Chiraag Mittal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiraag Mittal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiraag |
| FAMILY NAME | Mittal |
| SIGNATURE | MITTAL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Casting the Right Net: Childhood Socioeconomic Status Predicts Self-Perceived Mate Value and Mating Standards After Financial Threat
Environmental stress promotes accelerated mating goals among adults with low childhood socioeconomic status (CSES). However, little is known about proximal psychological changes that would need to co-occur with shifting mating goals to ensure their success. Across five studies, we tested the possibility that one such change may occur in individuals’ self-perceived mate value, as lower self-perceived mate value could widen the pool of available pa…
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account
Past studies find that lower socioeconomic status (SES) individuals are less likely to donate organs. Building on the extended self literature, we propose that this effect occurs in part because the body is more central to the sense of self of lower-SES individuals. We test our predictions across seven studies (N = 8,782) conducted in different countries (United States and Brazil) with qualitative, observational, and experimental data in controll…
From Cradle to Grave: How Childhood and Current Environments Impact Consumers' Subjective Life Expectancy and Decision-Making
The age to which people expect to live likely drives many important consumer decisions. Yet we know surprisingly little about the antecedents and consequences of consumers' subjective life expectancies. In the present work, we propose that subjective life expectancy is influenced by the combination of people's childhood environment and their current environment. We find that people who grew up in poorer environments expected to have a shorter lif…
Can an unpredictable childhood environment enhance working memory? Testing the sensitized-specialization hypothesis
Although growing up in an adverse childhood environment tends to impair cognitive functions, evolutionary-developmental theory suggests that this might be only one part of the story. A person's mind may instead become developmentally specialized and potentially enhanced for solving problems in the types of environments in which the person grew up. In the current research, we tested whether these specialized advantages in cognitive function might …
Silver Spoons and Platinum Plans: How Childhood Environment Affects Adult Health Care Decisions
Can socioeconomic status in childhood influence desire for health coverage in adulthood? We develop and test a model that yielded two sets of findings across five experiments. First, people who grew up poor were generally less interested in health coverage compared to those who grew up wealthy. This effect was independent of people's current level of socioeconomic status, emerged most strongly when adults were experiencing financial threat, and w…
Cognitive adaptations to stressful environments: When childhood adversity enhances adult executive function
Can growing up in a stressful childhood environment enhance certain cognitive functions? Drawing participants from higher-income and lower-income backgrounds, we tested how adults who grew up in harsh or unpredictable environments fared on 2 types of executive function tasks: inhibition and shifting. People who experienced unpredictable childhoods performed worse at inhibition (overriding dominant responses), but performed better at shifting (eff…
Sense of control under uncertainty depends on people’s childhood environment: A life history theory approach
Past research found that environmental uncertainty leads people to behave differently depending on their childhood environment. For example, economic uncertainty leads people from poor childhoods to become more impulsive while leading people from wealthy childhoods to become less impulsive. Drawing on life history theory, we examine the psychological mechanism driving such diverging responses to uncertainty. Five experiments show that uncertainty…
Sense of control under uncertainty depends on people’s childhood environment: A life history theory approach
Past research found that environmental uncertainty leads people to behave differently depending on their childhood environment. For example, economic uncertainty leads people from poor childhoods to become more impulsive while leading people from wealthy childhoods to become less impulsive. Drawing on life history theory, we examine the psychological mechanism driving such diverging responses to uncertainty. Five experiments show that uncertainty…
Cognitive adaptations to stressful environments: When childhood adversity enhances adult executive function
Can growing up in a stressful childhood environment enhance certain cognitive functions? Drawing participants from higher-income and lower-income backgrounds, we tested how adults who grew up in harsh or unpredictable environments fared on 2 types of executive function tasks: inhibition and shifting. People who experienced unpredictable childhoods performed worse at inhibition (overriding dominant responses), but performed better at shifting (eff…
From Cradle to Grave: How Childhood and Current Environments Impact Consumers' Subjective Life Expectancy and Decision-Making
