Oya Serbest

Education

• M.A., Psychological Sciences with Specialization in Developmental Psychology, Boğaziçi University
• B.A., Psychology, Boğaziçi University

Research Area

Oya Serbest is a first-year Ph.D. student in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology Program under the supervision of Dr. Zoe Liberman. During her MA years, she worked as the lab manager of Baby and Child Development Laboratory at Boğaziçi University. 

Her main research interests are social categorization and intergroup attitudes. More specifically, she is interested in how multilingual environments influence children’s understanding of group boundaries. Another line of her research focuses on religious cognition and the development of biases based on religious identities.