Balbir Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3870292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Balbir Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Balbir |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3120-1791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can a Single Cue Reduce Bias
Many companies simplify information to ease human decision-making. They assume if the available information is less ambiguous, judgments will be less biased. Prior literature suggests when multiple decision-relevant cues are available, perceivers differentially weigh cues to justify biased decisions. Therefore, if a perceiver has access to only one cue, bias may be reduced. In three studies, participants made several selection decisions. We manip…
Dissecting cross-category recognition
Seed > Root
The mental representation of ingroup and outgroup faces
Ethnicity critically impacts perceivers' ability to individuate and recognize faces. Valentine (1991) proposed a face space model in part to account for these effects, and although it has received significant attention, basic questions derived from that model have yet to be satisfactorily tested. Across three large-scale studies, over 10,000 human participants provided similarity judgments of pairs of faces. All studies used a full ingroup-outgro…
Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross‐Race Recognition Deficit
The cross‐race recognition deficit (CRD) involves poorer recognition of faces perceived as cross‐race compared to faces perceived as the same race. In this literature, research has examined social and perceptual encoding in the CRD separately. Recent research comparing these strategies shows that encoding faces based on social information (personality traits) enhances face recognition relative to encoding faces based on perceptual information (fa…
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces
Researchers have used eye-tracking measures to explore the relationship between face encoding and recognition, including the impact of ethnicity on this relationship. Previous studies offer a variety of conflicting conclusions. This confusion may stem from misestimation of the relationship between encoding and recognition. First, most previous models fail to account for the structure of eye-tracking data, potentially falling prey to Simpson's par…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Zoonosis–Why we should reconsider “What's in a name?”
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 13 February 2023Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1133330
One Health activities to reinforce intersectoral coordination at local levels in India
India's dense human and animal populations, agricultural economy, changing environment, and social dynamics support conditions for emergence/re-emergence of zoonotic diseases that necessitate a One Health (OH) approach for control. In addition to OH national level frameworks, effective OH driven strategies that promote local intersectoral coordination and collaboration are needed to truly address zoonotic diseases in India. We conducted a literat…
Ronak K. Kapadia, Insurgent Aesthetics
Does Cross-Race Contact Improve Cross-Race Face Perception? A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Race Deficit and Contact
Contact with racial outgroups is thought to reduce the cross-race recognition deficit (CRD), the tendency for people to recognize same-race (i.e., ingroup) faces more accurately than cross-race (i.e., outgroup) faces. In 2001, Meissner and Brigham conducted a meta-analysis in which they examined this question and found a meta-analytic effect of r = −.13. We conduct a new meta-analysis based on 20 years of additional data to update the estimate of…
Research on the effects of mobile learning on student education
As mobile devices have become a part of our daily lives, many studies are being conducted on making them more useful for students. It has been found that mobile gadgets are pretty beneficial to pupils, although some studies have found that they are ineffective. Our research on mobile devices in education and learning is summarized in this document, which we hope will be helpful to other educators and students (T&L). These studies have been divide…
Hepatoprotective effect of Physalis divaricata in paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity
Anchorless Unknown
This article examines contemporary responses to the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, wherein 376 South Asian migrants seeking work in Canada were refused entry upon their arrival in Vancouver, British Columbia. Specifically, this piece studies three affective objects: two state apologies from Canadian prime ministers Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau in 2008 and 2016, respectively, as well as a creative work—a hybrid of poetry and archival record—by …
Ameliorative potential of Argyreia speciosa against CCI-induced neuropathic pain in rats
Decoding Dress
In the wake of renewed attacks on both Muslim and Sikh communities, the hijab and turban continue to be enveloped as important material objects in the racialization of Muslim and Sikh bodies. Analyzing contemporary visual culture as both testament and counter-archive to a geopolitical project of Islamophobia, this article moves to both assemble and update how these unsettling figures are read and apprehended by statist forces and how they inventi…
