Sercan Kahveci

Position

Senior Scientist; Department of Psychology; Division of Health Psychology and Psychopathology

Education

• Dr. rer. nat., Ph.D programme "Imaging the Mind", Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, 2024

• MSc., Research Master Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 2018 (Major Clinical Psychology, Minor Brain & Cognition)

• MSc., Brain & Cognition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2017

• BSc., Brain & Cognition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2015

Research Interests

In day-to-day life, cognitive processes guide our behavior outside our awareness. My interest goes towards the implicit processes that initiate and maintain disordered behavior. During my Postdoc, I will refine the methods by which we can modify these approach-biases in the eating domain.

Representative Publications

• Kahveci, S., Rinck, M., van Alebeek, H., & Blechert, J. (2024). How pre-processing decisions affect the reliability and validity of the approach–avoidance task: Evidence from simulations and multiverse analyses with six datasets. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 1551-1582. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02109-1

• Kahveci, S., van Alebeek, H., & Blechert, J. (2024). The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: validity, training efficacy, and the role of contingency awareness in changing food preference. Cognition and Emotion, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2418445

• Kahveci, S., Bathke, A. C., & Blechert, J. (2024). Reaction-time task reliability is more accurately computed with permutation-based split-half correlations than with Cronbach’s alpha. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02597-y 

• Kahveci, S., Meule, A., Lender, A., & Blechert, J. (2020). Food approach bias is moderated by the desire to eat specific foods. Appetite, 154, 104758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104758 

Software

• Kahveci, S. (2024). rapidsplithalf: A Fast Split-Half Reliability Algorithm (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rapidsplithalf