Ayse Uskul

@profiles.sussex.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Sussex

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Psychology, Social Psychology
9207

Scholar Citations

48

Scholar h-index

87

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Advancing a dynamic approach to cultural psychology beyond stable dichotomies
    AK Uskul, B Mesquita
    Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • A Socio-Ecological and Multilevel Approach to the Role of Honour Cultures on Violence Justification: Resource Scarcity and Ineffective Law Enforcement
    MS Uysal, AK Uskul
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221261431329 , 2026
    2026
  • Honour across borders: How cultural norms shape prejudice confrontation in migration contexts
    MS Uysal, T Kessler, AK Uskul
    British Journal of Social Psychology 65 (1), e70034 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • The Role of Frustration and Guilt in Partner Cyber-Aggression Among Young People When a Culture of Honour is Endorsed
    E Lopez-Zafra, AK Uskul, A Lorente-Anguís
    Psychological Reports, 00332941251399172 , 2025
    2025
  • The role of honor in perceptions of sextortion victims: evidence from Italy and the UK
    MS Alemi, AK Uskul, I Giovannelli, S Pagliaro, F Spaccatini, MG Pacilli
    Sexuality & Culture 29 (5), 2260-2278 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 6
  • Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies
    S Jin, A Romano, VL Vignoles, A Kirchner-Häusler, R Rodríguez-Bailón, ...
    Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Assessing the role of honour culture and image concerns in impeding apologies
    A Kirchner‐Häusler, AK Uskul, MJA Wohl, N Orazani, R Rodriguez‐Bailón, ...
    European Journal of Social Psychology 55 (5), 893-911 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Gendered Corruption: People’s Reactions to Victims of Monetary Versus Sexual Extortion
    MS Alemi, MG Pacilli, F Spaccatini, AK Uskul, I Giovannelli, S Pagliaro
    Journal of interpersonal violence 40 (15-16), 3504-3525 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Commonly observed sex differences in direct aggression are absent or reversed in sibling contexts
    MEW Varnum, AP Kirsch, DJ Beal, CM Pick, L Al-Shawaf, C Ambrosio, ...
    PNAS nexus 4 (8), pgaf239 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Higher social class is associated with higher contextualized emotion recognition accuracy across cultures
    K Kafetsios, U Hess, I Alonso-Arbiol, A Schütz, D Gruda, K Campbell, ...
    Plos one 20 (5), e0323552 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Bystanders’ reactions to a woman victim of sextortion: Moral outrage, victim blaming and reputational damage
    MG Pacilli, MS Alemi, F Spaccatini, I Giovannelli, AK Uskul, S Pagliaro
    European Journal of Social Psychology 55 (3), 532-546 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 10
  • Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean.
    AK Uskul, PHP Hanel, A Kirchner-Häusler, VL Vignoles, S Jin, ...
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 10
  • A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being
    K Kafetsios, U Hess, D Dostal, M Seitl, P Hypsova, S Hareli, ...
    Journal of Research in Personality 114, 104556 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • The role of apology beliefs for apology tendencies across cultures with varying honor norms
    A Kirchner-Häusler, AK Uskul, MJA Wohl, VL Vignoles, SE Cross, ...
    Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 9, 100230 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour
    Á Sánchez‐Rodríguez, C O'Dea, AK Uskul, A Kirchner‐Häusler, ...
    British Journal of Social Psychology 64 (1), e12854 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Retributive justice beliefs in Cyprus: The role of apology effectiveness and honor value endorsement
    S Husnu, C Psaltis, A Kirchner-Häusler, A Uskul
    Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 8, 100224 , 2025
    2025
  • Are Mediterranean societies “cultures of honor?”: Prevalence and implications of a cultural logic of honor across three world regions
    VL Vignoles, A Kirchner-Häusler, AK Uskul, SE Cross, ...
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672241295500 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 19
  • Challenges and opportunities for psychological research in the majority world
    AK Uskul, AG Thalmayer, ABI Bernardo, R González, A Kende, S Laher, ...
    Collabra: Psychology 10 (1), 123703 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 50
  • (In) Alienable Worth? Cultural Logics of Dignity, Honor, and Face and their Links to Prosociality Across the World
    L Grigoryan, A Grigoryan, K Schmidt, E Buchanan, S Yousefi, T Blackall, ...
    OSF , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada
    AK Uskul, J Cila, P Gul, A Kirchner‐Häusler, B Hubená
    British Journal of Social Psychology 63 (4), 1701-1724 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 7