Informal Power Structures and Grassroots Politics in Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
The study, based on outputs obtained from villages of Shillai block in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh, looks at the informal power structure found in the state’s rural areas. Both formal and the informal power structures have historically coexisted but we will study various factors that empower informal power structures and critically contrast them to the equality-based, constitutionally legalised formal power structures. This entails an un…
The Commodity Fetish of Modest Fashion
Research Article| October 01 2017 The Commodity Fetish of Modest Fashion Balbir K. Singh Balbir K. Singh Balbir K. Singh is a postdoctoral fellow in women's, gender, and sexuality studies in the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is at work on her first book, Militant Bodies, which looks at the visual culture and body politics of Muslims and Sikhs under the rise of global Islamophobia. Her scholarly an…
A genetic comparison of two alleged subspecies of P hilippine cynomolgus macaques
Two subspecies of cynomolgus macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) are alleged to co‐exist in the Philippines, M. f. philippensis in the north and M. f. fascicularis in the south. However, genetic differences between the cynomolgus macaques in the two regions have never been studied to document the propriety of their subspecies status. We genotyped samples of cynomolgus macaques from Batangas in southwestern Luzon and Zamboanga in southwestern Mindana…
On the Limits of Charhdi Kala
The recent narrative of Sikhs in America as victims is overly simplistic and incongruent with Sikh traditions. It is time for us to revisit this victimization narrative and account for the Sikh spi
State Politics in India. Explorations in Political Processes in Jammu and Kashmir
Foundations of Indian Philosophy
A genetic comparison of two alleged subspecies of P hilippine cynomolgus macaques
Two subspecies of cynomolgus macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) are alleged to co‐exist in the Philippines, M. f. philippensis in the north and M. f. fascicularis in the south. However, genetic differences between the cynomolgus macaques in the two regions have never been studied to document the propriety of their subspecies status. We genotyped samples of cynomolgus macaques from Batangas in southwestern Luzon and Zamboanga in southwestern Mindana…
Decoding Dress
In the wake of renewed attacks on both Muslim and Sikh communities, the hijab and turban continue to be enveloped as important material objects in the racialization of Muslim and Sikh bodies. Analyzing contemporary visual culture as both testament and counter-archive to a geopolitical project of Islamophobia, this article moves to both assemble and update how these unsettling figures are read and apprehended by statist forces and how they inventi…
The mental representation of ingroup and outgroup faces
Ethnicity critically impacts perceivers' ability to individuate and recognize faces. Valentine (1991) proposed a face space model in part to account for these effects, and although it has received significant attention, basic questions derived from that model have yet to be satisfactorily tested. Across three large-scale studies, over 10,000 human participants provided similarity judgments of pairs of faces. All studies used a full ingroup-outgro…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
On the Limits of Charhdi Kala
The recent narrative of Sikhs in America as victims is overly simplistic and incongruent with Sikh traditions. It is time for us to revisit this victimization narrative and account for the Sikh spi
Foundations of Indian Philosophy
State Politics in India. Explorations in Political Processes in Jammu and Kashmir
On the Limits of Charhdi Kala
The recent narrative of Sikhs in America as victims is overly simplistic and incongruent with Sikh traditions. It is time for us to revisit this victimization narrative and account for the Sikh spi
A genetic comparison of two alleged subspecies of P hilippine cynomolgus macaques
Two subspecies of cynomolgus macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) are alleged to co‐exist in the Philippines, M. f. philippensis in the north and M. f. fascicularis in the south. However, genetic differences between the cynomolgus macaques in the two regions have never been studied to document the propriety of their subspecies status. We genotyped samples of cynomolgus macaques from Batangas in southwestern Luzon and Zamboanga in southwestern Mindana…
The Commodity Fetish of Modest Fashion
Research Article| October 01 2017 The Commodity Fetish of Modest Fashion Balbir K. Singh Balbir K. Singh Balbir K. Singh is a postdoctoral fellow in women's, gender, and sexuality studies in the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is at work on her first book, Militant Bodies, which looks at the visual culture and body politics of Muslims and Sikhs under the rise of global Islamophobia. Her scholarly an…
Decoding Dress
In the wake of renewed attacks on both Muslim and Sikh communities, the hijab and turban continue to be enveloped as important material objects in the racialization of Muslim and Sikh bodies. Analyzing contemporary visual culture as both testament and counter-archive to a geopolitical project of Islamophobia, this article moves to both assemble and update how these unsettling figures are read and apprehended by statist forces and how they inventi…
Informal Power Structures and Grassroots Politics in Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
The study, based on outputs obtained from villages of Shillai block in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh, looks at the informal power structure found in the state’s rural areas. Both formal and the informal power structures have historically coexisted but we will study various factors that empower informal power structures and critically contrast them to the equality-based, constitutionally legalised formal power structures. This entails an un…
Ameliorative potential of Argyreia speciosa against CCI-induced neuropathic pain in rats
Anchorless Unknown
This article examines contemporary responses to the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, wherein 376 South Asian migrants seeking work in Canada were refused entry upon their arrival in Vancouver, British Columbia. Specifically, this piece studies three affective objects: two state apologies from Canadian prime ministers Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau in 2008 and 2016, respectively, as well as a creative work—a hybrid of poetry and archival record—by …
Ronak K. Kapadia, Insurgent Aesthetics
Does Cross-Race Contact Improve Cross-Race Face Perception? A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Race Deficit and Contact
Contact with racial outgroups is thought to reduce the cross-race recognition deficit (CRD), the tendency for people to recognize same-race (i.e., ingroup) faces more accurately than cross-race (i.e., outgroup) faces. In 2001, Meissner and Brigham conducted a meta-analysis in which they examined this question and found a meta-analytic effect of r = −.13. We conduct a new meta-analysis based on 20 years of additional data to update the estimate of…
Research on the effects of mobile learning on student education
As mobile devices have become a part of our daily lives, many studies are being conducted on making them more useful for students. It has been found that mobile gadgets are pretty beneficial to pupils, although some studies have found that they are ineffective. Our research on mobile devices in education and learning is summarized in this document, which we hope will be helpful to other educators and students (T&L). These studies have been divide…
Hepatoprotective effect of Physalis divaricata in paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity
Zoonosis–Why we should reconsider “What's in a name?”
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 13 February 2023Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1133330
One Health activities to reinforce intersectoral coordination at local levels in India
India's dense human and animal populations, agricultural economy, changing environment, and social dynamics support conditions for emergence/re-emergence of zoonotic diseases that necessitate a One Health (OH) approach for control. In addition to OH national level frameworks, effective OH driven strategies that promote local intersectoral coordination and collaboration are needed to truly address zoonotic diseases in India. We conducted a literat…
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces
Researchers have used eye-tracking measures to explore the relationship between face encoding and recognition, including the impact of ethnicity on this relationship. Previous studies offer a variety of conflicting conclusions. This confusion may stem from misestimation of the relationship between encoding and recognition. First, most previous models fail to account for the structure of eye-tracking data, potentially falling prey to Simpson's par…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Seed > Root
The mental representation of ingroup and outgroup faces
Ethnicity critically impacts perceivers' ability to individuate and recognize faces. Valentine (1991) proposed a face space model in part to account for these effects, and although it has received significant attention, basic questions derived from that model have yet to be satisfactorily tested. Across three large-scale studies, over 10,000 human participants provided similarity judgments of pairs of faces. All studies used a full ingroup-outgro…
Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross‐Race Recognition Deficit
The cross‐race recognition deficit (CRD) involves poorer recognition of faces perceived as cross‐race compared to faces perceived as the same race. In this literature, research has examined social and perceptual encoding in the CRD separately. Recent research comparing these strategies shows that encoding faces based on social information (personality traits) enhances face recognition relative to encoding faces based on perceptual information (fa…
Can a Single Cue Reduce Bias
Many companies simplify information to ease human decision-making. They assume if the available information is less ambiguous, judgments will be less biased. Prior literature suggests when multiple decision-relevant cues are available, perceivers differentially weigh cues to justify biased decisions. Therefore, if a perceiver has access to only one cue, bias may be reduced. In three studies, participants made several selection decisions. We manip…
Dissecting cross-category recognition
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