TürkçeWe are hosting Assoc. Prof. Kyle D. Killian from York University, Canada who will give a seminar on emotional intelligence on 19 June, 2008 at 15:00 in A229 (FEASS). The abstract of the talk is below.
Emotional intelligence (EI), a term popularized by Daniel Goleman (1995, 1998, 2001), is an intriguing, though elusive, construct. Mayer and Salovey (1990) defined EI as the capacities to perceive, understand, and manage emotions and to utilize information about emotions in an adaptive manner. Researchers have attempted to measure the construct in a variety of ways, often employing a “kitchen sink” approach, tapping numerous constructs that may or may not be directly related to a higher order EI construct. This study examined the psychometric characteristics of a new measure, the Emotional Self-Awareness Questionnaire (ESQ). Regarding incremental validity, the ESQ accounted for 23.5% of the variance in life satisfaction in a regression equation that factored in the Big Five Personality factors and social desirability. In another study, a regression procedure found that emotional self-awareness accounted for 17% of the variance of dyadic adjustment in couples after sexual satisfaction and social desirability had been entered into a regression equation. Issues of reliability and validity will be discussed, and thoughts regarding future research in this area will be presented.
Emre Ozgen, chair of Bilkent Psychology has been elected as the vice president of the Turkish Psychological Association. He will be at this post for two years. The assocation has many aims and objectives including ensuring standards in the education and practice of psychology. It has many publications including an ISI indexed journal " The Turkish Journal of Psychology".
We are hosting three seminars by a team of researchers from the Forensic Educational Sciences Department at the University of Amsterdam, led by Associate Professor Geert-Jan Stams on Tuesday June 10, 2008.
The seminars are on moral development in juvenile delinquency, cross-cultural differences in juvenile recidivism, moral judgement and delinquency.
On April 18, 2008, we co-hosted, together with our interdisciplinary group, Centre for Mind, Language and Culture (CMLC) a one day conference on mirror neurons. Speakers were:
Pierre Jacob (Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
Thomas Metzinger (Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
Guenther Knoblich (Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)
Natalie Sebanz (Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)
Mark Ashton Smith (Psychology, Bilkent)
For further information visit the CMLC website.
