Mentorship

Teaching

Course Director, HH PSYC 2120: Social Psychology, York University, Canada

— 170 Student Lecture; with 2 Teaching Assistants (Fall 2023-2024)

— Example Topics: Self & Identity, Group Processes, Attitudes, Intergroup Relations

Quotation from Student Feedback: “What I valued the most about this course was the professor, I think that the way he presented information was very well done, it made understanding the course material easier and more interesting. Instead of reading of a script or a slide, he would sometimes have pictures and he would springboard off of those images, having a professor speak in their own words when presenting is priceless.”

Course Director, HH PSYC 4020: Seminar in Social Psych, York University, Canada

— 30 Student Seminar with Specialist Content: Social Psych of Emotions (Fall 2023-2024)

— Example Topics: Emotions in Context, Emotion across Cultures, Intergroup Emotions

Quotation from Student Feedback: “The professor is an amazing intellectual that is able to communicate the course concepts in an understandable way. 10/10 ”

Course Joint-Director, HH PSYC 2022: Statistical Methods II, York University, Canada

— 120 Student Lecture; with 2 Teaching Assistants (Winter 2022-2023)

— Example Topics: t-tests, ANOVAs, Factorial Designs, Correlations, Simple Regression

Quotation from Student Feedback: “Professor Kumalan (sic.) was incredible – razor sharp articulation, simplifies complicated concepts effectively, maintains an inviting presence through patience with questions directed to him! Truly one of the best tertiary level educators that I’ve been privileged to learn from.”

Supervision

Joint-Supervisor, Independent Research Projects (Undergrad), York University, Canada

— Parker Lee Grant: A model of emotion stereotypes in social interactions (2024)

Current PhD Student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada

— Cynthia Huang: How racial categorization is impacted by emotion stereotypes (2024)

Supervisor, Bachelors & Taught Masters Theses, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

— 4 Bachelor Theses (2020) & 12 Taught Master Theses (2018-2022)

— Example Topics: Culture & Emotional Expressions, Positive Emotions & Donations

Joint-Supervisor, Internships & Research Masters Theses, University of Amsterdam

— Irene Teulings (2022): Spontaneous expressions of specific positive emotions

Current PhD Student in Social Psychology at University of Oslo, Norway

— Mirna Đurić (2020): On the social consequences of breaking emotion expressivity norms

Current PhD Student in Social Psychology at VU Amsterdam, Netherlands

— Zi Ye (2020) How social class relates to the display of positive emotions

Former PhD Student in Social Psychology at Leiden University, Netherlands

— Evgeniya Vedernikova (2020) Display rules for emotional expressions in Russia

Current PhD Student in Developmental Psychology at Tilburg University, Netherlands

— Ketaki Diwan (2019) A cross-cultural comparison in display rules for positive emotions

Current PhD Student in Developmental Psychology at Tilburg University, Netherlands

Guest Lectures

Guest Lecturer, Cultural Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Topic: Conceptualizing and Measuring Emotions across Cultures (2018, 2022)