User:Perseverance96/Doğan Cüceloğlu

Doğan Cüceloğlu (b. February 9, 1938 Silifke, Mersin - d. February 16, 2021; Beşiktaş, Istanbul) is a Turkish psychologist and an expert of psychology of communication. He has published more than 40 scientific articles and has presented development seminars within the framework of scientific psychology to various communities. He examined the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of Turkish people with numerous personal development books.

Life
He was born on February 9, 1938 as the youngest child of a family with 11 children in the Silifke district of Mersin province. He finished his secondary School also in Silifke, then finished high school in Ankara and Kırklareli. He graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Psychology. He completed his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Illinois, USA.

He worked in Turkey at Hacettepe University and Boğaziçi University. After that he received a Fulbright scholarship to work as a guest lecturer at California State University for a year. He then worked at same university between 1980 and 1996. From 1996 onwards, he organized seminars, conferences and workshops in Turkey for university students, teachers, parents and businessmen. Since 1990, Cüceloğlu has taken care to publish his books in Turkish, wrote books, which examine the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of the Turkish people within scientific psychology concepts.

He died at the age of 83 at his home in Beşiktaş district of Istanbul on February 16, 2021. His cause of death was aortic rupture.