Particulars

Ipek Guvensoy is a social psychologist with a specific focus on intergroup contact, prejudice, and collective action. She got her first degree in Psychology from Uskudar University in 2019. During her undergraduate studies, she went on an overseas internship in Northern Ireland, Belfast. As a visiting researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, she studied intergroup contact under the supervision of Prof. Rhiannon Turner. After that, she received her master’s degree at Koc University in the department of Social/Organizational Psychology in 2021. Ipek completed her doctoral studies at Sabanci University under the supervision of Prof. Cigdem Bagci. During her doctoral studies she also went on two overseas internships, one in Lisbon, Portugal and one in Barcelona, Spain. As a visiting researcher at ISCTE, she studied all-inclusive identities and collective action with Rita Guerra and at University Pompeu Fabra, multiple categorizations and social perception under the supervision of Gert Cornelissen. Ipek is a part of Groupsy Lab and actively executes  projects. Her research appeared in the journal of European Review of Social Psychology and Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Research Interests

Since 2018, she has experimentally worked on various forms of intergroup contact including electronic contact, imagined contact, mass-mediated contact and direct contact. Ipek has conducted research on various intergroup contexts including Democrats and Republicans in the US, Turks-Kurds and Blacks-Whites, Catholics-Protestants in Northern Ireland, meat-eaters – and vegan/vegetarians and arbitrary-based groups. Ipek’s doctoral dissertation project looked at the effects of intergroup contact on meta-perception accuracy (e.g., meta-attitude accuracy) which integrated social cognition and intergroup relationships. Besides her doctoral dissertation project, she dedicated herself to improving theoretical frameworks in collective action research, particularly an overlooked construct in the overall collective action literature, anti-minority collective action. She is also interested in social perception and multiple social categorization processes in which she plans to make grant applications. Ipek specialized in close relationships specifically in ideal-partner preferences and marital decision during her master’s studies and did numerous ad-hoc reviews in this research area.