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GrouPsy-Lab
A Sabanci University based social psychology lab.

About Us
The GrouPsy Lab, led by Prof. Dr. ÇiÄŸdem BaÄŸcı, is a social psychology research lab at Sabancı University. Our research interests include but are not limited to phenomena within intergroup relationships such as stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, intergroup contact, collective action; environmental behaviors, and human-robot interactions.
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Through cutting-edge research, our lab aims to deepen understanding of these critical social issues and contribute to the development of interventions that promote healthy cross-group communication and foster intergroup harmony.
Ongoing Projects
Moral Minorities Project
This is a three-year project with mixed methodology and aims to examine the attitudes towards different moral minorities such as veg*ns and environmentalists.
Humor Project
This research experimentally test the effect of being exposed to traditional vs. counter-traditional gender role jokes on perceived identity threat related to gender.