Fatih Bayrak
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1728580 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fatih Bayrak |
| PRENOMES | Fatih |
| SOBRENOME | Bayrak |
| ASSINATURA | BAYRAK F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Başkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6350-6234 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Stable Worldviews or Context-Sensitive Systems? Longitudinal Evidence on the Development of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs Across Two Sociopolitical Contexts
Are epistemically suspect beliefs (ESBs)—including conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscientific beliefs—stable worldviews, or do they shift alongside changes in the sociopolitical context? Although often treated as enduring dispositions, little is known about their within-person development or sensitivity to sociopolitical conditions. We address this question using two five-wave panel studies conducted over 2 years in Türkiye ( N = 595–2,077) and…
Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in the assessments of political fake news
The literature emphasizes two theoretical frameworks to explain the psychological mechanisms underlying belief in political fake news: motivated vs. reflective reasoning. The motivated reasoning account asserts that individuals are predisposed to accept fake news aligned with their political identity, with reflection further entrenching such beliefs through an identity-protective function. Conversely, the reflective reasoning account argues that …
Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts
Belief in various types of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs (ESBs), such as conspiracy theories, paranormal phenomena, and pseudoscientific claims, tends to strongly correlate. However, the use of ESB scales in the literature, which often include phenomena frequently encountered in daily life with familiar content, challenges the clarity of inferences about this relationship. To address this issue, we developed a scale for Fictitious Epistemically S…
Can reflection mitigate Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs and hesitancy
OBJECTIVE DESIGN: Periods of social turmoil, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tend to amplify conspiracy beliefs, evidenced by increased vaccine hesitancy. Despite this trend, effective interventions targeting vaccine-related conspiracy beliefs remain scarce, partly due to underexplored cognitive processes. Three competing theoretical accounts offer differing predictions about the role of reflective thinking in supporting conspiracy beliefs: the Mo…
Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief
Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context
Despite the considerable attention it has received, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) remains open to criticisms regarding failure to conceptualize the moral domain. MFT was revised in response to these criticisms, along with its measurement tool, the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ-2). However, the validity of this revised theoretical structure and its explanatory power relative to existing alternatives, such as Morality as Cooperation Theory …
Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content
OBJECTIVE: Following the COVID-19 outbreak, authorities recommended preventive measures to reduce infection rates. However, adherence to calls varied between individuals and across cultures. To determine the characteristics of effective health communication, we investigated three key features: message source, content, and audience. METHODS: Using a pre-test and two experiments, we tested how message content (emphasizing personal or social benefit…
The roles of social norms and leadership in health communication in the context of Covid-19
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures
Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age
Since the digitally-mediated large-scale protests took place all over the world, the role of social identities in collective actions has become the center of academic attention. Some scholars have claimed that interpersonal or individual reasons have become more important than collective identifications in participating digitally-mediated collective actions. To answer the question that whether social identification has lost its centrality in coll…
A tale of two hashtags
During the campaign period of the 2018 Presidential Election in Turkey, there was a burst in the number of tweets posted by both pro‐ and anti‐government Twitter users. Both sides started their own hashtags and reached a total of 2 million tweets in only one day. We analyzed the content of 186,554 tweets from two opposing ideological camps to test the predictions of Moral Foundations Theory, which suggests that liberals and conservatives endorse …
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
The roles of social norms and leadership in health communication in the context of Covid-19
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
A tale of two hashtags
During the campaign period of the 2018 Presidential Election in Turkey, there was a burst in the number of tweets posted by both pro‐ and anti‐government Twitter users. Both sides started their own hashtags and reached a total of 2 million tweets in only one day. We analyzed the content of 186,554 tweets from two opposing ideological camps to test the predictions of Moral Foundations Theory, which suggests that liberals and conservatives endorse …
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures
Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age
Since the digitally-mediated large-scale protests took place all over the world, the role of social identities in collective actions has become the center of academic attention. Some scholars have claimed that interpersonal or individual reasons have become more important than collective identifications in participating digitally-mediated collective actions. To answer the question that whether social identification has lost its centrality in coll…
A tale of two hashtags
During the campaign period of the 2018 Presidential Election in Turkey, there was a burst in the number of tweets posted by both pro‐ and anti‐government Twitter users. Both sides started their own hashtags and reached a total of 2 million tweets in only one day. We analyzed the content of 186,554 tweets from two opposing ideological camps to test the predictions of Moral Foundations Theory, which suggests that liberals and conservatives endorse …
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
The roles of social norms and leadership in health communication in the context of Covid-19
Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context
Despite the considerable attention it has received, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) remains open to criticisms regarding failure to conceptualize the moral domain. MFT was revised in response to these criticisms, along with its measurement tool, the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ-2). However, the validity of this revised theoretical structure and its explanatory power relative to existing alternatives, such as Morality as Cooperation Theory …
Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content
OBJECTIVE: Following the COVID-19 outbreak, authorities recommended preventive measures to reduce infection rates. However, adherence to calls varied between individuals and across cultures. To determine the characteristics of effective health communication, we investigated three key features: message source, content, and audience. METHODS: Using a pre-test and two experiments, we tested how message content (emphasizing personal or social benefit…
Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in the assessments of political fake news
The literature emphasizes two theoretical frameworks to explain the psychological mechanisms underlying belief in political fake news: motivated vs. reflective reasoning. The motivated reasoning account asserts that individuals are predisposed to accept fake news aligned with their political identity, with reflection further entrenching such beliefs through an identity-protective function. Conversely, the reflective reasoning account argues that …
Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts
Belief in various types of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs (ESBs), such as conspiracy theories, paranormal phenomena, and pseudoscientific claims, tends to strongly correlate. However, the use of ESB scales in the literature, which often include phenomena frequently encountered in daily life with familiar content, challenges the clarity of inferences about this relationship. To address this issue, we developed a scale for Fictitious Epistemically S…
Can reflection mitigate Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs and hesitancy
OBJECTIVE DESIGN: Periods of social turmoil, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tend to amplify conspiracy beliefs, evidenced by increased vaccine hesitancy. Despite this trend, effective interventions targeting vaccine-related conspiracy beliefs remain scarce, partly due to underexplored cognitive processes. Three competing theoretical accounts offer differing predictions about the role of reflective thinking in supporting conspiracy beliefs: the Mo…
Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief
Stable Worldviews or Context-Sensitive Systems? Longitudinal Evidence on the Development of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs Across Two Sociopolitical Contexts
Are epistemically suspect beliefs (ESBs)—including conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscientific beliefs—stable worldviews, or do they shift alongside changes in the sociopolitical context? Although often treated as enduring dispositions, little is known about their within-person development or sensitivity to sociopolitical conditions. We address this question using two five-wave panel studies conducted over 2 years in Türkiye ( N = 595–2,077) and…
Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Turkish (4 obras) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (4 obras) · Law (3 obras)