My current research focuses on attitudes and persuasion, delayed effects of persuasive messages, normative considerations in behavior change, meta-analytic review of behavior-change interventions, overspending, organ donation, and data mining.
Gülgöz, S., Kumkale, G. T., Aktunç, M. E., & Eskenazi, T. T. (2000). Designing learnable texts: The effectiveness of revisions based on a text-processing model. Document Design, 1, 103-114.
Handley, I. M., Albarracin, D., Brown, R. D., Li, H., Kumkale, E. C., & Kumkale, G. T. (2009). When the expectations from a message will not be realized: Naive theories can eliminate expectation-congruent judgments via correction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 4, 933-939.
Kumkale, G. T., Albarracín, D., & Seignourel, P. (June, 2010). The effects of source credibility in the presence or absence of prior attitudes: Implications for the design of persuasive communication campaigns. Journal of Applied and Social Psychology.
Other Publications:
Albarracín, D., Johnson, B. T., Zanna, M. P., & Kumkale, G. T. (2005). Attitudes: Introduction and scope. In D. Albarracín, B. T., Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (pp. 3-19). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cemalcilar, Z., & Kumkale, G. T. (2007). Time orientation. In W. A. Dariety (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social sciences (2nd Ed. pp.368-369). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference.
Kumkale, G. T. (2007). Guttman scaling. In W. A. Dariety (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social sciences (2nd Ed. p. 398-399). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference.
Kumkale, G. T. (2007). The sleeper effect in persuasion. In W. A. Dariety (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social sciences (2nd Ed. p. 550). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference.
Kumkale, G. T., & Albarracín, D. (2008). The sleeper effect in persuasion: An accessibility-diagnosticity perspective. Advances in Consumer Research, 34, 266-270.
Courses Taught:
Attitudes and Persuasion
Introduction to Psychology
Personality
Research Methods and Statistics
Social Psychology
Testing and Measurement
Attitudes and Persuasion
Introduction to Psychology
Personality
Research Methods and Statistics
Social Psychology
Testing and Measurement
G. Tarcan Kumkale Department of Psychology
Koc University
Rumelifeneri Yolu Sariyer
34450 Istanbul
Turkey
Phone: +90 212 338 1412
Fax: +90 212 338 3760
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