Our Faculty Member Dr. Bilge Uzun and BAU in The New York Times

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Uzun, a faculty member of our Faculty, together with our 3rd-year Guidance and Psychological Counseling student İpek Çam and our Guidance and Psychological Counseling doctoral student Aşkın Öykü Usta , attended the 10th Procrastination Research Conference ( https://procrastinationconference10.wordpress.com ) held in Chicago on 13-14 July 2017.

In addition to the oral presentation by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Uzun comparing the procrastination levels of undergraduate students in Türkiye, Austria, the United Kingdom and Poland, titled ‘Who procrastinate more: Comparison of procrastination styles across four countries’ , our undergraduate student İpek Çam gave a poster presentation titled " ‘Academic Procrastination: Frequency, Possible Reasons and Role of Hope" and our doctoral student Aşkın Öykü Usta gave a poster presentation titled ‘Reducing Procrastination Tendency Through Increased Time Management: The Effects of Short-Term Group-Counseling Programs’ . Once again emphasizing the prevalence of the behavior described as "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today," that is, procrastination(!) , the conference made an impact in America and was featured in The New York Times, one of the most widely read daily newspapers in America. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/science/procrastination-research-conference.html