Publications

Individuals with higher levels of psychopathy were likely to perceive others as more helpful, when they were not. Higher levels of Machiavellianism were associated with a lower likelihood of rejecting a high help offer in an ultimatum game, indicating an accurate perception of help.

Financial incentives increased additive discernment on average by 0.44 posts shared and were 1.17 times more likely to discern between true and false information.

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In this Perspective, we raise the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge), calling for more responsible practices in generalising study findings and co-authorship to promote global equity in knowledge production.

This chapter explores the intersection of dark creativity and misinformation, particularly conspiratorial misinformation.

This study examined the different psychosocial predictors of believing in conspiratorial information related to general health in India.

In this experiment, a mock social media platform was created to understand if incentivizing participants to share factual content and disincentivizing the sharing of misinformation influenced their sharing behavior on the platform.

In this paper, we provide practical guidelines research funders, university administrators, professional societes and organizations, researchers, and journal reviewers and editors to improve internationalization in psychology.

This Wellcome Trust funded study highlights the various challenges faced by early career researchers, and STEM scientists at various positions in their careers during the COVID-19 restrictions in India.

This is a data paper that comprises of 51,404 individuals from 69 countries to help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public health behaviours.

This study explored whether a Global North bias also exists for psychological research on the coronavirus pandemic.

In this study, we applied machine learning on the multinational data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social and Moral Psychology of COVID-19 (N = 51,404) to test the predictive efficacy of constructs from social, moral, cognitive, and personality psychology, as well as socio-demographic factors, in the attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic.

This study examined the relationships between advice to report sexual assault and the relational distance between the confidant and the victim. We also explored victim blaming and rape myth acceptance.

In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours and endorsed public policy interventions during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020).

This study aimed at understanding how individuals with higher levels of dark triad experience gratitude at state and trait levels, when presented with situations that differentially benefit them.

We explore the relationship between disgust sensitivity and perception of scenes involving moral, sexual, and pathogen disgust in the show by providing participants with descriptions of such scenes.

We explore the relationship between dark triad and emotion recognition using multi-modal stimuli.