Prof. Nebi SÜMER

Nebi Sümer is a professor of Psychology at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, in Istanbul, Turkey. He has two main research interests: one focuses on close relationships, especially attachment dynamics and parenting behaviors, from a cultural perspective. The other focuses on transportation safety and driver behavior. He has conducted large-scale studies on attachment and parenting behaviors, aberrant driver behaviors, hazard perception abilities of novice drivers, and the development of a psycho-technical driver evaluation system. He has thoroughly published scientific articles, chapters, and books in these areas and received funding from national and international agencies. He also runs research and has publications on the issues concerning personality assessment, the effects of unemployment, the teaching of psychology, and advanced statistics. He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University and spent a year as a Fulbright research scholar at Cornell University. He is a member of the Science Academy Society in Turkey and a senior scholar at the Istanbul Policy Center.

Prof. Anna SIEBEN

Anna Sieben is currently a professor of Cultural and Social Psychology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2024, she will become a professor of Social Psychology (with a focus on civil safety) at the Bergische University Wuppertal/Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. She completed her Diploma in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne and pursued an additional master’s degree at Goldsmith College, specializing in Gender and Culture. Her areas of expertise in teaching and research include parenting in Germany and Turkey, concepts of psychology in everyday life, collective behavior and action in the context of pedestrian dynamics, and cultural psychology. Sieben has been involved in several research projects, including “Cultural Transformation and Popular Scientific Adaptation of Psychological Knowledge by Parents in Turkey: A Qualitative Study” (2019-2023, funded by DFG), “CroMa: Crowd-Management in Traffic Infrastructure” (2018-2022, funded by BMBF), and “Cultural Spaces of Psychological Knowledge: Parent-Child-Relationships from the Perspective of German and Turkish Parents” (funded by Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR)).