Nazike Mert
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology,
- PhD, Psychological Sciences and Human Development, Cornell University
- MA, Cognitive Psychology, Bogazici University
- BSc, Psychology, Middle East Technical University

More About Nazike Mert
Areas of Expertise
- Cognitive Psychology
- Memory
Course Topics
- Memory in Everyday Life
- Cognitive Psychology
- Research Methods
- Senior Project
- Autobiographical memory
- Collective memory
- Future thinking
- Culture
- Wang, Q., & Mert, N. (2025). Collective future thinking at a time of geopolitical tension. Trends in Cognitive Science.
- Mert, N., & Wang, Q. (2025). Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage. Cognition, 256, 106052
- Wang, Q., Mert, N., & Tian, Y. (2024). Remembering the good and bad and the self and others in a culturally modulated self-memory system. Memory, 35(6), 790-802.
- Mert, N., & Wang, Q. (2024). Valence and perceived control in personal and collective future thinking: The relation to psychological well-being. Cognition and Emotion, 38(5), 675-690.
- Mert, N., Hou, Y., & Wang, Q. (2023). What lies ahead of us? Collective future thinking in Turkish, Chinese, and Americans. Memory & Cognition, 51(3), 773-790.
- Justus, T., Yates, C. M., Atalay, N. B., Mert, N., & Curtis, M. E. (2019). Remembering melodies from another culture: Turkish and American listeners demonstrate implicit knowledge of musical scales. Analytical Approaches to World Music, 7(1).
- Yates, C. M., Justus, T., Atalay, N. B., Mert, N., & Trehub, S. (2017). Effects of musical training and culture on meter perception. Psychology of Music, 45(2), 231-245.