Elif Demirag Burak

Adjunct Faculty

Bio

Dr. Elif Demirag Burak is a social and industrial/organizational psychologist specializing in leadership. She earned her Ph.D. from the Leadership Lab at Koc University in Turkey. Her dissertation examined leadership, nonverbal behavior, and impression management and was funded by the UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. She also holds a master's degree in Conflict Resolution. During her doctoral studies, she received the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and worked as a visiting doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne) in Switzerland.

Before joining the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, Dr. Burak was a Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Oklahoma and later a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. In these roles, she taught undergraduate courses on leadership, research methods, and industrial/organizational psychology and conducted research on leadership, emotions, and nonverbal behavior. She combines her psychology background with business topics and is interested in helping students and organizations better understand human behavior in professional settings.

Selected Publications

• Aycan, Z., & Demirag Burak, E. G. (2024). Culture and appraisal and the management of performance. In M. Gelfand & M. Erez (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of culture and organizations. Oxford University Press.
• Connelly, S., & Demirag Burak, E. G. (2023). Leadership, creativity, and emotions. In Z. Ivcevic, J. D. Hoffman, & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of creativity and emotions (pp. 577–597). Cambridge University Press.
• Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J.,…, Demirag Burak, E. G., … (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 880–895.
• Demirag Burak, E. G., & Aycan, Z. (2022, May). Impression management in leadership: We choose self-promoting candidates as leaders among the incompetent ones. Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention.
• Zickfeld, J. H., …, Demirag Burak, E. G., … (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104137.

Contact Info

Phone:

 713-743-4650 

Email:

  eburak@uh.edu

Room:

 MH 310A

Website:

 No Web Site Currently