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Evin Aktar received her bachelor degree in psychology in 2008 from the University of Bogazici, Istanbul. She completed Research Master Psychology Programme at UvA in 2010 with a major specialization in clinical psychology and a minor specialization in psychonomics. 
Her current research at UvA focuses on the effects of parental anxiety disorders and of expressed parental anxiety on infant fear learning. The research is part of the project "Models and tests of early category formation: interactions between cognitive, emotional, and neural mechanisms" and focuses in the broader scope on the learning of fear as an emotion category.
Majdandžić, M., de Vente, W., Feinberg, M. E., Aktar, E., & Bögels, S. M. (2011). Bidirectional Associations Between Coparenting Relations and Family Member Anxiety: A Review and Conceptual Model. Clinical child and family psychology review. doi:10.1007/s10567-011-0103-6.  
Aktar, E., Majdandžić, M., de Vente, W., & Bögels, S. M. (accepted). The Interplay between Expressed Parental Anxiety and Infant Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Infant Avoidance in a Social Referencing Paradigm. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 

"Models and tests of early category formation: interactions between cognitive, emotional, and neural mechanisms"