Staff profile

Faruk is a PhD student in Social Psychology with a focus on the intersections of psychology and social justice. He is passionate about understanding the motivations that drive individuals to support disadvantaged outgroups through actions like donations and protesting. With a background in psychology, sociology, and political science, his research explores how basic needs of autonomy. competence and relatedness influence solidarity-based actions and how these actions are shaped by political and social contexts.

Supervisors

Associate Professor Maja Kutlaca

Assistant Professor Chuma Owuamalam

• Allyship
• Collective action
• Activism
• Social change
• Self-determination
• Pro-environmental behaviors
• Social and temporal discounting

Journal Article

• Your needs or mine? The role of allies' needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups' needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions
  
  Sağlamöz, A. F., Kutlaca, M., & Leite, A. C. (2025). Your needs or mine? The role of allies’ needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups’ needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(1), Article e12855. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12855
• Egalitarian norms can deflate identity-bias link in real-life groups
  
  Çoksan, S., & Sağlamöz, A. F. (2025). Egalitarian norms can deflate identity-bias link in real-life groups. PLOS One, 20(8), Article e0330484. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330484