Vezir Aktas

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Communication and Behavioral Sciences , School of Education and Communication
Associate Professor of Social Psychology
Presentation Publications

Research

Vezir Aktas trained at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, and gained his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees from its Faculty of Letters, Department of Psychology. His research interests mainly focus on two fields: aggression and altruism. However, social representations, attribution, stereotyping, inter-group relations and inter-group
conflicts are also of interest.

Aktas’ doctoral thesis tested Bernard Weiner’s Judgement of
Responsibility Model in a Turkish context of prosocial and antisocial behaviours.

Biography

Since Aktas gained his PhD, he has served 4 years as Head of Department at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, administrating and teaching several of the main fields of psychology including research methods and statistics.

In 2011 Aktas started working at Jönköping University and since 2014 he holds a position as Assistant Professor of Social Psychology. He is assigned to the research programme Lifelong Learning and is thereby also tied to the Human Resource Management Program and non-programme courses in psychology. He teaches general psychology, social psychology, political psychology, research methods and statistics.