Ümit Akırmak

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I have a double major in Philosophy and Psychology from Boğaziçi University and earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive, Neuroscience, and Social Psychology from the University of South Florida. Since 2009, I have been a full-time faculty member in the Psychology Department at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Throughout my academic career, I have held administrative roles, including Vice-Chair (2015-2021) and Erasmus Coordinator (2009-2015; 2018-2021) of the Psychology Department. Additionally, I served on the board of the Turkish Psychological Association from 2010 to 2014. I was granted the title of Associate Professor in March 2022.

At the undergraduate level, I deliver courses on Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Learning, Experimental Methods, History of Psychology, Data Analysis (with SPSS and R), and Senior Thesis. Furthermore, I have taught Advanced Research Methods in the Clinical Psychology MA program and conducted seminars on applied cognitive psychology within the Organizational Psychology MA program. I have supervised numerous graduate students from both Clinical Psychology and Organizational Psychology programs.

My research expertise lies in the field of human memory. In my lab, we collect word association norms and employ them in various experimental tasks to investigate behavior and attitudes. Recently, my focus has shifted to exploring individual differences in cognitive and affective aspects of well-being and their connections to time orientation.