Biography

M.S., Middle East Technical University, 2002

B.S., Middle East Technical University, 1999

Research Interests

Appraisal and control processes in intrusive thoughts, cognitive factors in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and crosscultural differences, role of culture in vulnerability factors and appraisal processes of the anxiety disorders and psychopathology.

Publications/Presentations

Yorulmaz, O., Karancı, A. N., & Tekok-Kılıç, A. (2006). What are the roles of responsibility and perfectionism in checking and cleaning compulsions? Journal of Anxiety Disroders, 20, 317-322.

Yorulmaz, O., Gençöz, T., & Woody, S. (2006). Cognitive factors in Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology: A cross-cultural investigation. Oral presentation in the Meeting of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Cognition Working Group, Chamberry, France.

Yorulmaz, O. Baştuğ, B., Karancı, A. N., Kısa, C., Cebeci, S., & Göka, E. (2006). Thought-action fusion in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Further examination in a Turkish clinical sample. Poster presentation in the 36^th European Congress of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies, Paris, France.

Yorulmaz, O., Karancı, A. N., & Dirik, G. (2006). Padua Inventory-Washington State University-Revised: Psychometric properties of Turkish version. Oral presentation in the 14^th National Psychology Congress, Ankara.

Yorulmaz, O., Yılmaz, E., & Gençöz, T. (2004). Psychometric properties of Thought-Action Fusion Scale in a Turkish sample. Behavior Research and Therapy, 42, 1204-1214.

Yorulmaz, O. (2002). Responsibility and perfectionism as predictors of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology: a test of cognitive model. Unpublished master thesis. Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey.