Narayanan Srinivasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 183051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Narayanan Srinivasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Narayanan |
| FAMILY NAME | Srinivasan |
| SIGNATURE | SRINIVASAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Allahabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5342-0381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia
Bilingualism delays the onset of dementia symptoms and contributes to cognitive reserve. However, the neural basis of this mechanism remains elusive. The few studies that have investigated neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve and bilingualism have focused on Alzheimer’s disease. This study investigated the neural basis of cognitive reserve among persons with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using regional brain volumes. Sixty-eight persons with FT…
Present-Focused Behavior as a Rational Adaptation to Precarity
Inter-temporal impulsivity has been implicated in several theoretical explanations of the self-reinforcing nature of low socioeconomic status (SES). However, how exactly this interaction transpires is yet to be identified. We hypothesize that impulsivity arises from planning failures due to unpredictable resource demands, and people learn to adapt to this by being present-focused. We tested this hypothesis across three studies using a novel parad…
Combination and Differentiation Theories of Categorization
Differentiation and Combination theories make different predictions about the order in which information is processed during categorization. Differentiation theory posits that holistic processing of a stimulus occurs before individual features are processed. According to Differentiation theory, overall similarity-based categorization is faster and less effortful compared to unidimensional categorization. In contrast, Combination theory posits tha…
Temporal correspondence in perceptual organization
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
Affective film dataset from India (Afdi)
A wrinkle in and of time
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals ( N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathog…
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns triggered worldwide changes in the daily routines of human experience. The Blursday database provides repeated measures of subjective time and related processes from participants in nine countries tested on 14 questionnaires and 15 behavioural tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2,840 participants completed at least one task, and 439 participants completed all tasks in the first session. T…
Hedonic impacts of gains versus losses of time
A large part of our daily activities involves judging the psychological value of time. This study tested a previously less explored aspect about whether people are loss averse for time - i.e. do losses of time loom larger than corresponding gains? Using comparative hedonic judgments, the impact of prospective gains versus losses of time was examined for common contexts like waiting and local travel based on suggestions by typical navigation apps.…
Intended emotions influence intentional binding with emotional faces
Gradedness of visual awareness depends on attentional scope
Attentional blink with emotional faces depends on emotional expressions
Contribution of emotional valence and arousal to attentional processing over time is not fully understood. We employed a rapid serial visual paradigm (RSVP) in three experiments to investigate the role of valence and arousal. In three experiments, participants had to identify the expression of the two targets (experiment 1 - happy and angry; experiment 2 - angry and surprise; experiment 3 - happy and surprise) presented among neutral upright face…
Multi-scale control influences sense of agency
What Do National Flags Stand for? An Exploration of Associations Across 11 Countries
We examined the concepts and emotions people associate with their national flag, and how these associations are related to nationalism and patriotism across 11 countries. Factor analyses indicated that the structures of associations differed across countries in ways that reflect their idiosyncratic historical developments. Positive emotions and egalitarian concepts were associated with national flags across countries. However, notable differences…
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Significance Pathogens, and antipathogen behavioral strategies, affect myriad aspects of human behavior. Recent findings suggest that antipathogen strategies relate to political attitudes, with more ideologically conservative individuals reporting more disgust toward pathogen cues, and with higher parasite stress nations being, on average, more conservative. However, no research has yet adjudicated between two theoretical accounts proposed to exp…
How Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity
A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group‐relevant collective events increases one's investment in such group identities. However, little empirical research explicitly addresses this or the processes involved. We investigated these issues in a longitudinal questio…
Differential Effects of Irrelevant Emotional Context on Regret and Rejoice
Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering
Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data ( N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than befor…
Efficacy and well‐being in rural north India
Identifying with a group can contribute to a sense of well‐being. The mechanisms involved are diverse: social identification with a group can impact individuals' beliefs about issues such as their connections with others, the availability of social support, the meaningfulness of existence, and the continuity of their identity. Yet, there seems to be a common theme to these mechanisms: identification with a group encourages the belief that one can…
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the International Affective Picture System on an Indian Sample
Emotion perception is mediated by spatial frequency content
Spatial frequencies have been shown to play an important role in face identification, but very few studies have investigated the role of spatial frequency content in identifying different emotions. In the present study we investigated the role of spatial frequency in identifying happy and sad facial expressions. Two experiments were conducted to investigate (a) the role of specific spatial frequency content in emotion identification, and (b) hemi…
Attribute preference and selection in multi-attribute decision making
Emotion-attention interactions in recognition memory for distractor faces
Effective filtering of distractor information has been shown to be dependent on perceptual load. Given the salience of emotional information and the presence of emotion-attention interactions, we wanted to explore the recognition memory for emotional distractors especially as a function of focused attention and distributed attention by manipulating load and the spatial spread of attention. We performed two experiments to study emotion-attention i…
Types of attention matter for awareness
How Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity
A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group‐relevant collective events increases one's investment in such group identities. However, little empirical research explicitly addresses this or the processes involved. We investigated these issues in a longitudinal questio…
Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering
Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data ( N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than befor…
What Do National Flags Stand for? An Exploration of Associations Across 11 Countries
We examined the concepts and emotions people associate with their national flag, and how these associations are related to nationalism and patriotism across 11 countries. Factor analyses indicated that the structures of associations differed across countries in ways that reflect their idiosyncratic historical developments. Positive emotions and egalitarian concepts were associated with national flags across countries. However, notable differences…
