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🏅 Can sports help us understand economic behavior? Netra Damani shares her take on how real-world sports settings can offer unique insights into behavioral economics. 🔗 Link: evidentiauniversity.com/blogs/econom... #BehaviouralEconomics #SportsAndEconomics #DecisionMaking #Fairness

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Is nostalgia Gen Z’s way of standing out? @sarahrezaei.bsky.social shares her take on 'Why Gen Z Is Resurrecting the 1990s' — exploring how nostalgia today isn’t always escape; sometimes, it’s aesthetic strategy. Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

📌#BlogAlert Read Rujula Joshi's “The Bleeding Economy: When Periods Cost Trillions” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2025/11... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

📢 Nitin S wrote an article titled Old Magic, New Stories: Secret Histories of Witches for Femspec! Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/old-mag... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️ Join us on 22nd November, 2025! Register as a participant here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm #KeynoteSpeaker #SocialSciences #Research #Psychology #Seminar2025

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Ishani Kadu reflects on how everyday practices—like using the toilet—are shaped by rigid social hierarchies. Her piece uncovers how caste privilege doesn’t shield women from patriarchal norms, urging us to rethink what empowerment really means. 🔗 Link: doingsociology.org/2025/09/24/e...

Can Creating Misinformation Enable Its Discernment? 🧠✨ In this episode, Apoorva Thakur presents insights from her latest research on the psychology of misinformation. 🔗 Link to watch: youtu.be/ccQpTBMdj5s

#PublicationAlert Hansika Kapoor was a co-author in a new paper titled "Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures", led by Erikkson et al. (2025), now published in Communications Psychology! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🧠 In this episode of Research Explained in Minutes, Apoorva Thakur unpacks a fascinating study exploring whether generating misinformation can improve our ability to recognize it. 🎥 Releasing on 29th October 2025! Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@MonkPrayogs...

📌#BlogAlert Read Alifa Vakil's “Why We Crave Closure” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2025/10... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! Your donations are now eligible for 50% tax exemption under section 80G. 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

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🚨 Submission Deadline Extended! Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Seminar in the Social Sciences is still accepting submissions till 25th October 2025, 11:59 PM IST! Share your research, gain critical feedback, and be part of a vibrant academic community. register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm

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🧠 Can rivalry fuel transformation, not tension? Shakshi Ganesh shares her take on ‘Sinner and Alcaraz’s Rivalry Is Redefining Greatness’ — a New York Times piece that highlights how mutual respect in competition can drive growth, not just glory. 🔗 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...

📢 T. Roy wrote an article titled Sexual and Gender Minority Stress Across Borders for Psychology Today! Read it here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/non-... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

🚨 Submission Deadline Extended! Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Seminar in the Social Sciences is still accepting submissions till 25th October 2025, 11:59 PM IST! Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm

📌#BlogAlert Read Aastha Shah's “Fathers and Mental Health: The Silent Struggle” in this week’s blog! Link: buff.ly/wXHjncz 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

🚨Submission Deadline Extended! Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Seminar in the Social Sciences is still accepting submissions till 25th October 2025, 11:59 PM IST! Presenters and participants can register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm

🧠 Abhishek Vajjala shares his take on ‘Defaults change choices, not minds’ — a recent paper that compares the power of default nudges with brief educational boosts in shaping both behavior and belief. 🔗Link: buff.ly/VNjrA8R

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📢Hansika Kapoor wrote a blog reviewing Episode 1 of Black Mirror Season 7, titled Subscribe to Survive, for FEMSPEC! Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/black-m...

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📌#BlogAlert Read Aastha Shah's “Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: Psychology of Silence Across Cultures” in this week’s blog! Link: buff.ly/3YnjXhZ 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

Are we really willing to pay more for less? 🛋️✨ In this video, @sarahrezaei.bsky.social unpacks our psychological attitudes toward minimalist aesthetics—why simplicity might feel more valuable. ▶ Link to watch: youtu.be/SvmcDe4qANM

🧠Is attention really disappearing—or just evolving? T. Roy shares their take on ‘Eight seconds and dropping? How to make the most of short attention spans’, highlighting motivation as the key driver behind sustained attention. 🔗Link: phys.org/news/2025-09...

Willing to pay more for less? 💸 Discover how consumer attitudes shift when it comes to minimalist design choices. Is less really more? Watch the full video by Sarah Rezaei on our official YouTube channel. 📅 Releasing on 11th October 2025 📺 Subscribe: www.youtube.com/@MonkPrayogs...

Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️ Join us on 22nd November, 2025! Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm #KeynoteSpeaker #SocialSciences #Research #Psychology #Seminar2025

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💬 “What really makes a country a country?” Nitin S shares his take on Understanding Social Construction: What Makes a Country a Country? 🔗 Read here: buff.ly/KEx7AmA #SocialConstruction #WhoBelongs #NationhoodDebate #EverydaySociology #CriticalThinking

📌#BlogAlert Read Sharmila Bommadevara’s “Credit Where It’s Due: Caste Bias in Microfinance Institutions” in this week’s blog! Link: buff.ly/scmjXNq 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

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📢 #PublicationAlert Hansika Kapoor and @inhouseconomist.bsky.social co-author a new paper "The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data" (2025), now published in The Journal of Creative Behavior! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️ Join us on 22nd November, 2025! Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm

🧠Apoorva Thakur shares her take on 'Political Polar Opposites May Be More Alike Than We Think' — an APA press release that explores how people on extreme ends of the political spectrum show surprisingly similar brain responses to political content. Link- buff.ly/S8thvGq

📌#BlogAlert Read Ayushi Bhandari’s “To Be Seen is to Be Cared for, and To Be Cared for is To Be Documented” in this week’s blog! Link: buff.ly/2vfK1qx 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

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What could go wrong? Anxiety fuels, but optimism buffers negative counterfactual divergent thinking 🧠💬 In this video, Hansika Kapoor breaks down findings from her study on how anxiety and optimism shape counterfactual divergent thinking. ▶ Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3y...

Zainab Khambaty delivered a lightning talk on “Digital Well-being: What’s Not Working, & How We Can Do Better” at the 10th Edition of the Indian School of Internet Governance (inSIG), held at BITS Pilani, Goa. #inSIG10 #InternetGovernance #DigitalWellbeing #BITSGoa

Zainab Khambaty presented a lightning talk on “Digital Resilience through Digital Literacy” at the 8th Youth IGF, held at BITS Pilani KK Birla Campus, Goa on September 18th. #YouthIGF #DigitalResilience #DigitalLiteracy #InternetGovernance #BITSGoa

Muskan Soni reflects on a powerful study challenging Western and neoliberal ideas of women’s empowerment in rural India.🌾✊🏽 🔗 Read “Good but Not for Us” in the Journal of Social Issues. Link:https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.70020?af=R

What could go wrong? Anxiety fuels, but optimism buffers negative counterfactual divergent thinking 😰✨ Watch the full video by Hansika Kapoor (Research Author, Psychology) on our official Youtube channel. Releasing on: 26th September 2025 Subscribe: www.youtube.com/@MonkPrayogs...