The age to which people expect to live likely drives many important consumer decisions. Yet we know surprisingly little about the antecedents and consequences of consumers' subjective life expectancies. In the present work, we propose that subjective life expectancy is influenced by the combination of people's childhood environment and their current environment. We find that people who grew up in poorer environments expected to have a shorter lif…
Silver Spoons and Platinum Plans: How Childhood Environment Affects Adult Health Care Decisions
Can socioeconomic status in childhood influence desire for health coverage in adulthood? We develop and test a model that yielded two sets of findings across five experiments. First, people who grew up poor were generally less interested in health coverage compared to those who grew up wealthy. This effect was independent of people's current level of socioeconomic status, emerged most strongly when adults were experiencing financial threat, and w…
Can an unpredictable childhood environment enhance working memory? Testing the sensitized-specialization hypothesis
Although growing up in an adverse childhood environment tends to impair cognitive functions, evolutionary-developmental theory suggests that this might be only one part of the story. A person's mind may instead become developmentally specialized and potentially enhanced for solving problems in the types of environments in which the person grew up. In the current research, we tested whether these specialized advantages in cognitive function might …
Sense of control under uncertainty depends on people’s childhood environment: A life history theory approach
Past research found that environmental uncertainty leads people to behave differently depending on their childhood environment. For example, economic uncertainty leads people from poor childhoods to become more impulsive while leading people from wealthy childhoods to become less impulsive. Drawing on life history theory, we examine the psychological mechanism driving such diverging responses to uncertainty. Five experiments show that uncertainty…
Cognitive adaptations to stressful environments: When childhood adversity enhances adult executive function
Can growing up in a stressful childhood environment enhance certain cognitive functions? Drawing participants from higher-income and lower-income backgrounds, we tested how adults who grew up in harsh or unpredictable environments fared on 2 types of executive function tasks: inhibition and shifting. People who experienced unpredictable childhoods performed worse at inhibition (overriding dominant responses), but performed better at shifting (eff…
Silver Spoons and Platinum Plans: How Childhood Environment Affects Adult Health Care Decisions
Can socioeconomic status in childhood influence desire for health coverage in adulthood? We develop and test a model that yielded two sets of findings across five experiments. First, people who grew up poor were generally less interested in health coverage compared to those who grew up wealthy. This effect was independent of people's current level of socioeconomic status, emerged most strongly when adults were experiencing financial threat, and w…
Can an unpredictable childhood environment enhance working memory? Testing the sensitized-specialization hypothesis
Although growing up in an adverse childhood environment tends to impair cognitive functions, evolutionary-developmental theory suggests that this might be only one part of the story. A person's mind may instead become developmentally specialized and potentially enhanced for solving problems in the types of environments in which the person grew up. In the current research, we tested whether these specialized advantages in cognitive function might …
From Cradle to Grave: How Childhood and Current Environments Impact Consumers' Subjective Life Expectancy and Decision-Making
The age to which people expect to live likely drives many important consumer decisions. Yet we know surprisingly little about the antecedents and consequences of consumers' subjective life expectancies. In the present work, we propose that subjective life expectancy is influenced by the combination of people's childhood environment and their current environment. We find that people who grew up in poorer environments expected to have a shorter lif…
How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation: An Extended Self Account
Past studies find that lower socioeconomic status (SES) individuals are less likely to donate organs. Building on the extended self literature, we propose that this effect occurs in part because the body is more central to the sense of self of lower-SES individuals. We test our predictions across seven studies (N = 8,782) conducted in different countries (United States and Brazil) with qualitative, observational, and experimental data in controll…
Casting the Right Net: Childhood Socioeconomic Status Predicts Self-Perceived Mate Value and Mating Standards After Financial Threat
Environmental stress promotes accelerated mating goals among adults with low childhood socioeconomic status (CSES). However, little is known about proximal psychological changes that would need to co-occur with shifting mating goals to ensure their success. Across five studies, we tested the possibility that one such change may occur in individuals’ self-perceived mate value, as lower self-perceived mate value could widen the pool of available pa…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Socioeconomic status (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Demography (2 works)