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Ozlem Ayduk is a Professor and Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and leads the Relationships and Social Cognition Lab. Her work bridges social-personality psychology with cognitive neuroscience to explore individual differences in self-regulation and social adjustment.
- Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Her research focuses on three domains: (1) negative interpersonal schemas as mediators of psychological adjustment, (2) self-distancing mechanisms in emotion regulation, and (3) developmental trajectories of delay of gratification in children. She investigates how rejection sensitivity, self-esteem, and cognitive control influence outcomes like depression, aggression, and relationship stability, using multi-level analyses (behavioral, physiological, neural).
Recent work examines self-distancing in clinical populations, its application to real-time stressors, and the neural basis of long-term self-regulation. Her publications highlight collaborations with Walter Mischel and Ethan Kross, integrating personality theory with cognitive-affective processing systems.
