Before attending ODTÜ, Aysu received her B.A. in Psychology from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, then she received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She defended her dissertation titled "Moderating Role of the Dark Triad Personality Traits on the Association Between Emotional Labor and Work Outcomes: An Examination Based on Activation/Inhibition Pathways" under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yonca Toker Gültaş. She is currently working as a freelance consultant, and a professional coach. Her work experience mostly focused on employee training and development, though she has diverse research interests like personality traits (especially the dark side of personality), vocational interests, emotional labor, and HR analytics.

İpek Mete received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from METU in 2020. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the effects of teamwork and taskwork focus in team debriefings under the supervision of Prof. Dr. H. Canan Sümer. Her research interests include teamwork, team training, and individual difference predictors of academic achievement. In cooperation with Yonca Toker Gültaş, she studied the relative predictive powers of fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and grit on the academic success of college and graduate students. 

He received his M.Sc. degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from METU in 2014. His thesis, under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Dr. Yonca Toker, was on developing a work discipline index based on compound personality scale development guides and item response theory analyses results to predict performance. He also studied the moderating role of situation strength on the personality-performance association. He was a part-time scholarship student in Dr. Toker’s TÜBİTAK 3001 project and particularly worked on the IRT and DIF analyses of the STEM Interest Complexity Scale. His research interests further include predicting fakers on personality assessments based on random forest modeling.

Within the scope of “Vocational Counseling and Career Development” course which is given by Dr. Yonca Toker, I worked on a book chapter which aims to understand the importance of data and people complexity for managerial positions. To be more precise, the main purpose was to clarify how O*Net and Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes tackle managerial jobs based on occupational complexity. Accordingly, knowledge/skills/abilities that are characterized with these complex positions was defined and factors which predict being successful at “managing” as well as leadership emergence was emphasized. 

Under the supervision of Assist.Prof. Yonca Toker, I have conducted a review study on the following topics within the scope of a book covering vocational interest and organizational behavior: Association between internship experiences and vocational outcomes; the effect of early (primary school and secondary school) intervention programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics on the career choices of female students. 

Topics of Interest: Job satisfaction, employee motivation, organizational well-being, personality at the workplace, personality in personnel selection.

Topics of Interest: Organizational well-being, personality testing, personality at work, cross-cultural studies in organizational psychology.

Topics of Interest: Personality testing, employee motivation, organizational behavior, employee selection processes, personality at work.

Emel Ceren Erarslan received her B.A. in Psychology from METU, in 2024, February. She has different research interests; personality traits, implicit personality assessment, moral and agentic attitudes in the work context, and decision-making in social/work contexts. Emel Ceren took part in the research project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Yonca Toker Gültaş, in collaboration with Illinois State University. She was involved in preparing a research design, literature reviews, and data collection and statistical analyses.

Topics of Interest: Personality and its effects on self-representation, Personality in work psychology & employee engagement.