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Fields of interest: Social and cultural psychology—Self and identity—Independent vs. interdependent cultures—History, geopolitics, and globalisation—Collectivism vs. individualism—Socioeconomics—Achievement gaps—Social and political philosophy—Philosophy of culture
10/2019 – Present: PhD in Social and Cultural Psychology – Culture and Emotion Lab, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven, Belgium
09/2017 – 09/2019: MSc Educational Studies – KU Leuven, Belgium
CGPA: 80.00/100 (Magna Cum Laude)
09/2016 – 06/2017: BA Film – Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
CGPA: N/A (quit after freshman year)
09/2014 – 06/2016: MA Philosophy – KU Leuven, Belgium
CGPA: 74.00/100 (Cum Laude)
09/2011 – 06/2014: BA Philosophy – KU Leuven, Belgium
CGPA: 71.51/100 (Cum Laude)
09/2007 – 06/2011: BSc Mechanical Engineering – METU, Ankara, Turkey
CGPA: N/A (quit during senior year)
publications:
–Yilmaz, E., Phalet, K., & De Leersnyder, J. (2023). Putting cultural mismatch theory to the test: Applying a cultural fit approach to self-construal in educational settings to predict student outcomes. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
–Yilmaz, E., Phalet, K., & De Leersnyder, J. (2023). Acculturation of self-construals: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
–Yilmaz, E., Phalet, K., & De Leersnyder, J. (2023). Cultural differences in self-construal in the school context based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender and their intersections. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
conferences & symposia:
–Yilmaz, E., Phalet, K., & De Leersnyder, J. (2023, March 9-11). A Stringent Test of Cultural Mismatch Theory: Applying a Cultural Fit Approach to Self-Construal in Educational Settings to Predict Students’ Outcomes. In E. Yilmaz (Chair), Examination of Self-Construals, Socioeconomic Status and Teachers’ Class Consciousness Regarding Experiences of Cultural Mismatch at School. Symposium at the International Convention of Psychological Science, Brussels, Belgium.
–Yilmaz, E., Phalet, K., & De Leersnyder, J. (2023, February 23-25). A Stringent Test of Cultural Mismatch Theory: Applying a Cultural Fit Approach to Self-Construal in Educational Settings to Predict Students’ Outcomes. Data blitz presentation at the Advances in Cultural Psychology preconference, SPSP 2023 Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.
–Yilmaz, E., & Agirdag, O., (2022, June 29-July 2). The Ethnicity-SES Interaction and Achievement Gaps: Contextualising Differential Effects of SES Through Ethnic Capital. Presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) – European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) 2022 Small Group Meeting: “Society in the Classroom”, London School of Economics, London, UK.
–Yilmaz, E., & De Leersnyder, J. (2021, July 24-29). Cultural fit of self: Novel measures and evidence from Turkish Belgian & Chinese British minorities. In A. Jasini (Chair), To fit or not to fit? Novel approaches and empirical evidence on minorities’ socio-cultural fit. Symposium conducted at the international congress of the IACCP, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
–Yilmaz, E., & De Leersnyder, J. (2020, May 27). Cultural fit of self: Novel measures and evidence from Turkish Belgian & Chinese British minorities. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.