Hello, I started a new blog and I plan to share my reflections in this space.

In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.

On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...

I often notice that my thoughts are a bit of a mess when I speak English or Spanish. People notice that I don’t follow the typical word order in Spanish and English. It’s difficult for me because, in my native language, Turkish, there is no strict syntax, as long as you don’t break certain clusters.

I was asking myself to what extent we understand the nature of prejudice many times. I have started reading the recent chapter written by Bodenhausen and Cheryan (2025). It fruitfully made me ask many questions. I hope to have the opportunity discuss it with future students.
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...

Hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening:

1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation

Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.

A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.

Shocking!

Is there a link between positive intergroup contact and meta-attitude accuracy? Yes - for both majority and minority groups! Have a look at our new paper led by the brilliant Ipek Guvensoy 🙂 doi.org/10.1177/1368... #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact