Dr. Hansika Kapoor is the first South Asian to be awarded the 2025 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association. She has been awarded for her outstanding research by in creativity and will be giving the Berlyne address at the March conference at Yale.

Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘Are low-maintenance friendships really just one-sided situationships?’ Read more here!

Hansika Kapoor and Sarah Rezaei (Monk Prayogshala), along with co-authors Hreem Mahadeshwar and James C. Kaufman, had their paper featured in the article ‘Anxiety boosts idea quantity but hinders creative originality, study suggests.’ Read more here!

Hansika Kapoor (Monk Prayogshala), was a guest on ‘The Timeboat Podcast.’ Check it out here!

Apoorva conducted a workshop called ‘Ctrl+Alt+Research: Research Methods in Social Sciences.’ at NMIMS, Kharghar on 24th January, 2025.

Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘Can Mismatched Ambition Be a Dealbreaker In Your Relationship?’ Read more here!

Tithi and Hansika wrote about ‘How does Dark Leadership Affect Creativity?’ Read more here!

Hansika along with Sarah, Hreem and James wrote a paper on ‘What Could Go Wrong? Anxiety Fuels, but Optimism Buffers Negative Counterfactual Divergent Thinking.’ Read more here!

Anirudh and Bijoyetri wrote a paper on ‘Language Capital and Grade Repetition: Evidence From Nationally-Representative Survey Data in India.’ Read more here!

Hansika along with others published a paper on ‘Creativity Predicts Standardized Educational Outcomes Beyond GPA and Personality.’ Read more here!

Anirudh presented his paper on ‘Beyond school: Socio-Emotional Skills and School-Related Outcomes in India’ at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Asia Conference 2024, National University of Singapore.

Netra wrote about ‘How Does Sleep Paralysis Differ Around the World?’ Read more here!

Hansika and Anirudh along with 53 other co-authors published a paper on ‘Predicting the Replicability of Social and Behavioural Science Claims in COVID-19 Preprints’ Read more here!

Anirudh presented his paper on ‘Cash persists: Evidence on Payment Preferences from Novel Data in Urban India’ at the Behavioural Research in Economics - Economic Science Association (BREW-ESA) Conference at Ashoka University.

Anirudh presented his paper on ‘EnergyBot: Evidence on Reducing Energy Consumption in Urban India’ at the The 5th India Public Policy Network (IPPN) Conference at IIT Bombay.

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Sarah Rezaei conducted a workshop on Research in Psychology and Statistical Tools at Patkar Varde College.

Hansika wrote about ‘Does Behavioral Science Have a Dark Side?’ Read more here!

Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘How technology is helping plug the gaps in mental healthcare.’ Read more here!

Tithi and Hansika write about ‘Rumors are Darkly Creative Narratives.’ Read more here!