Diane Sunar is emeritus professor of social psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University, where her academic interests range from early childhood development and intervention to the evolutionary basis of morality. Most of her research has focused on cross-cultural similarities and differences in social psychological processes.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in California, Sunar received her doctorate in social psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 and has taught in Turkish universities ever since. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters and presented more than 60 papers at professional conferences. She has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, mainly in areas of social and developmental psychology, as well as evolutionary psychology. In addition to membership in several psychology associations and serving as consulting editor or reviewer for several psychology journals, she has also worked as a scientific advisor to the Turkish Mother & Child Education Foundation (MOCEF) and other organizations.
