Multiple Conflicting Identities: Identity Integration

Koc, Y., Sahin, H., Garner, A., & Anderson. J. R. (2022). Societal acceptance increases Muslim-gay identity integration for highly religious individuals… but only when the ingroup status is stable. Self and Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1927821

Manzi, C., Koc, Y., Benet-Martinez, V., & Reverberi, E. (2022). Identity Integration matters: Working from home parents during the COVID-19 health emergency. Self and Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.2004217

Anderson, J., Kiernan, E., & Koc, Y. (2022). The protective role of identity integration against internalised sexual prejudice for religious gay men. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000452

Koc, Y., Sahin, H., Garner, A., & Anderson. J. R. (2021). Societal acceptance increases Muslim-gay identity integration for highly religious individuals… but only when the ingroup status is stable. Self and Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1927821

Mitha, K., Ali, S., & Koc, Y. (2021). Challenges to intersectional identity integration amongst sexual minority British Muslim South Asian men. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2527

Anderson, J., & Koc, Y. (2020). Identity integration as a protective factor against guilt and shame for religious men who have sex with men. Journal of Sex Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2020.1767026

Koc, Y., & Vignoles, V. (2018). Global identification helps reduce identity conflict among Turkish gay men. Psychology and Sexuality, 9, 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2018.1496134

Koc, Y., & Vignoles, V. (2016). Global identification predicts gay-male identity integration among gay men in Turkey. British Journal of Social Psychology, 55, 643-661. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12160

Experiences of the Disadvantaged Groups

*Akkurt, B., Coymak, A., & Koc, Y. (2022). Re-constructing the meaning of aid through the politicisation of communities in a welfare state: The psychological responses to the governmental aid plans against Covid-19 in Turkey. In E. O’Dwyer & L. G. Silva Souza (Eds.), Psychosocial perspectives on community responses to Covid-19: Networks of Trust and Social Change.

Coskan, C., Baysu, G., & Koc, Y. (2022). Routes to collective action among opposition voters: Testing efficacy, anger, and injustice in Turkey’s repeated elections. In H. Cakal & S. Husnu (Eds.), Examining Complex Intergroup Relations: Through the Lens of Turkey.

Koc, Y., Akkurt, B., Aksu, A., Dogan, Z., Sengul, D., & Anderson, J. (2022). Missing the good old days: Investigating outgroup attitudes through collective nostalgia and global identification. In H. Cakal & S. Husnu (Eds.), Examining Complex Intergroup Relations: Through the Lens of Turkey.

Salvati, M. & Koc, Y. (2022). Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2875

Koc. Y. (in press). Lack of ordinary privileges in a gay men’s life: Navigating through privileged systems. In E. Rodríguez-Dorans & J. Holmes (Eds.), The Everyday Lives of Gay Men: Autoethnographies of the Ordinary. Routledge.

Bagci, S. C., Verkuyten, M., & Koc, Y., Turnuklu, A., Piyale, Z. E., & Bekmezci, E. (2020). Being tolerated and being discriminated against: Links to well-being through threatened social identity needs. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2699

Bourguignon, D., Teixeira, C. P., Koc, Y., Outten, R., Faniko, K., & Schmitt, M. (2020). On the protective role of identification with a stigmatized identity: Promoting engagement and discouraging disengagement coping strategies. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2703

Anderson, J. R., Campbell, M., & Koc, Y., (2020). A qualitative exploration of the impact of the marriage equality debate on same-sex attracted Australians. Australian Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/ap.12473

Hinton, J., Anderson, J. R., & Koc, Y. (2019). Exploring the relationship between gay men’s self- and meta-stereotype endorsement with well-being and self-worth. Psychology and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419892019.1577013

Sheik, M., Koc, Y., & Anderson, J. R. (2019). A qualitative exploration of tertiary education experiences of refugee and asylum seekers in Australia. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk. https://doi.org/10.1080/10824669.2019.1657867

Anderson, J., Holland, E., Koc, Y., & Haslam, N. (2018). iObjectify: Exploring self- and other- objectification processes on Grindr, a platform for men who have sex with men. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 600-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2350

Anderson, J., Guan, Y., & Koc, Y. (2016). The academic adjustment scale: Measuring the adjustment of permanent resident or sojourner students. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 54, 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2016.07.006

Koc, Y. (2016). Grindr as a participant recruitment tool for research with men who have sex with men. International Psychology Bulletin, 20(4), 27-31. HERE to DOWNLOAD.

Perceptions of Minoritized Groups

*Weitz, B. M., & Koc, Y. (2022). Examining the role of status on the perceptions of gay disparaging humour using relational models. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03712-9

Barkema, W., & Koc, Y. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to contact between asylum seekers and their Dutch neighbours. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12252

Hinton, J. D. X., De la Piedad Garcia, X, Kauffman, L., M., Koc, Y., & Anderson, J. R. (2021). Understanding the role of identity centrality within the LGBTIQ+ population: A systematic and meta-analytic review. Journal of Sex Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1967849

Hazel, C. M., Koc, Y., O’Brien, S., Fielding-Smith, S., Hayward, M. (2021). Enhancing mental health awareness in emergency services (the ENHANcE I project): A cross-sectional survey on mental health stigma amongst emergency services staff. BJPsych Open. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.37

Moor, L., Kapelles, T., Koc, Y., & Anderson, J. R., (2019). Predicting explicit and implicit attitudes toward gay men using the dual process model of prejudice and dark tetrad. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.029

Van Assche, J., Koc, Y., & Roets, A., (2019). Religion or ideology? On the origin of sexism. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 191-197. https://doi.org/1016/j.paid.2018.11.016

Koc, Y., & Anderson, K. (2018). Social distance toward Syrian refugees: The role of intergroup anxiety in facilitating positive relations. Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12299

Anderson, J., Koc, Y., & Falomir-Pichastor, J. M., (2018). The English version of the Attitudes towards Homosexuality Scale. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 77, 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000210

Anderson, J., & Koc, Y. (2015). Exploring implicit and explicit antigay attitudes in Muslim and Atheist samples. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 687-701. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2126

New Masculinities

Eslen-Ziya, H., & Koc, Y. (2016). Being a gay man in Turkey: Internalised sexual prejudice as a function of prevalent hegemonic masculinity perceptions. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 18, 799-811. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2015.1133846

Culture and Organizations

Koc, Y., Gulseren, D., & Lyubykh, Z. (2021). Masculinity contest culture reduces organizational citizenship behaviors through decreased organizational identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000351

Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Koc, Y., Lun, V. M. C., Papastylianou, D., Grigoryan, L., … Chobthamkit, P. (2021). Is an emphasis on dignity, honor and face more an attribute of individuals or of cultural groups? Cross-Cultural Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397120979571

Sunar, D., Cesur, S., Piyale, Z. E., Tepe, B., Biten. A. F., Hill, C., & Koc, Y. (2021). People respond with different moral emotions to violations in different relational models: A cross-cultural comparison. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000736

Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Al-Selim, H., Lun, V. M. C., Koc, Y. Gul, P., … Chobthamkit, P. (2020). Sex differences in self-construal and in depression: Predictors of cross-national variation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120939655

Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M., Blount, J., Koc, Y., Harb, C., Torres, C., ... Rizwan, M. (2017). Culture as perceived context: An exploration of the distinction between dignity, face and honor cultures. Acta de Investigacion Psicologica, 7, 2568-2576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2017.03.001