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Join Dr. Sunil Bhatia on 1 Feb 2026 (Sun) for an engaging discussion on moving research beyond Western frameworks toward grounded, decolonial approaches. 🕘9:30 AM IST | 11:00 PM EST 🎓Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Series (IACCP) Register here: buff.ly/3VpzbfK

We’re now on Bluesky! 🚀 Follow Monk Prayogshala for research updates, events, and more. Not on Bluesky yet? Sign up today and follow our work! Link: bsky.app/profile/monk... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

💭 Join us for an Instagram Live Q&A with T Roy and get clarity on what the Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series offers, how to register, and what to expect from the sessions. 🗓 24 January | ⏰ 4 PM onwards 📍 Live on Instagram: buff.ly/mTHf2T9

Welcome to Researcher Rant!🎉 We’re sharing some of the most fun, relatable, and “why is this so accurate?” responses from fellow researchers. 👀 Keep an eye on our Instagram Stories for the question sticker and drop your thoughts!🧠😌 Because behind every paper is a person with opinions. Lots of them.

📌 #BlogAlert Read Samata Mhaskar’s “How Digital Payments Changed India’s Kirana Stores” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2026/1/... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

💭 Join us for an Instagram Live Q&A with T Roy and get clarity on what the Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series offers, how to register, and what to expect from the sessions. 🗓 24 January | ⏰ 4 PM onwards 📍 Live on Instagram: www.instagram.com/monkprayogsh...

📢 Netra Damani and Ishita Narvekar wrote an article titled Balancing Growth and Stability: MSMEs as Fiscal Drivers for MEDC Economics Digest 2026! 📖 Read it here: www.medcindia.com/economic-dig... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

@inhouseconomist.bsky.social shares his take on Effects of Zero Price and Reciprocity on Online Consumer Reviews authored by Xian. Zhang, and the answer isn’t as straightforward as you might think. Read the full study here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MonkPrayogshala #BehavioralScience

🌏 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series Sponsored by IACCP, this 4-Saturday online series (Jan 24 – Feb 14, 2026) invites participants to critically reimagine approaches to cross-cultural research. Register here: buff.ly/mmeGMQM

Why Monk Prayogshala's #IRB? Check out to know more about our Institutional Review board and to #apply, visit: buff.ly/t508fyo Support independent academic research in India! Your donations are now eligible for 50% tax exemption under Section 80G. Donate now: buff.ly/KkSYK3c

📌#BlogAlert Read Kaavya Shah’s “Parasocial Grief: When Mourning Is Personal—even if You’ll Never Meet Them” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2026/1/... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

🌏 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series Sponsored by IACCP, this 4-Saturday online series (Jan 24 – Feb 14, 2026) invites participants to critically reimagine approaches to cross-cultural research. Register here: buff.ly/mmeGMQM

🌍In this episode of Research Explained in Minutes, Netra Damani, Jr. Research Assistant in Economics at Monk Prayogshala, unpacks how a gravity model helps explain the impact of climate stress on intra-regional migration across Sub-Saharan Africa. ▶️ Watch now: youtu.be/E2nTv1GfK-c

In this episode of Research Explained in Minutes, Netra Damani breaks down a compelling working paper that uses a gravity model to study how climate stress influences intra-regional migration across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🎥 Releasing on 3rd January 2025 Subscribe now: buff.ly/bemJNAL

Nitin S reflects on India’s push for simultaneous elections—an idea that may streamline governance but risks muting the diverse regional voices that give Indian democracy its strength. In a nation built on diversity, uniformity could cost us our core. Link: doingsociology.org/2025/09/28/u...

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✨ 2025 at Monk Prayogshala: Research that reached further, trained deeper, and impacted wider. 🔎 Dive into our 2025 milestones and know more about our team and work -https://www.monkprayogshala.in/

Join Dr. Sakshi Ghai on 24 Jan 2026 (Sat) to explore how WEIRD samples shape behavioural science—and why this matters for inclusive research. 🕓 4 PM IST | 10:30 AM GMT 🎓 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series (IACCP) Register here: buff.ly/3VpzbfK

📌#BlogAlert Read Ankita Lalwani’s “Is early exposure making kids smarter or stealing their growth?” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2025/12... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

✨ 2025 at Monk Prayogshala: Research that reached further, trained deeper, and impacted wider. Dive into our 2025 milestones and know more about our team and work -https://buff.ly/KDaCOIn

🌏 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series Sponsored by IACCP, this 4-Saturday online series (Jan 24 – Feb 14, 2026) invites participants to critically reimagine approaches to cross-cultural research. 👉 Register here: buff.ly/mmeGMQM

📣 #callforparticipants How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality? Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each! Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9

🎄✨ Season’s greetings from Monk Prayogshala! ✨🎄 Wishing you a festive season filled with curious questions, thoughtful analyses, meaningful insights—and plenty of coffee to power the research ☕📊 🔗 Know more about our work & team: buff.ly/KDaCOIn #MerryChristmas #ResearchLife

@inhouseconomist.bsky.social presented his paper, EnergyBot: Behavioural interventions to reduce peak-time energy demand in India, co-authored with Deepanshu Jagga, Yiwei Zhang, and Saksham Singh, at the Behavioural Research in Economics Workshop (BREW–ESA) held at MDI Gurgaon from 15–17 Dec, 2025.

🧠Netra Damani shares her take on ‘Increasing Investor Engagement with Personalised Behavioural Interventions’ — an Oxford Risk article exploring how personalised, emotionally intelligent advice boosts investor confidence more than clarity alone. 🔗 Link: www.oxfordrisk.com/blog-posts/i...

