A5002608001- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Mind wandering and attention
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Media Influence and Politics
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Media and Politics
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
University of Connecticut
2020-2025
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2016-2018
Abstract Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures domains. In a preregistered study of 57 countries (using convenience samples 22,863 students non-students), we measured perceptions the appropriateness various violation cooperative atypical social behaviors. Our findings highlight both cultural universals variation. We find universal negative relation...
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change routines and livelihoods all around the world. This public health crisis amplified a number of systemic inequalities that led to populations needing grapple with universally difficult truths. Yet some individuals, firms, countries displayed resilient creative responses coping pressing demands on healthcare basic sanity. Past work has suggested engaging acts can be adaptive response changing environment. Therefore, purpose this paper is...
The dark side of creativity entails using original thought to meet a selfish, negative, or evil goal, with without the deliberate intent harm others. Recent empirical advances have studied behavioral correlates such creativity, including associations aggression, deception, and subclinical psychopathy. time, therefore, seems apt propose theoretical framework for creativity’s development manifestation. This article outlines AMORAL model which traces creative action from its Antecedents...
The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether norms also changed. Specifically, this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which generally have strong norms), specific (e.g. stealing, hand washing), about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before the early stages following COVID-19. Using variation disease intensity, shed light on mechanisms predicting changes norm...
This study associates the subclinical dark triad (DT) of personality—narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, their composite—with negative creativity. An instrument developed by author assessed likelihood engaging in creativity, where creativity was defined as an act that is original useful to individual. The strength association between positivity, negativity via Implicit Association Test. DT scales, Creativity measure, IAT were administered 51 Indian adults (M age = 22.3 years, 27...
Abstract Creativity, and more recently dark creativity, have yet to be studied in relation moral foundations, especially against the background of traits. This study identified foundations that predicted particularly malevolent after accounting for Dark Triad/Tetrad Data ( N = 529, M age 20.10 years, SD 4.55) on self‐reported personality, were collected. Results indicated lower concerns binding (loyalty, authority, purity) explained creativity. In contrast, higher concern individualizing...
The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS; Kaufman, J. C. (2012). Counting the muses: Development domains creativity scale (K-DOCS). Psychology Aesthetics, Creativity, and Arts, 6(4), 298-308. doi:10.1037/a0029751) is a self-report assessment five creative domains: Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Scientific, Artistic. This investigation was designed to reassess factor structure K-DOCS, examine its measurement invariance across men women, develop norms domains. Data on 22,013 American...
ABSTRACT Anxiety‐driven counterfactual thinking can be a slippery slope. Building on the premise that both positive and negative emotions impact creativity, present study examines how trait anxiety, optimism, other mental health factors like therapy experience shape outputs in divergent (DT) tasks. Using an online sample ( N = 647), introduces DT tasks, where participants are prompted to respond situation either go their favor (positive) or against it (negative). Participants generated more...
The Magic Bus India Foundation (MBIF) Life Skills program, known as the Childhood to Livelihood (C2L) aims build life skills among adolescents aged 11 15 years. This three-year program focuses on education, gender equality, and socio-emotional development. study evaluates both short-term long-term impacts of school-related outcomes skills, providing insights into its effectiveness across multiple sites in India. Data were collated from five with a pre-post cohort research design. Baseline...
Misinformation continues to pose a challenge information integrity, making it critical toidentify novel ways reduce its spread. Building on previous intervention studies, weinvestigated the role of creating misleading headlines as an inoculation strategy improvesubsequent truth discernment in online mixed (pre-post within and between-groups) preregistereddesign. Indian participants (N = 646, 388 men, 255 women, Mage 30.46 years) wereassigned one three conditions: misinformation (active...
Although the dark side of creativity and negative are shaping into legitimate subconstructs, measures to assess same remain be validated. To meet this goal, two studies assessed convergent, predictive, criterion-related validities valence-inclusive measures. One measure self-report endorsement social creativity, other was an Alternate Uses Test (AUT) assessing generation nonsocial creativity. Participants (N = 129, 88 women, Mage 25.09 years, SD 10.03) completed three Dark Triad personality...
Conversations about the internationalization of psychological science have occurred over a few decades with very little progress. Previous work shows up to 95% participants in mainstream journal studies are from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) nations. Similarly, large proportion authors based North America. This imbalance is well-documented across range subfields psychology, yet specific steps and best practices bridge publication data gaps world regions still...
Self-reported dark creativity has been related to lower concerns for all moral foundations, especially among those with personality traits. The present study aimed extend these findings using real-world divergent thinking tasks ethical and unethical instructions. Data (N = 1346, males 388, females 840, Mage 20.93, SD 5.48) were collected on creative performance, traits, including trait deceptiveness. Divergent responses coded fluency, flexibility, creativity, goal-directedness, deception,...
Abstract Conversations about the internationalization of psychological sciences have occurred over a few decades with very little progress. Previous work shows up to 95% participants in studies published mainstream journals are from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic nations. Similarly, large proportion authors based North America. This imbalance is well‐documented across range subfields psychology, yet specific steps and best practices bridge publication data gaps world...
Classic findings from psychology and the behavioural sciences are increasingly being revisited. Methodological technological advances provide opportunities to replicate studies across a wide range of countries settings investigate whether these universally applicable, limited specific countries, or vary in magnitude depending on settings. Researchers around world connect revisit such collaboratively, adapt original design Zeitgeist, integrate new knowledge improve statistical analyses,...
Investigating how creativity can be used for nefarious purposes is slowly gaining traction. In general, dark likely to emerge in open-ended contexts where rules reinterpreted, by actors who display cognitive and moral flexibility. The current paper chronicles my past work this domain, both empirical theoretical, emphasizing the importance of understanding nuances creative intent behavior. If construct misunderstood, or worse, left unacknowledged academics, continue lead widespread harm...
Self-reported dark creativity has been related to lower concerns for all moral foundations, especially among those with personality traits. The present study aimed extend these findings using real-world divergent thinking tasks ethical and unethical instructions. Data (N = 1346, males 388, females 840, Mage 20.93, SD 5.48) were collected on creative performance, traits, including trait deceptiveness. Divergent responses coded fluency, flexibility, creativity, goal-directedness, deception,...
When someone violates a social norm, others may think that some sanction would be appropriate. We examine how the experience of emotions like anger and disgust relate to judged appropriateness sanctions, in pre-registered analysis data from large-scale study 56 societies. Across world, we find individuals who over norm violation are more likely endorse confrontation, ostracism and, smaller extent, gossip. Moreover, is consistently strongest predictor judgments compared other emotions....
In a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, several countries implemented lockdown procedures varying degrees. This article sought examine extent which country-level strictness, as measured by Government Response Stringency Index (2020), moderated relationship between certain cultural dimensions and estimates national innovation. Data on 84 were collated for Hofstede’s (2015), from Global Innovation (2020). Owing robust relationships innovation uncertainty avoidance, power distance,...