About me
Dr. Fatih Uenal
Cultural & Political Psychologist || Data Scientist
Last updated: 2023-06-04
Hello, and welcome to my personal website!
Currently, I am working as a Senior Lecturer (Mâitre-assistant) & Data Scientist at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (University of Geneva, Switzerland). I consider myself a cultural and political psychologist, broadly defined. Working at the intersection of a variety of fields in the cultural, social, and behavioral sciences, I adopt an integrative perspective to the study of intercultural, interspecies, and human-environment relations in which I employ methods from cultural, social, and environmental psychology, political science, and sociology—while incorporating theoretical insights from emerging perspectives in anthropology. In my research I employ qualitative as well quantitative methods. Topics of particular interest to me are social and ecological (in)equality, climate change, speciesism, pro-environmental behaviors, anthropocentrism, misinformation and conspiracy beliefs, prejudice and discrimination, well-being, and political ideologies amongst others.
My research has been featured in the Washington Post, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, Varsity, and other outlets.
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Publications
PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED
Published
Uenal, F., Sidanius, J., Maertens, R., Hudson, S. K. T., Davis, G., & Ghani, A. (2022). The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric and hierarchically organized world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 81, 101783. DOI. Impact Factor: 7.65
Uenal, F., Sidanius, J., & van der Linden, S. (2022). Social and ecological dominance orientations: Two sides of the same coin? Social and ecological dominance orientations predicting decreased support for climate change mitigation policies. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(6), 1555-1576. DOI. Impact Factor: 2.71
Basol, M., Roozenbeek, J., Berriche, M., Uenal, F., McClanahan, W. P., & Linden, S. V. D. (2021). Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation. Big Data & Society, 8(1). DOI. Impact Factor: 8.73
Uenal, F., Sidanius, J., Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2021). Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 97, 104228. DOI. Impact Factor: 3.53
Uenal, F., Bergh, R., Sidanius, J., Zick, A., Kimel, S., Kunst, J. (2020). The nature ofIslamophobia:A test of a tripartite view in five countries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Online First). DOI. Impact Factor: 4.56
Uenal, F. (2016a). Disentangling Islamophobia: The differential effects of symbolic, realistic, and terroristic threat perceptions as mediators between social dominance orientation and Islamophobia. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 4(1), 66–90. DOI. Impact Factor: 1.84
Uenal, F. (2016b). The “Secret Islamization” of Europe: Exploring integrated threat theory for predicting Islamophobic conspiracy stereotypes. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 10(1), 93–108. DOI. Impact Factor: 0.58
Uenal, F. (2016c). Islamophobia & Anti-Semitism. Comparing the social psychological underpinnings of Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Beliefs in Contemporary Germany. Islamophobia Studies Journal, 3(2), 35–55. DOI. Impact Factor: 0.94
Revise & Resubmit
Hudson, S.K.T. & Uenal, F. (2023). The connections between personality, ideology and (counter-)empathic emotions depend on the target. Journal of Personality. DOI. Impact Factor: 5.43
Uenal, F. (2023). Die geheime Islamisierung des Abendlandes. Großgruppen Verschwörungstheorien als Nährboden von Fremdgruppen Diskriminierung und Rechtspopulismus. Journal für Psychologie. DOI. Impact Factor: 1.53
In preparation
Uenal, F., Pagel, L., Spampatti, T., & Brosch, T. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of communication interventions to promote climate change mitigation. For submission to: Nature Human Behaviour. Impact Factor: 24.25
Uenal, F., Kunst, J., Hudson, S.K.T, Badloe, S., & Brosch. T (2023). Predictors of climate change policy preferences: A machine learning approach. For submission to: Global Environmental Change. DOI.
Impact Factor: 11.16
Uenal, F., Wac, K., & Brosch. T (2023). Cross-cultural differences in wellbeing. Social-psychological and cultural determinants analysis using machine learning.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Uenal, F., Pagel, L., & Brosch. T (2022). How to communicate about climate change: A concise guide. A step-by-step decision chart for more effective, equitable, and fair climate change communication in the context of individual behaviour change. Geneva: Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. Link.
Uenal, F., Pagel, L., & Brosch. T (2022). Review of Climate Change Communication and Behavioural Intervention Strategies to Maximise Behavioural Impact. Geneva: Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. Link.
Roig, E. & Uenal, F. (2019). Intersektionalität in Deutschland, Chancen, Lücken und Herausforderungen. A Report by Center for Intersectional Justice e.V. and DeZIM e.V. Berlin. DOI.
Skills
| Languages | ||
| German | Native Speaker | |
| Turkish | Native Speaker | |
| English | Proficient User | |
| Arabic | Basic User | |
| French | Basic User | |
| Programming | ||
| R | Advanced | |
| Python | Intermediate | |
| Docker | Intermediate | |
| SQL | Beginner | |
| Statistical Software | ||
| SPSS | Advanced | |
| STATA | Intermediate | |
| AMOS | Intermediate | |
| G*Power | Intermediate | |
| Data collection | ||
| Qualtrics | Advanced | |
| MTurk | Intermediate | |
| Prolific | Intermediate | |
| G*Gorilla.sc | Intermediate |
Data Science
| Machine Learning | |
| Supervised learning | |
| Unsupervised learning | |
| Reinforcement learning | |
| Natural Language Processing | |
| Artificial Neural Nets | |
| K-means | |
| Hierarchical cluster | |
| Linear discriminant analysis | |
| Quadratic discriminant analysis | |
| Principal Components Analysis | |
| Boosting | |
| Bagging | |
| Random forests | |
| Support Vector Machine | |
| Cross-validation | |
| Statistics | Probability |
| Bayesian Statistics | |
| Univariate Analysis | |
| Multivariate Analysis | |
| Time-series Analysis | |
| Structural Equation Modeling | |
| Confirmatory Factor Analysis | |
| Psychometrics | |
| A/B Testing | |
| Experimental Survey Analysis | |
| Population-Based Survey Analysis | |
| Data Analsysis & Communication | |
| Modeling | |
| Hypothesis Testing | |
| Wrangling | |
| Data Visualization | |
| Presentation |
