What’s New at Prayogshala
Anirudh conducted a half-day session on ‘Doing Research: Practical Considerations for Field-based Research’ for faculty and doctoral researchers at the Mahatma Education Society's Night Degree College in Mumbai.’
Hansika was a guest on ‘The Science of Creativity’ podcast where she spoke about how people get good ideas to do bad things. Check it out here!
Hansika, Zarnab, and Hreem co-authored a book chapter titled “Wicked Ways: Creativity and the Dark Triad” in the volume Research Handbook on the Dark Triad. Read more here!
Nitin wrote a piece on ‘Old Magic, New Stories: Secret Histories of Witches’ for Femspec. Read more here!
Hansika co-authored a paper on how everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures. Read more here!
Zainab spoke on ‘Digital well-being: What’s not working, & how we can do better’ at the Indian School of Internet Governance (inSIG 10th Edition) at BITS Pilani, Goa.
Zainab spoke on ‘Digital Resilience through Digital Literacy’ at the 8th Youth IGF at BITS Pilani KK Birla, Goa, on September 18th.
Hansika wrote about how personalized disinformation is another dark, creative application of technology. Read more here!
Hansika and Anirudh co-authored a paper titled ‘The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data.’ Read more here!
Hansika was featured in the podcast "Brain for Business” hosted by Laurence Knell. Check it out here!
Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘Why Gen Z is seeking comfort in bathrooms.’ Read more here!
Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘FRND wants to connect lonely Indians across small towns. Will it work?’ Read more here!
Hansika was featured in a 2-episode series of the ‘Shift* Happens! An Inspira Series’ by Inspira Counselling. Check it out here!
Our planet is in a crisis but we don’t act towards it. It’s not that we don’t care - it’s called Eco-fatigue. This is driven by various cognitive biases. In this blog, I explore 4 such biases - Present Bias, Status Quo Bias, Moral Licensing and Choice Overload. Understanding these biases is really important for us to make climate change action easier rather than difficult.
We know our common fate of death; yet we strive for meaning in a universe that might not have any. To manage the immense terror that arises when we are reminded of our impermanence, we seek to make meaning that protects our illusion of permanence from cracking, thus helping us deal with existential crises or death anxiety.
This webinar series, sponsored by the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), aims to critically reimagine the approach toward cross-cultural research conducted in psychology and allied disciplines. Held online across four weekends (Jan-Feb 2026), we have four experts joining us to help decolonise cross-cultural research.
Don't have time to attend a workshop at Prayogshala? Join our Digital Courses instead!
Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Research Methodology and Statistical Reasoning
Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Behavioral Economics.

Zainab and Nitin presented their paper ‘Invisible Burdens: How Metropolitan Density Offloads Emissions onto Small Towns’ at the COIN 2025 (CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY); Beyond New Urbanism? Environment, Sustainability and the Small Towns in India.