What’s New at Prayogshala
Sarah presented a poster on ‘Sentencing, Harm, and Severity: Do perceptions differ based on the creativity in a crime?’ at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference on June 4.
Sarah Rezaei gave a short talk on the ‘Development of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB)’ at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference on June 4 2025.
Anirudh and Poorva write about ‘Bright ideas? How context and place matter for energy savings in urban India.’ Read more here.
Hansika was quoted in the article titled ‘When Artists Advocate For Change, Who’s Really Listening?’ Read more here!
Hansika was featured on the Sawyer Podcast in the episode ‘The 2025 Creativity Conference, episode 2: Cutting-Edge Research from Top Psychologists.’ Check it out here!
Hansika will be the keynote speaker at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference, which will be held online on June 4. Read more here!
A paper titled "Financial Literacy and Inclusion in India: Evidence from Household-level Data after Demonetization," co-authored by Anchal Khandelwal, Abhishek Vajjala, and Anirudh Tagat, has been published in the Journal of Emerging Market Finance. Read more here!
Hansika delivered a Lightning Talk at MisinfoCon India 2025 on dark creativity and digital arrest scams in Bangalore.
Mei Zheng presented a poster on the paper she co-authored with Hansika, Sarah, Apoorva and James titled “Does Creativity have a Genius Bias?” at the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts Div 10 Meeting in New, Haven, Connecticut, USA. Read more about the paper here!
Hansika delivered the Daniel E. Berlyne address titled "A Spotlight on Dark Creativity" at the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts (Division 10) Meeting in New Haven, CT, USA.
Hansika presented her paper co-authored with Sarah, Apoorva, Hreem, Corinna and James titled ‘Development of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB)’ on at the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts Div 10 Meeting. Read more about the paper here!
Hansika gave a talk on her paper titled “Can Creating Misinformation Counter Its Spread?", co-authored with Apoorva, Sarah and Anirudh at the APA Division 10 Micro-Grant Program Awardee Showcase at Yale University. Read the preprint of the paper here!
Hansika was quoted in an article titled ‘Gen-Alpha is the beauty industry's newest target- but at what cost?’ Read more here!
University of South Australia put out a press release about Hansika Kapoor’s (Monk Prayogshala) and David H. Cropley’s paper titled ‘Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality.’ Read more here!
Science Daily put out a press release about Hansika Kapoor’s (Monk Prayogshala) and David H. Cropley’s paper titled ‘Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality.’ Read more here!
Anirudh, Hansika and Akshaya co-authored a paper titled “The impact of life skills education on socio-emotional development and school-related outcomes among adolescents in India.” Read more here!
Cognitive Resilience can be thought of as a person's first line of defense against Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and dementia related disorders. This resilience of the mind shows its effectiveness by mitigating the load of AD pathology on cognitive abilities. This blog talks about Cognitive Resilience from the lens of biology and psychology, listing recent findings about factors impacting Cognitive Resilience.
What does it mean to be non-inclusive and inflexible? While governments take pride in accessibility imparted by digital services, people remain hungry because of trivial bureaucratic issues. Read more to know the top-down attitude towards governing people and ways it can be fixed.
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Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Research Methodology and Statistical Reasoning
Monk Prayogshala presents a digital certificate course on Behavioral Economics.
Hansika delivered a keynote address on ‘A spotlight on dark creativity’ at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference on June 4.