Staff profile
Overview
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Biography
Faruk is a PhD student in Social Psychology with a focus on the intersections of psychology and social justice. He is passionate about understanding the motivations that drive individuals to support disadvantaged outgroups through actions like donations and protesting. With a background in psychology, sociology, and political science, his research explores how basic needs of autonomy. competence and relatedness influence solidarity-based actions and how these actions are shaped by political and social contexts.
Supervisors
Research interests
- Allyship
- Collective action
- Activism
- Social change
- Self-determination
- Pro-environmental behaviors
- Social and temporal discounting