Efficacy and well‐being in rural north India
Identifying with a group can contribute to a sense of well‐being. The mechanisms involved are diverse: social identification with a group can impact individuals' beliefs about issues such as their connections with others, the availability of social support, the meaningfulness of existence, and the continuity of their identity. Yet, there seems to be a common theme to these mechanisms: identification with a group encourages the belief that one can…
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals ( N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathog…
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns triggered worldwide changes in the daily routines of human experience. The Blursday database provides repeated measures of subjective time and related processes from participants in nine countries tested on 14 questionnaires and 15 behavioural tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2,840 participants completed at least one task, and 439 participants completed all tasks in the first session. T…
Types of attention matter for awareness
Attribute preference and selection in multi-attribute decision making
Emotion-attention interactions in recognition memory for distractor faces
Effective filtering of distractor information has been shown to be dependent on perceptual load. Given the salience of emotional information and the presence of emotion-attention interactions, we wanted to explore the recognition memory for emotional distractors especially as a function of focused attention and distributed attention by manipulating load and the spatial spread of attention. We performed two experiments to study emotion-attention i…
Emotion perception is mediated by spatial frequency content
Spatial frequencies have been shown to play an important role in face identification, but very few studies have investigated the role of spatial frequency content in identifying different emotions. In the present study we investigated the role of spatial frequency in identifying happy and sad facial expressions. Two experiments were conducted to investigate (a) the role of specific spatial frequency content in emotion identification, and (b) hemi…
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the International Affective Picture System on an Indian Sample
Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering
Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data ( N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than befor…
Efficacy and well‐being in rural north India
Identifying with a group can contribute to a sense of well‐being. The mechanisms involved are diverse: social identification with a group can impact individuals' beliefs about issues such as their connections with others, the availability of social support, the meaningfulness of existence, and the continuity of their identity. Yet, there seems to be a common theme to these mechanisms: identification with a group encourages the belief that one can…
Differential Effects of Irrelevant Emotional Context on Regret and Rejoice
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Significance Pathogens, and antipathogen behavioral strategies, affect myriad aspects of human behavior. Recent findings suggest that antipathogen strategies relate to political attitudes, with more ideologically conservative individuals reporting more disgust toward pathogen cues, and with higher parasite stress nations being, on average, more conservative. However, no research has yet adjudicated between two theoretical accounts proposed to exp…
How Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity
A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group‐relevant collective events increases one's investment in such group identities. However, little empirical research explicitly addresses this or the processes involved. We investigated these issues in a longitudinal questio…
Multi-scale control influences sense of agency
What Do National Flags Stand for? An Exploration of Associations Across 11 Countries
We examined the concepts and emotions people associate with their national flag, and how these associations are related to nationalism and patriotism across 11 countries. Factor analyses indicated that the structures of associations differed across countries in ways that reflect their idiosyncratic historical developments. Positive emotions and egalitarian concepts were associated with national flags across countries. However, notable differences…
Attentional blink with emotional faces depends on emotional expressions
Contribution of emotional valence and arousal to attentional processing over time is not fully understood. We employed a rapid serial visual paradigm (RSVP) in three experiments to investigate the role of valence and arousal. In three experiments, participants had to identify the expression of the two targets (experiment 1 - happy and angry; experiment 2 - angry and surprise; experiment 3 - happy and surprise) presented among neutral upright face…
Hedonic impacts of gains versus losses of time
A large part of our daily activities involves judging the psychological value of time. This study tested a previously less explored aspect about whether people are loss averse for time - i.e. do losses of time loom larger than corresponding gains? Using comparative hedonic judgments, the impact of prospective gains versus losses of time was examined for common contexts like waiting and local travel based on suggestions by typical navigation apps.…
Intended emotions influence intentional binding with emotional faces
Gradedness of visual awareness depends on attentional scope
A wrinkle in and of time
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals ( N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathog…
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns triggered worldwide changes in the daily routines of human experience. The Blursday database provides repeated measures of subjective time and related processes from participants in nine countries tested on 14 questionnaires and 15 behavioural tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2,840 participants completed at least one task, and 439 participants completed all tasks in the first session. T…
Affective film dataset from India (Afdi)
Temporal correspondence in perceptual organization
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
Present-Focused Behavior as a Rational Adaptation to Precarity
Inter-temporal impulsivity has been implicated in several theoretical explanations of the self-reinforcing nature of low socioeconomic status (SES). However, how exactly this interaction transpires is yet to be identified. We hypothesize that impulsivity arises from planning failures due to unpredictable resource demands, and people learn to adapt to this by being present-focused. We tested this hypothesis across three studies using a novel parad…
Combination and Differentiation Theories of Categorization
Differentiation and Combination theories make different predictions about the order in which information is processed during categorization. Differentiation theory posits that holistic processing of a stimulus occurs before individual features are processed. According to Differentiation theory, overall similarity-based categorization is faster and less effortful compared to unidimensional categorization. In contrast, Combination theory posits tha…
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia
Bilingualism delays the onset of dementia symptoms and contributes to cognitive reserve. However, the neural basis of this mechanism remains elusive. The few studies that have investigated neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve and bilingualism have focused on Alzheimer’s disease. This study investigated the neural basis of cognitive reserve among persons with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using regional brain volumes. Sixty-eight persons with FT…
Psychology (25 works) · Cognitive psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Perception (10 works) · Neuroscience (9 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works)