HONORS AND AWARDS
2012 : The Roberta Grodberg Simmons Prize Lecture of the Society for Research on Adolescence
2011 : Ministry of National Education UNICEF International Congress of Early Childhood Education – Award for Contribution to Early Childhood Education
2011 : TUBITAK Science Award
2011 : Middle East Technical University Award for Distinguished Achievement
2010 :

Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology
2010 - 2013 : Jacobs Foundation Research Award: Universal and Culture-Specific Antecedents of Civic Engagament – Who Grows Up to be a Volunteer.
2008 : Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award (of the American Psychological Association, Division of International Psychology) for co-authored book, Families Across Cultures: A 30 Nation Psychological Study.
2008 : Ankara University Center for the Study of Child Culture Science Award
2007 :

William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, European Society for Developmental Psychology
2006 : Fellow of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
2005 : Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
2003 - 2004 :

The German Research Council  (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) Research Award: Value of Children in Turkey - A Three Decade comparison
1998 : Honorary Fellow of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
1998 : International Association of Applied Psychology, Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to the International Advancement of Applied Psychology
1997 : Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award
1996 : Middle East Technical University Mustafa Parlar Science Award
1993 - :

Turkish Academy of Sciences Founding Member (1994-1997 Member of the Academy Council)
1993 : American Psychological Association 1993 Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology Award
1993 - 1994 :

Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

1992 :

Turkish Children's Foundation Award for research in child development
1991 :

MEAwards Research Award (Population Council-International Development Research Center (IDRC)-Ford Foundation) (Follow-up Study of the Turkish Early Enrichment Project)
1985 : Phi Beta Kappa (Alumnae Award; Wellesley College)
1983 - 1984 :

Fulbright Scholar (Fulbright Senior Fellowship; Harvard University); Bunting Fellow, M.I. Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; Honorary Fellow of the Population Council; Pathfinder Award
1982 - 1986 : IDRC research award (Turkish Early Enrichment Project)
1980 : Turkish Social Science Award (Simavi Foundation)
1978 : MEAwards Research Award (Population Council-IDRC- Ford)  (A Multiple Indicator Approach: Development, VOC and Fertility) (Co-Investigator: Yılmaz Esmer)
1974 : IDRC research award (Value of Children Project)
1968 : Ford Foundation research grant (İzmir Project)
1964 - 1965 : American Association of University Women Fellowship; International House Fellowship; University of California, Berkeley
1959 - 1961 : Wellesley Scholar, Wellesley College
1969 : Fulbright Grant