Professional Bio

Kivilcim is a first-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program at Penn State working with Dr. Erika Lunkenheimer. She earned her Master's degree in Psychology from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 2020. Her broad interests are parents' socialization of negative emotions and emotion regulation in early childhood. Kıvılcım hopes to investigate parent-child coregulation patterns in contexts with different types and levels of challenge to better capture the early parent-child coercive cycle.