What’s New at Prayogshala
Anirudh co-authored a paper on ‘Cash Persists: Payments Preferences and Currency Holdings in India.’ Read more here!
Hatoon Abu Al-Ghaith translated the article titled ‘What We Lost When We Lost the Veranda’ written by Sarah and Komal in Arabic. Read more here!
Monk Prayogshala’s study “Child Artists in India: An Exploratory Study in Mumbai,” funded by CRY - Child Rights and You was featured in the article ‘Why the Supreme Court’s observation on child labour is a timely reminder’ in The Week. Read more here!
Hansika co-authored a paper titled ‘Predicting Creativity from Personality Traits and Overexcitabilities: Cross-Cultural Evidence from Lebanon and the United States.’ Read more here!
Hansika, Sarah, Apoorva, and Tithi co-authored a paper titled ‘Development and Behavioral Validation of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB)’ with Corinna and James. Read more here!
Anirudh co-authored a paper ‘Dissecting the cost of peering: Global evidence from internet exchange points (IXPs)’ with Amreesh Phokeer. Read more here!
Anirudh co-authored a paper ‘Decentralized health governance, private action, and welfare: evidence from India.’ Read more here!
Sarah and Hansika co-authored chapter 2, ‘What Is the Nature of the Creative Person?’ of the book ‘The Seven C’s of Creativity.’ Read more here!
Zainab Participated as a policy contributor and research representative at the National Level Consultative Meeting on “Digital Technologies for Mental Health: Evolving Policy and Regulatory Recommendations for Safe Use” at Bangalore, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS).
Hansika co-authored a paper, ‘Mental Health Symptoms and Coping in Rural Maharashtra, India – A Telephonic Survey.’ Read more here!
Hansika, Arathy, Anirudh, Nikita, and Akshaya replicated and reproduced findings of major studies in social and behavioural sciences. Read more here!
Hansika, Arathy and Anirudh replicated and reproduced findings of major studies in social and behavioural sciences. Read more here!
Sarah presented a talk on “Who is a Creative Person, Really?” at the ARISA foundation’s Unconference 2026 held in Pune.
T. Roy shared our reflection from the webinar series we conducted on 'Decolonising Cross-Cultural Psychology’ at the EDUCATE forum by IACCP.
Sarah and Hansika wrote about ‘Counterproductive Work Behavior and Dark Creativity.’ Read more here!
Zainab gave a talk on ‘ Doing Research in Constrained Contexts: A Feminist and Decolonial Perspective’ at Sophia College in Mumbai on February 20th, 2026.
Anirudh and Hansika wrote an article about the cultural nuances in the TV show “Pluribus.” Read more here!
Batman is more than a superhero; he is a cultural mirror that has reflected more than eighty years of shifting societal ideologies. For over eight decades, Batman has remained one of the most adaptable characters in popular culture. But how does a character who varies so radically remain recognizable as the same person?
We often treat environmental crises in India as a "software" issue, shouting at people to change their behavior while ignoring the broken "hardware" of our systems. Between high-stress urban life and a literal "survival tax" on our mental bandwidth, sustainable living feels like a mental workout we can’t afford. This blog explores how we can hack our cognitive defaults to make green choices effortless by designing systems that work for us, not against us.
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Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Research Methodology and Statistical Reasoning
Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Behavioral Economics.

Hansika co-authored a paper on the content validity evaluation of the “creativity” scales in the PISA 2022 student and context questionnaires. Read more here!