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia.
    S Kitayama, H Park, AT Sevincer, M Karasawa, AK Uskul
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Personality and … , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 918
  • Culture, mind, and the brain: Current evidence and future directions
    S Kitayama, AK Uskul
    Annual review of psychology 62 (1), 419-449 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 912
  • Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders
    AK Uskul, S Kitayama, RE Nisbett
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (25), 8552 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 658
  • Why social values cannot be changed for the sake of conservation
    MJ Manfredo, JT Bruskotter, TL Teel, D Fulton, SH Schwartz, R Arlinghaus, ...
    Conservation Biology 31 (4), 772-780 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 466
  • The cultural congruency effect: Culture, regulatory focus, and the effectiveness of gain-vs. loss-framed health messages
    AK Uskul, DK Sherman, J Fitzgibbon
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45 (3), 535-541 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 377
  • Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries
    S Pagliaro, S Sacchi, MG Pacilli, M Brambilla, F Lionetti, K Bettache, ...
    PloS one 16 (3), e0248334 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 298
  • Honor bound: The cultural construction of honor in Turkey and the Northern United States
    AK Uskul, SE Cross, Z Sunbay, B Gercek-Swing, B Ataca
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 43 (7), 1131-1151 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 234
  • Psychological wellbeing in a Turkish-Canadian sample
    AK Uskul, E Greenglass
    Anxiety, stress, and coping 18 (3), 269-278 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 225
  • Cross-cultural emotional prosody recognition: Evidence from Chinese and British listeners
    S Paulmann, AK Uskul
    Cognition & Emotion 28 (2), 230-244 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 191
  • Cultural prototypes and dimensions of honor
    SE Cross, AK Uskul, B Gerçek-Swing, Z Sunbay, C Alözkan, C Günsoy, ...
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0146167213510323 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 191
  • Women's menarche stories from a multicultural sample
    AK Uskul
    Social science & medicine 59 (4), 667-679 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 186
  • Culture shapes empathic responses to physical and social pain.
    D Atkins, AK Uskul, NR Cooper
    Emotion 16 (5), 587 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 178
  • Interdependence as a mediator between culture and interpersonal closeness for Euro-Canadians and Turks
    AK Uskul, M Hynie, RN Lalonde
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 35 (2), 174-191 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 176
  • Improving Medical Decision Making and Health Promotion through Culture-Sensitive Health Communication An Agenda for Science and Practice
    C Betsch, R Böhm, CO Airhihenbuwa, R Butler, GB Chapman, N Haase, ...
    Medical Decision Making, 0272989X15600434 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 175
  • When message-frame fits salient cultural-frame, messages feel more persuasive
    AK Uskul, D Oyserman
    Psychology and Health 25 (3), 321-337 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 171
  • Maintaining harmony across the globe: The cross-cultural association between closeness and interpersonal forgiveness
    JC Karremans, C Regalia, FG Paleari, FD Fincham, M Cui, N Takada, ...
    Social Psychological and Personality Science 2 (5), 443-451 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 155
  • Cultural emphasis on honor, modesty, or self‐enhancement: implications for the survey‐response process
    AK Uskul, D Oyserman, N Schwarz
    Survey methods in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts … , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 144
  • Cultures of honor
    AK Uskul, SE Cross, C Gunsoy, P Gul
    The Guilford Press , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 143
  • Unfair treatment and self-regulatory focus
    D Oyserman, AK Uskul, N Yoder, RM Nesse, DR Williams
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43 (3), 505-512 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 142
  • Family matters: Rethinking the psychology of human social motivation
    A Ko, CM Pick, JY Kwon, M Barlev, JA Krems, MEW Varnum, R Neel, ...
    Perspectives on Psychological Science 15 (1), 173-201 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 125