group: Valmori, A., Meral, E. O., Hale, ML., under the supervision of Rusconi, P., Brambilla, M.)

2019 | Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, travel award

2014 | Graduated in the High Honor Roll from my bachelors program at METU

Research

Preprints

Meral, E. O., Rosenbusch, H., Kip, A., Ren, D., van Dijk, E., & van Beest, I. (2022). Social Ball: An immersive research paradigm to study social ostracism Preprint https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v8kwx

Publications

Meral, E. O. (2023). Talking about belonging: Whether, why, and how people talk about social exlcusion. Doctoral dissertation. link, pdf

Meral, E. O., van Beest, I., Karaduman, C. (2023). Raising awareness about social exclusion in schools through experiential learning. Social Psychology of Education, 26, 367-381 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09746-y. preprint, pdf, post print

Meral, E. O., Vranjes, I., van Osch, Y., Ren, D. , van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (2023). Intent, intensity, and ambiguity: Appraisals of workplace ostracism and coping responses. Aggressive Behavior, 49, 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22060 pdf

Jaeger, B.* & Meral, E. O.,* (2022). Who can be fooled? Modeling perceptions of gullibility from facial appearance.Social Cognition. 40(2), 127-149, https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2022.40.2.127. preprint post print *equal contributions

Meral, E. O., van Osch, Y. ,Ren, D. , van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (2021). The anticipated social cost of disclosing a rejection experience. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(7), 1181-1197, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2807. pdf

Saribay, S. A., Biten, A. F., Meral, E. O., Aldan, P., Třebický, V., & Kleisner, K. (2018). The Bogazici face database: Standardized photographs of Turkish faces with supporting materials. PloS one, 13(2), e0192018. pdf

Conference Presentations

Meral, E. O., van der Toorn, J., Moss-Racusin, C. A. (June, 2023). More biased yet more informed: Perceptions of lesbian and gay “me-searchers.” Talk presented at the The LGBTQI+ Studies PreConference at the 19th General Meeting of The European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Kraków, Poland.

Meral, E. O., Ren, D. , van Osch, Y., van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (June, 2022). Interpersonal communication: An overlooked response in social exclusion research. Talk presented at the ASPO summer event (Associatie van Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers). Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Meral, E. O., van Osch, Y. ,Ren, D. , van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (December, 2019). Social sharing of rejection: Targets perceive talking about rejection as a costly undertaking. Talk presented at the symposium on ”Inclusion and exclusion: Many facets of the need to belong” at the annual ASPO conference (Associatie van Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers). Wageningen, The Netherlands. (Symposium co-chair.)

Meral, E., O., Ren, D. , van Osch, Y., van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (December, 2018). Reluctant communication of social exclusion. Talk presented at the symposium on ”Inclusion and exclusion: How the need to belong shapes social life” at the annual ASPO conference (Associatie van Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (Symposium co-chair.)

Meral, E. O., Saribay, A., Ayhan, I., Dotsch, R. (December, 2017). Mental representations of gay men: The role of willingness to contact and disgust sensitivity. Talk presented at the symposium on ”Social Face Perception” at the annual ASPO conference (Associatie van Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Work based on the master’s thesis supervised by Adil Saribay at Bogazici University (TR))

Poster Presentations

Meral, E. O., Rosenbusch, H., Kip, A., Ren, D., van Dijk, E., & van Beest, I. (July, 2023). Social Ball: An immersive research paradigm to study social ostracism. Poster presentation at the 19th General Meeting of The European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Kraków, Poland.

Meral, E. O., Vranjes, I., van Osch, Y., Ren, D. , van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (February, 2022). Intent, intensity, and ambiguity: Appraisals of workplace ostracism and coping responses. Poster presentation at the annual SPSP Convention (Society for Personality and Social Psychology).

Meral, E. O., Ren, D. , van Osch, Y., van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (February, 2021). Gaming emotions after social exclusion. Poster presentation at the annual SPSP Convention (Society for Personality and Social Psychology). Virtual Convention.

Meral, E. O., van Osch, Y. ,Ren, D. , van Dijk, E., van Beest, I. (July, 2020). Talking about rejection is costly. Poster presentation at the General Meeting of EASP (European Association of Social Psychology). Krakow, Poland. (Meeting canceled due to Covid-19 )

Meral, E. O., Abacioglu, C., Gunaydin, G., & Selcuk, E. (July, 2017). Width or Weight? Facial adiposity accounts for width-to-height ratio’s association with trustworthiness but not aggression. Poster presentation at the 18th General Meeting of The European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Granada, Spain.

Meral, E. O., Yildirim, I., & Boduroglu, A. (November, 2016) Are individual and mean identity representations immune to changes in emotional expressions? Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of Object Perception, Attention and Memory (OPAM), Boston, MA.