Research
I am a social psychologist and in very broad terms I am interested in how we navigate negative interpersonal dynamics. My work centers around topics like social exclusion, social biases, and harmful employee behaviors in organizations.
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, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v8kwx. Preprint
Publications
Valmori, A., Meral, E. O., Hale, M. L., Rusconi, P., & Brambilla, M. (2023). On the influence of implicit race attitudes on explicit trustworthiness judgments: An investigation of the perceivers and targets’ race and gender intersection. Visual Cognition, 31(8), 584-598. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315800
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