Research Interests

Power and Status, Moral Psychology, Group Processes

Kesebir, S. (in press). The superorganism account of human sociality: How and when human groups are like beehives. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Steger, M. F., Oishi, S., & Kesebir, S. (in press). Is a life without meaning satisfying? The moderating role of the search for meaning in satisfaction with life. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Oishi, S., Kesebir, S. & Diener, E. (2011). Income inequality and happiness. Psychological Science, 22, 1095-1100.

Kesebir, S. & Oishi, S. (2010). A spontaneous self-reference effect in memory: Why some birthdays are harder to remember than others. Psychological Science, 21, 1525-1531.

Nosek, B. A., Graham, J., Lindner, N. M., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Hahn, C., Motyl, M., Joy-Gaba, J., Frazier, R. & Tenney, E. R. (2010). Cumulative and career-stage citation impact of social psychology programs and their members. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1283-1300. DOI: 10.1177/0146167210378111

Kesebir, S., Oishi, S., Spellman, B. (2010). The socio-ecological approach can turn variance among populations from a liability to an asset [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 96-97.

Kesebir, S., Graham, J. & Oishi, S. (2010). A theory of human needs should be human-centered, not animal-centered: A commentary on Kenrick et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 315-319.

Kesebir, S., Uttal, D. & Gardner, W. (2010). Socialization: Insights from social cognition. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 93-106.

Haidt, J. & Kesebir, S. (2010). Morality. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology (5th Edition) (pp.797-832). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Oishi, S., Kesebir, S. & Snyder, B. H. (2009). Sociology: A lost connection in social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13, 334-353.

Nosek, B. A., Smyth, F. L., Sriram, N., Lindner, N. M., Devos, T., Ayala, A., Bar-Anan, Y., Bergh, R., Cai, H., Gonsalkorale, K., Kesebir, S., Maliszewski, N., Neto, F., Olli, E., Park, J., Schnabel, K., Shiomura, K., Tulbure, B., Wiers, R. W., Somogyi, M., Akrami, N., Ekehammar, B., Vianello, M., Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2009). National differences in gender-science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 10593-10597.

Haidt, J., Seder, J. P., & Kesebir, S. (2008). Hive psychology, happiness, and public policy. The Journal of Legal Studies, 37, S133-S156. [Reprinted in E. A. Posner & C. R. Sunstein (Eds.), Law and Happiness (pp. 133-156), Chicago University Press, 2010]

Lun, J., Kesebir, S., & Oishi, S. (2008). On feeling understood and feeling well: The Role of interdependence. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1623-1628.

Haidt, J., Kesebir, S. (2007). In the forest of value: Why moral intuitions are different from other kinds. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch, & T. Betsch (Eds.), A new look on intuition in judgment and decision making (pp. 209-229). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Crane, B., Gjata, J., Kesebir, S., & Thomas-Hunt, M. C. (2011, August). Going global: managing nation culture status differences within heterogeneous teams. Talk presented at the annual meeting of Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX.

Kesebir, S. & Oishi, S. (2011, January). Optimal friendship networks are a function of network stability and crisis frequency. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Kesebir, S. (2010, July). What bee hives can teach us about human psychology and human organizations. Talk presented at Koç University.

Kesebir, S. & Haidt, J. (2010, January). Emotional synchrony as a group bonding mechanism. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Kesebir, S., Wang, L. & Haidt, J. (2009, February). How to become less judgmental: The effect of thinking about the judged person's circumstances. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Kesebir, S., Hincker, A. M., & Oishi, S. (2008, June). Cooperators are worse off being mobile. Poster presented at the Summer Institute on Social Cognition, Montréal, Canada.

Kesebir, S., Hincker, A. M., & Oishi, S. (2008, May). Cooperators are worse off being mobile. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Kesebir, S. & Haidt, J. (2008, January). Reverberation of positive affect in groups: Do positive emotions bind people together? Poster presented at the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Pre-Conference preceding the annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Kesebir, S. & Oishi, S. (2008, January). Remembering birthdays: A case of egocentric bias in temporal memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Kesebir, S. (2007, October). Group selection and human psychology. Presented to the Fall 2007 LIFE Academy, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor.Lun, J., Kesebir, S. & Oishi, S. (2007, May). Feelings of being understood enhance physical and psychological well-being. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Kesebir, S., Gardner, W., & Uttal, D. H. (2007, May). Implications of regulatory focus for parental cognitions. Poster presented at the meeting of LIFE Academy, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

Kesebir, S. & Oishi, S.(2007, January). How do emotions factor into well-being judgments: The role of avoidance and approach orientations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.

Kesebir, S., Harmon, K. J., Uttal, D. H. (2005, April). Play, symbolic development and number knowledge. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Kesebir, S., Hennerty, M., & Uttal, D. H. (2004, April). Effects of playing with concrete objects on symbolic understanding of numbers. Poster presented at the 18th biennial Conference on Human Development, Washington, DC.

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Psychology of Morality, Summer 2010 [see syllabus]

TA, Graduate Research Methods, Introduction to Social Psychology, Psychology of Thinking

Service

Ad hoc reviewer:
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Perspectives in Psychological Science, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emotion Review, Merrill Palmer Quarterly, Motivation and Emotion

Editor in-chief:
In-Mind Magazine

Academy of Management
Association for Psychological Science
International Association for Conflict Management
Society for Personality and Social Psychology