Dr. Yasin Koc, Lab Director
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology
Ayca Aksu
Bastian Moritz Weitz
Denizhan Sengul
Stefano Ciaffoni
Sümeyra Bengisu Akkurt
Wendelien Barkema
Zeynep Dogan
Erasmus+ Trainee
Erasmus+ Trainee
Erasmus+ Trainee
Master Student
Erasmus+ Trainee
Bachelor Thesis Student
Bachelor Thesis Student
The Team
Jordan Hinton
PhD Student at Australian Catholic University
Jennifer Koning
Master Student
Pelin Su Safak
Research Intern
Ece Aleyna Demirgüneş
Research Intern
Dr Joel Anderson, Primary Collaborator
(Now PhD Student at University of Bologna)
(Now MA Student at Kadir Has University)
Joel Anderson and Yasin Koc first met in the cold accommodation of the IACCP Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2012 when Joel was an early PhD student and Yasin had just finished his bachelor and looking for PhDs. They designed their first study in a Kurdish restaurant in Cape Town on the effect of language on cognition, coded their first experiment while waiting at the airport (which pretty much defines their old "messy" way of working), and they went to several conferences across the world just for science, not for fun at all. Since then, despite the time difference between Europe and Melbourne, they worked together seamlessly, published several papers, received grants, and continue to jointly supervise students. Somehow, their mind works very similarly. A few times, when one of them told the other a cool research idea and the design, the other one replied "I have run that study already!" This has made things easier to progress. And finally, they have met a number of brilliant students on the way - which helped them achieve great things. In other words, Joel Anderson is at the core of Koc Lab and is the driving force behind this collaborative effort.
(Now Predoc at Stanford University)
(Now MA student at Bournemouth University)
(Now MA student at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
(Now MA student at Utrecht. University)
(Now MA student at Padua University)
(Now MA student at Padua University)
Research Intern & Lab Manager
Ugur C. Ozkusen
ReMA Thesis Student
Helin Sahin
Master Student
Deike Menken
Master Student
Mees Kok
Master Student
Denise Chin
