Bahar Tunçgenç

Biographic Data

ID2751269
NAMEBahar Tunçgenç
GIVEN NAMESBahar
FAMILY NAMETunçgenç
SIGNATURETUNÇGENÇ B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-1135-1004
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Growing Up with Parental Mental Illness and Post-Traumatic Growth

    Open AccessP Hodgkins, Bahar TunçgençARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2025

    Globally, it is estimated that 4–23% of children have at least one parent who experiences a mental illness. Whilst the negative effects of growing up with a parent with a mental illness (PWMI) are well documented, potential positive effects such as building resilience, independence or empathy are often overlooked (Kinsella et al., 1996). Adopting a post-traumatic growth (PTG) framework, this study examined the positive effects of growing up with …

  • Benefits of an online group dance program for adolescents' social bonding and wellbeing

    Open AccessBahar Tunçgenç, Emma‐Jane Greig et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2024

    INTRODUCTION: The Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing effects on mental health made it clearer than ever that social bonds are critical for survival, flourishing, and mental wellbeing. Experimental laboratory-based research with children and adults shows that activities involving movement alignment and joint action, such as dance, can facilitate social bonds. METHODS: This study examined whether an online group dance intervention positively affects…

  • Articles from and inspired by the fifth International Conference on Social Identity and Health

    Open AccessJuliet Ruth Helen Wakefield, Chris Stevenson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2024References: 19

    The 5th International Conference on Social Identity and Health (ICSIH 5) was hosted at Nottingham Trent University, UK on 23rd-24th June 2022. Taking place every two years, the aim of ICSIH is to showcase the latest research on the Social Identity Approach to Health (SIAH; Haslam et al., 2018) to an international audience. This new paradigm within Social Psychology, often referred to as the ‘Social Cure’, (e.g., Jetten et al., 2012), articulates …

  • The Synchrony-Prosociality Link Cannot Be Explained Away as Expectancy Effect

    Open AccessBahar Tunçgenç, Joshua Silberstein Bamford et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2023

    Moving in time to others, as is often observed in dance, music, sports and much of children’s play cross-culturally, is thought to make people feel and act more prosocially towards each other. In a recent paper, Atwood et al. (2022) argued that the inferential validity of this link found between synchronous behaviour and prosociality might be mainly due to “expectancy effects generated by a combination of (1) experimenter expectancy, leading to e…

  • Social alignment matters

    Open AccessBahar Tunçgenç, Martha Newson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    These findings provide an important counterpart to the idea that pandemic containment measures such as physical distancing negatively impacted wellbeing unequivocally. Despite the overall burden of the pandemic on psychosocial wellbeing, social alignment with others can still contribute to positive wellbeing. The pandemic has manifested our propensity to adapt to challenges, particularly highlighting how social alignment can forge resilience

  • Facing the pandemic with trust in science

    Open AccessJustin Sulik, Ophelia Deroy et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2021

    How essential is trust in science to prevent the spread of COVID-19? People who trust in science are reportedly more likely to comply with official guidelines, implying that higher levels of adherence could be achieved by improving trust in science. However, analysis of a global dataset ( n = 4341) suggests otherwise. Trust in science had a small, indirect effect on adherence to the rules. Nonetheless, it predicted people’s approval of prevention…

  • Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does

    Open AccessMartha Newson, Yi Zhao et al.ARTICLENew Media & Society2021Cited by: 6References: 12

    With restricted face-to-face interactions, COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing measures tested the capability of computer-mediated communication to foster social contact and wellbeing. In a multinational sample ( n = 6436), we investigated how different modes of contact related to wellbeing during the pandemic. Computer-mediated communication was more common than face-to-face, and its use was influenced by COVID-19 death rates, more so than state s…

  • Social influence matters

    Open AccessBahar Tunçgenç, Marwa El Zein et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Psychology2021Cited by: 3References: 42

    Why do we adopt new rules, such as social distancing? Although human sciences research stresses the key role of social influence in behaviour change, most COVID-19 campaigns emphasize the disease's medical threat. In a global data set (n = 6,675), we investigated how social influences predict people's adherence to distancing rules during the pandemic. Bayesian regression analyses controlling for stringency of local measures showed that people dis…

  • Play

    Open AccessBahar Tunçgenç, Megan JefferiesOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Play is a widespread activity that is integral to the daily lives of human children and the young of many other animal species. Play is often characterized by enjoyment, voluntary engagement, and the spontaneous and free occurrence of movements, though it can also take place in the form of structured, rule‐based games. This entry addresses two questions that have dominated the psychological‐anthropological study of play: What are the types of and…