Conference Presentations, Posters, and Invited Talks

Posters and Presentations

2025

  • Puthillam, A & Rai, T. (2025, June). Cow Vigilantism: Caste, Nationalism, and Vegetarianism Preference in India. [Poster]. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Portland, OR.

2024

  • Puthillam, A & Ghai, S. (2024, June). Funding Futures: Building Psychology Infrastructure in the Global South [Hackathon]. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Puthillam, A & Rai, T. (2024, February). Moral desert transforms pain experience. [Poster]. Society for Social and Personality Psychology, San Diego, CA.

  • Puthillam, A A. & Ghai, S. (2024, February). International Bridge Building: Global Theories and Big Team Science [Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna and Dr. Netta Weinstein]. Society for Social and Personality Psychology, San Diego, CA.

2023

  • Kapoor, H., Rezaei, S., Gurjar, S., Tagat, A., George, D., Budhwar,Y. & Puthillam, A. (2023, February). Does Incentivization Promote Sharing of “Good” Content Online? [Poster] Society for Social and Personality Psychology.

  • Mahadeshwar, H., Mehta, N., Gurjar, S., Kapoor, H., & Puthillam, A. (2023, February). Does Incentivization Promote Sharing of “Good” Content Online? [Poster] Society for Social and Personality Psychology.

2022

  • Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2022, July). Social and personality correlates of political ideology in India. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology [to be presented virtually].

  • Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2022, July). Partisanship and vaccine hesitancy in India. Blitz to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology [to be presented virtually]

  • Ghai, S., Adetula, A., Puthillam, A., Salvador, C., Kapoor, H., Atari, M., Saab, R (2022, June). A global diversity hackathon: Crowdsourcing diverse perspectives from the global south. [Hackathon] at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science meeting, 2022. [presented virtually]

  • Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2022, February). Partisanship and mobility behaviours during COVID-19 in India. [Poster] SPSP Virtual Annual Convention. [Accepted]

  • Ticku, A., et al (2022, February). Pro-environmental behaviors. [Poster] SPSP Virtual Annual Convention.

2021

  • Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021, November). Beyond left and right: Political psychology in India. Poster presented at the Harvard Women in Psychology Trends in Psychology Summit.

  • Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, October). Who cares about the outgroup? Political Ideology, Intergroup Empathy, and Moral Decision-Making. Cross-country proposal presented at the Psychological Science Accelerator Conference 2021 (Preregistration)

  • Montilla, J., Puthillam, A., Kapoor, H. (2021, October). Guidelines on including non-WEIRD populations in psychological science. Paper to be presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Taiwan Psychological Association [based on a previous hackathon] Hackathon Materials

  • Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021, October). Role of psychology in combating misinformation. Conversation at The Centre for Internet and Society’s Seminar Series on Information Disorders.

  • Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, July). They caused the pandemic! The mediating role of conspiratorial blame on the relationship between political ideology and risk perception. Paper presented as a part of the symposium “The psychological underpinnings of believing and communicating COVID-19 conspiracies” for presentation at the 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (Preregistration)

  • Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, July). Who cares about the outgroup? Political Ideology, Empathy, and Moral Decision-Making. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (Preregistration) (Preprint)

  • Montilla, J., Puthillam, A., Kapoor, H. (2021, June). Guidelines on including non-WEIRD populations in psychological science. Hackathon at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science meeting, 2021. [Hackathon] (Materials).

  • Puthillam, A. (2021, June). Too WEIRD, Too Fast: Preprints about the coronavirus pandemic in psychological science: Wave 2. Lightning Talk at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science meeting, 2021 (Lightning Talk). (Slides) (Transcript)

  • Ticku, A., Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, May). How risky is it to not wear a mask? Moral emotions increase risk perception and public health behaviours during the Coronavirus epidemic. Flash talk paper presentation at the 2021 APS Virtual Convention. Virtual. (Preregistration)

  • Ticku, A., Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, May). Licence to litter: The moderated mediating role of environmental values and moral emotions in the relationship between past moral behaviour and intended pro-environmental behaviours. Research proposal poster presentation at the 2021 APS Virtual Convention. Virtual(OSF)

  • Kapoor, H. & Puthillam, A. (2021, April). Insights from Psychological Science and COVID-19 in India. Showcase at COVID-19 Research Network Conference. (Video)

  • Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021, February). Are you useful to me? How the Dark Triad Assesses benefits and experiences gratitude. Poster presented at the 2020 SPSP Virtual Annual Convention. (Working paper)

  • Ticku, A., Puthillam, A., Kapoor, H., & De, K. (2021, January). What predicts COVID-19 compliant behaviors in India? Paper presented at the 3rd Annual UK Political Psychology Conference.(OSF)

2020 and earlier

  • Puthillam, A., Karandikar, S., & Kapoor, H. (2020, July). Political Ideology in the Indian Context. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Berlin, Germany. (Held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic).(OSF)

  • Puthillam, A. (2016, December). The Perceptions of Moralities of Practicing and Non-Practicing Hindus in India. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the National Association of Psychology, IIT Madras, India.

  • Debnath, A., Phansikar, M., Puthillam, A.1, & Sengupta, P. (2016, December). Acceptance of gender atypical negative Behaviours: A Cross-sectional analysis. Paper Presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the National Association of Psychology, IIT Madras, India.

  • Debnath, A., Phansikar, M., Puthillam, A.1, & Sengupta, P. (2016, March). Cross Sectional Analysis of Gender Atypical Behaviours. Papers presented at the International Conference on Womens' Studies and Social Sciences, Goa, India

Invited Talks

  • 2026 International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Cross- Cultural Psychology Webinar Series. Talk: Overcoming Structural Barriers: Funding, Publishing, Access.

  • 2022 International Moral Psychology Seminar Series. ECR Databliz: You are what you eat: Food-related disgust and ideology in India.

  • 2021 New Delhi Behavioral Network. Talk: Political ideology in India (with Dr. Hansika Kapoor).

  • 2021 COVID-19 Research Network Conference. Showcase: Behavioral science research related to COVID-19 in India (with Dr. Hansika Kapoor).

  • 2017 St. Xaviers College (Autonomous), Mumbai. Talk: Professional Development Talk


  1. Authors contributed equally to this work. Authorship order determined appear alphabetically ↩︎