Conference Presentations and Posters

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


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