Sinem Acar-Burkay

Sinem Acar-Burkay

Associate Professor
Department of Business, Marketing and Law
USN School of Business
Campus Hønefoss
+47 31 00 94 43
Sinem Acar‑Burkay is an Associate Professor at the School of Business at the University of South‑Eastern Norway (USN), within the Department of Economics, Marketing and Law. Her research interests include Cooperation & Competition in negotiations; Trust, distrust, and interpersonal impression formation; Personality x Situation interaction; Stress, cognition, emotions in Decision Making in Crisis; Conspiracy mindset, Dark personality traits & Financial Behavior; Consumers' personal data sharing, privacy concerns, and AI use; Human‑like AI design and its impact on users' cognition and behavior. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) and The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP). The practical implications of her various research projects appeared in several media outlets including Aftenposten, TV2, LederNytt and others.

Responsibilities

Teaching:  Research Methods (Masters) and Negotiation (Bachelor); Supervision: Bachelor, Master and PhD; Research in areas of expertise

Competences

PhD in Business and Management from BI Norwegian Business School.  

Teaching and Supervision in bachelor, masters, og phd level.

Academic course coordinator for Research Methods taught across all master’s programs at USN’s Hønefoss Campus. 

Specialized research competence in Research Design and Methods across disciplines and methodologies, including quantitative (experimental design, surveys, and econometric/time‑series data analysis) and qualitative methods (document analysis, interviews, text and non‑verbal communication analysis, including audio‑data analysis). 

Active member of several research groups at USN, including Economic Analysis; Security, Preparedness and Crisis Management; and Market and Organization, 

Researcher role in EU‑funded Eurostars CAPTURE Project (2022–2024).

CV

EDUCATION

2014 Ph.D. in Business and Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

  • Supervisors: Prof. Luk Warlop (BI and KU Leuven) and Prof. Vidar Schei (NHH)
  • Committee members: Richard Bagozzi (University of Michigan) and Bianca Beersma (VU University of Amsterdam)

2009 M.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics, NHH, Norway

2006 B.A. in Psychology, Koc University, Turkey

2006 B.A. in International Relations, Koc University, Turkey

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

2017 -  Associate Professor, USN School of Business, Norway

2016 - 2017 Assistant Professor, IÉSEG School of Management, France

2009 - 2015 Teaching and Research Scholar, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

Publications

Publications in the Norwegian Research Information Repository