G. Tarcan Kumkale
My research expertise is in the area of attitudes and persuasion. In particular, I pursue applications related to health communication and behavior. Current problem domains include organ donation, cancer screening, and hand-hygiene compliance in medical settings. In all these problem domains, we are trying to uncover complex interactions among relevant personality attributes using decision trees and other segmentation methods-- with the ultimate goal of developing more appropriate strategies for intervention and message design.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Communication, Language
- Health Psychology
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Research Methods, Assessment
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Journal Articles:
- Albarracin, D., Kumkale, G. T., & Poyner-Del Vento, P. (2017). How people can become persuaded by weak messages presented by credible communicators: Not all sleeper effects are created equal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 171-180.
- Albarracín, D., Cohen, J. B., & Kumkale, G. T. (2003). When communications collide with recipients’ actions: Effects of post-message behavior on intentions to follow the message recommendation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 834-845.
- Albarracín, D., & Kumkale, G. T. (2003). Affect as information in persuasion: A model of affect identification and discounting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 453-469.
- Albarracín, D., Kumkale, G. T., & Johnson, B. T. (2004). Influences of social power and normative support on condom use decisions: A research synthesis. Aids Care, 16, 700-723.
- Albarracín, D., McNatt, P. S., Findley-Klein, C., Ho, R., Mitchell, A., & Kumkale, G. T. (2003). Persuasive communications to change actions: An analysis of behavioral and cognitive impact in HIV prevention. Health Psychology, 22, 166-177.
- Demir, B., & Kumkale, G. T. (2013). Individual differences in willingness to become an organ donor: A decision tree approach to reasoned action. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 63-69.
- 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.
- Sen, C. K. N. & Kumkale, G. T. (2015) Identifying women not attending mammogram screenings: A decision tree approach to mammogram compliance profiling. Journal of Health Psychology.
- Kumkale, G. T., & Albarracín, D. (2004). The sleeper effect in persuasion: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 143-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.130.1.143
- 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, 40, 1325–1356.
- Sarıal-Abi, G. Z., Gürhan-Canlı, Z., Kumkale, G. T., & Yoon, Y. (2016). Discretionary spending tendency under financial constraints: The role of self-concept clarity. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 33(3), 612-623.
- Sen, C. K. N., & Baruh, L., G. T. Kumkale. (2016). Beyond a paycheck: The influence of work on Turkish women’s cancer screening. Sex Roles, 75, 599-611.
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
G. Tarcan Kumkale
Department of Psychology
Ozyegin University
Cekmekoy
Istanbul
Turkey