Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (29 January 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a Turkish scientist and professor. She was a university professor since 1969 and received the

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in 1993.

Early life and education

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı was born in

Bursa Bursa () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of ...

, Turkey on 29 January 1940. In 1959, she completed high school at American College for Girls in

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before moving to the United States for her post-secondary studies. In the US, Kağıtçıbaşı completed a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

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in 1961 and a

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at the

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in 1967 specializing in

social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

Career

Kağıtçıbaşı began teaching at the

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

in 1969 before moving on to

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

in 1974. She taught at Boğaziçi until 1995 when she began working at

Koç University Koç University () is a private non-profit research university in Istanbul, Turkey. It started education in temporary buildings in İstinye in 1993, and moved to its current Rumelifeneri campus near Sarıyer in 2000. Koç University is ranked hi ...

. At Koç University, she was a social science dean from 1998 to 2001 and later became the university's gender studies director in 2010. As a social scientist, Kağıtçıbaşı participated in research focusing on determining the reasons why young adults want to start a family. Outside of her scientific career, Kağıtçıbaşı held various positions including vice president of the

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from 1996 to 2000 and the

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from 2004 to 2006. Kağıtçıbaşı authored the widely cited book ''Family and Human Development across Cultures: A View from the Other Side'' in 1996, which challenged culture-bound models of human development based on European-American psychological research while offering a

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perspective on human, social, and cultural development. A second volume ''Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications'', was published in 2007, which offered a family change theory of how modernization in non-Western societies impacts family structure''.'' Kağıtçıbaşı served as co-editor of the 1994 volume ''Individualism and Collectivism: Theory, Method, and Applications.''

Selected articles

* Kağıtçıbaşı, C. (1996). The autonomous-relational self. ''European Psychologist'', ''1''(3), 180–186. * Kağıtçıbaşı, C. (2005). Autonomy and relatedness in cultural context: Implications for self and family. ''Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology'', ''36''(4), 403–422. * Kağıtçıbaşı, C., & Berry, J. W. (1989). Cross-cultural psychology: Current research and trends. ''Annual Review of Psychology'', ''40''(1), 493–531.

Awards and honors

In 1993, Kağıtçıbaşı received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. Other awards include a fellowship at the

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and

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The insti ...

Death

Kağıtçıbaşı died on 2 March 2017.

References

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