Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Puthillam, A. (in press). Too WEIRD, Too Fast? Preprints about COVID-19 in Psychology. Collabra: Psychology.

  2. Azevedo, F.,… Puthillam, A.…Sampaio, W. M. (2022). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data.

  3. Pavlović, T…. Puthillam, A.… van Bavel, J. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093

  4. van Bavel et al (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9

  5. Puthillam, A., Parekh, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021). How do relationships to victims and perpetrators affect the advice to report rape in India? Violence against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012211005565

  6. Puthillam, A., Parekh, A., Karandikar, S., Kapoor, H. (2021). Gratitude blindness: How does the dark triad experiences gratitude? Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110309

  7. Puthillam, A., & Karandikar, S. (2020). Watching disgustedly? Game of Thrones and disgust sensitivity. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120957245

  8. Puthillam, A., Karandikar, S., & Kapoor, H. (2019). I see how you feel: How the dark triad recognizes emotions. Current Psychology, 1-8. doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00359-x

  9. Debnath, A., Phansikar, M., Puthillam, A.*, & Sengupta, P. (2016). Cross sectional analysis of gender atypical behaviours. Social Sciences International Research Journal 2(1), 378-381.

*Authors contributed equally to the work. Authorship order determined appear alphabetically

Conference Presentations

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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].

  4. 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]

  5. 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]

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

  7. Ticku, A., et al (2022, February). Pro-environmental behaviors. Poster to be presented at the 2022 SPSP Virtual Annual Convention. [Accepted]

  8. 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.

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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)

  13. 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)

  14. 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).

  15. 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)

  16. 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)

  17. 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)

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

  19. 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)

  20. 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)

  21. 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)

  22. 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.

  23. Debnath, A., Phansikar, M., Puthillam, A.*, & 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.

  24. Debnath, A., Phansikar, M., Puthillam, A.*, & 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

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

Under Review/Preprints

  1. Puthillam, A., Kapoor, H., Rezaei, S., Gurjar, S., Tagat, A., George, D., & Budhwar, Y. (2022). Does Incentivization Promote Sharing “Good” Content Online? [Preprint]

  2. Puthillam, A., Montilla Doble, L. J., Delos Santos, J. I., Elsherif, M. M., Steltenpohl, C. N., Moreau, D., … Kapoor, H. (2022). Guidelines to Improve Internationalization in Psychological Science [Preprint] (invited for resubmission)

  3. Puthillam, A., Mehta, N., Kapoor, H., Rezaei, & Lamba, N. (2022). Helpful or Not? Appraisal and Mechanisms of Prosociality in the Dark Triad [Preprint] [Preregistration].

  4. Mehta, N., Inamdar, V., Puthillam, A., Chunekar, S., Kapoor, H., Tagat, A., & Subramanyam, D. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on STEM researchers in India. Welcome Open Research awaiting peer review

  5. Puthillam, A., Mehta, N., Rezaei, S., Ticku, A., & Kapoor, H. Dutiful Citizens: Predictors of COVID-19 Policy Compliant Behavior in India. [under review at Political Psychology]

  6. Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021).They caused the pandemic! Conspiratorial blame, political beliefs, trust, and health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic Preprint

  7. Puthillam, A. (2021). Too WEIRD, Too Fast? Preprints about COVID-19 in Psychology (invited for resubmission). Preprint [invited for resubmission at Collabra: Psychology]

  8. Puthillam, A., Kapoor, H., & Karandikar, S. (2021). Beyond left and right: A scale to measure political ideology in India. Preprint

  9. Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021). I vote NOTA: Ideological Expanses of Partisanship in India. Preprint

  10. Puthillam, A. (2021). What makes you “Ew!”? Cross-National Measurement Invariance in Disgust Sensitivity. Preprint

  11. Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021). Who cares about the outgroup? Political ideology, empathy, and moral decision-making Preprint

  12. Ticku, A., Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H., (2021). Empathy across cultures: Critiquing the generalized understanding and measurement of empathy

  13. Ticku, A., Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2020). How risky is it to not wear a mask? How risky is it to not wear a mask? Moral emotions are associated with risk perception and public health behaviours during the coronavirus epidemic. Preregistration Preprint

  14. Puthillam, A. & Kapoor, H. (2021). How are you useful to me? The relationship between dark triad and perception of help in prosocial situations. Preprint

  15. Puthillam, A., Karandikar, S., & Kapoor, H. (2019). Winner Takes All (the Gossip): Conversations in the reality show “Bigg Boss.” Preprint