Join Arathy Puthillam on 14th Feb 2026 (Sat) as she unpacks how institutional structures shape access, publishing, and funding. 🕣Time: 8:30 AM IST (7 PM PST) 🎓Part of the Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series, sponsored by IACCP. Register here: www.monkprayogshala.in/cross-cultur...

📢#hiringalert Here's an amazing opportunity to work on #sociology #research with us! Join us as a #Researchaffiliate! Apply now! Link: buff.ly/t8uSjPr

Join Shannon Fernandes on 7th Feb 2026 (Sat) for a deep dive into how language, translation, and measurement tools shape cross-cultural research. 🕓 Time: 4 PM IST 🎓 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series, sponsored by IACCP. 👉 Register here: www.monkprayogshala.in/cross-cultur...

📌 #BlogAlert Read Sanjana Guruprasad’s “The Feminine Urge to Earn” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2025/12... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! Your donations are now eligible for 50% tax exemption under section 80G. 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

🎄✨ Season’s greetings from Monk Prayogshala! ✨🎄 Wishing you a festive season filled with curious questions, thoughtful analyses, meaningful insights—and plenty of coffee to power the research ☕📊 🔗 Know more about our work & team: www.monkprayogshala.in #MerryChristmas #ResearchLife

Join Dr. Sunil Bhatia on 1 Feb 2026 (Sun) for an engaging discussion on moving research beyond Western frameworks toward grounded, decolonial approaches. 🕘 9:30 AM IST | 11:00 PM EST 🎓 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Series (IACCP) Register here: www.monkprayogshala.in/cross-cultur...

🎄✨ Season’s greetings from Monk Prayogshala! ✨🎄 Wishing you a festive season filled with curious questions, thoughtful analyses, meaningful insights—and plenty of coffee to power the research ☕📊 🔗 Know more about our work & team: www.monkprayogshala.in #MerryChristmas #ResearchLife

✨ 2025 at Monk Prayogshala: Research that reached further, trained deeper, and impacted wider. Every dataset, every workshop, every publication tells the story of a year spent advancing academic research in India. 🔎 Know more about our team and work -https://www.monkprayogshala.in/

Apoorva Thakur reflects on new research revealing how emotional responses to karma depend on fairness—when we’re wronged, justice feels satisfying, but only when it’s our justice. Link: phys.org/news/2025-09...

Zainab Khambaty and Nitin S. presented their paper “Invisible Burdens: How Metropolitan Density Offloads Emissions onto Small Towns” at COIN 2025 The conference was conducted by NIT Meghalaya in collaboration with National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

Join Dr. Sakshi Ghai on 24 Jan 2026 (Sat) to explore how WEIRD samples shape behavioural science—and why this matters for inclusive research. 🕓 4 PM IST | 10:30 AM GMT 🎓 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series (IACCP) Register here: www.monkprayogshala.in/cross-cultur...

🎄✨ Season’s greetings from Monk Prayogshala! ✨🎄 Wishing you a festive season filled with curious questions, thoughtful analyses, meaningful insights—and plenty of coffee to power the research ☕📊 🔗 Know more about our work & team: www.monkprayogshala.in #MonkPrayogshala

Why Monk Prayogshala's #IRB? Check out to know more about our Institutional Review board and to #apply, visit: buff.ly/t508fyo Support independent academic research in India! Your donations are now eligible for 50% tax exemption under Section 80G. Donate now: buff.ly/KkSYK3c

🌏 Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series Sponsored by IACCP, this 4-Saturday online series (Jan 24 – Feb 14, 2026) invites participants to critically reimagine approaches to cross-cultural research. Register here: buff.ly/mmeGMQM

📌 #BlogAlert Read Netra Damani’s “The Psychology of Eco-Fatigue” in this week’s blog! Link: www.monkprayogshala.in/blog/2025/12... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! Your donations are now eligible for 50% tax exemption under section 80G. 🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV

📢 Hansika Kapoor was quoted in an article titled Fast Content Is Leaving Us Famished, published on PressReader. Read it here:https://www.pressreader.com/india/mint-chennai/20251213/281599541830270 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

🧩 T. Roy reflects on how masking—often seen as a survival strategy for autistic individuals—can come with hidden costs. A recent Medical Xpress piece highlights that concealing one’s true self fuels identity and psychological distress. 🔗 Link: medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

✨ 2025 at Monk Prayogshala: Research that reached further, trained deeper, and impacted wider. Every dataset, every workshop, every publication tells the story of a year spent advancing academic research in India. 🔎Know more about our team and work through the link in bio!

Monk Prayogshala reaches 1000 followers on Instagram! 🎉 Thank you for being part of our journey in advancing academic research. 📚✨ Here’s to growing together — towards a more research-driven India! 💡 Not connected yet? Follow us here: www.instagram.com/monkprayogsh... #MonkPrayogshala

📢#hiringalert Here's an amazing opportunity to work on #sociology #research with us! Join us as a #Researchaffiliate! Apply now! Link: buff.ly/t8uSjPr

🌏Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Psychology Webinar Series Sponsored by IACCP, this 4-Saturday online series (Jan 24 – Feb 14, 2026) invites participants to critically reimagine approaches to cross-cultural research. Register here: buff.ly/mmeGMQM

📢 Zainab Khambaty wrote an article titled Archives, Access, and Agency for Femspec! Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/archive... 💛 Support independent academic research in India! 🔗 Donate now: buff.ly/L4fIvcx

Dr. Anirudh Tagat, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala, conducted an engaging half-day online session on “Doing Research: Practical Considerations for Field-Based Research” for the faculty and doctoral researchers of Mahatma Education Society’s Night Degree College. @inhouseconomist.bsky.social

📣 #callforparticipants How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality? Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each! Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9