Dr.

Shruti Tewari

Associate Professor (Psychology),

Humanities & Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Management Indore,
shrutitewari@iimidr.ac.in, shrutigyan@gmail.com

RESEARCH
Social Cognition, Group Dynamics, Social Identity & Health

Journal articles

2020
Tewari, S., Makwana, M. & Srinivasan, N. Group congruent labelling leads to subjective
expansion of time. Royal Society Open Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201063

Singh. P., Tewari, S., Kesberg, R., Karl, J. S., Bulbulia, J. & Fischer, R. Time investments in rituals
are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: A longitudinal study of Diwali
in two Indian communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences. 375 20190430 http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0430

Reicher, S., Hopkins, N., Clifford, S., Shankar, S. Pandey, K. & Tewari, S. Identity enactment as
collective accomplishment: Religious identity enactment at home and at a festival. British
Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12415

Piven, S., Fischer, R., Shaver, J.H., Mogan, R., Karl, J., Kesberg, R., Richardson, A., Singh, P., Tewari
S., & Bulbulia, J. Kiwi Diwali: A longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection
following a civic religious ritual. Religion, Brain and Behavior.

2019
Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., Clifford, S. Pandey, K., Shankar, S. & Tewari, S. Social relations in crowds:
Recognition, validation and solidarity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 1283-1297.

2018
Tewari, S & Mahapatra, G. Social Neuroscience & HR: An Introductory perspective. NHRD
Network Journal, 11 (4). Sage Publications.

Tewari, S. & Gupta, A. Pre-suasion: a revolutionary way to influence and persuade. Journal of
Marketing Communications, DOI: 10.1080/13527266.2018.1504811

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 2016
Tybur, JM, Inbar, Y, Aarøe, … Tewari, S., Wilson, C., Yong, J.C. and Iris Žeželj. Parasite stress and
pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations.
Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 113 (44) 12408-12413.

2015
Reicher, S., Hopkins, N., Khan, S. S., Tewari, S., Srinivasan, N., & Stevenson, C. Explaining
effervescence: How shared social identity produces positive experiences in crowds.
Cognition & Emotion
Srinivasan, N., Tewari, S., Makwana, M. & Hopkins. N. P. Attention Mediates the Effect of
Context-Relevant Social Meaning on Prospective Duration Judgments. Timing & Time
Perception. Brill.

Khan, S., Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., Tewari, S., Srinivasan, N., Stevenson, C. How Collective
Participation Impacts Social Identity: A Longitudinal Study with Control Data. Political
Psychology.

Khan, S., Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., Tewari, S., Srinivasan, N., Stevenson, C. Shared identity
predicts enhanced health at mass gatherings. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

2014
Khan, Hopkins, N., S., Tewari, S., Srinivasan, N., Reicher, S. D. & Ozakinci, G. Efficacy and
well-being in rural north India: The role of social identification with a large-scale community
identity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44(7), 787-798.

2013
Shankar, S., Stevenson, C., Pandey, K., Tewari, S., Hopkins, N., & Reicher, S. D. A calming
cacophony: Social identity and the experience of noise at the Magh Mela in Allahabad. Journal
of Environmental Psychology.36, 87-95.

2012
Tewari, S., Khan, S.S., Hopkins, N., Srinivasan, N., & Reicher, S. Participation in mass
gatherings can benefit well-being: Longitudinal and control data from a North Indian Hindu
pilgrimage event. PLOS ONE, 7(10): e47291

2011
Pande, N., & Tewari, S. Understanding Coping with Distress due to physical disability,
Psychology and Developing Societies, Vol. 23(2). pp. 177-209.

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 2009
Singh, P., Pandey, J., Tewari, S, Pandey, K., & Maurya, M. Perceived justice of available
opportunities and self-esteem, collective self-esteem and social exclusion: a study of three
religious groups in India, Psychological Studies, Vol. 54, June, 2009, pp.124-132.

2007
Prayag Magh Mela Research Group. Living the Magh Mela at Prayag: collective identity,
collective experience and the impact of participation in a mass event. Psychological Studies,
52 (4), 293- 301.

Prayag Magh Mela Research Group. Revisiting research practice in India. Psychological
Studies, 52 (4), 302- 310.

Prayag Magh Mela Research Group. Experiencing the Magh Mela at Prayag: Crowd,
categories and social relations. Psychological Studies, 52 (4), 311- 319.

Book Chapters

2018 Tewari, S (2018). Structural Equation Modelling Using AMOS. Psyber News, Vol
8, (2) ISSN-09760709.
2015 Hopkins, N., Stevenson, C., Shankar, S., Pandey, K., Khan, S. & Tewari, S. Being
together at the Magh Mela: The social psychology of crowds and collectivity. In
Gale, T. Maddrell, A., & Terry, A. (eds.). Sacred Mobilities. Ashgate: Farnham.

2014 Pande, N. & Tewari, S. Psychology and Physical Disability Policies. In Tripathi,
R. C. (Ed.), Psychology and Social Policies in India, Springer Publications. pp.
171-192.

2009 Tewari, S. Role of Women in Changing Rural India. In Agarwal, B. (Ed.),

Changing Rural India, ABD Publisher, Jaipur, pp. 147-166.

2007 Tewari, S. Coping with Physical Disability. In Tripathi, R. (Ed.), Proceedings of

National Seminar on Human Rights and Empowerment of Weaker Section:
Children, Women, Dalits, Seniors and Disabled. Dikshit Press, Allahabad, pp. 217-
225.

Under Review

Tewari, S. & Tiwari, G (Under review). Gender priming affects scene perception: An Eye-
tracking study.

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Research Grants/ Consultancy:

Attentional Inhibition, Identity and Affective evaluation: Co-PI: Prof. N. Srinivasan, CBCS,
Allahabad University. Funded by research grant from Department of Science and Technology
(DST) under Cognitive Sciences Research Initiatives (CSRI) for a period of 3 years.

Rituals, Identity & Well-being: Co-PIs: Joseph Bulbulia, Religious Studies, Ronald Fischer,
School of Psychology, Rick Weiss, Religious Studies, Victoria University of New Zealand &
Purnima Singh, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Funded by New Zealand India Research Institute, VUW.

Cross- Cultural study on Political Ideology, Pathogen Avoidance, Disgust Sensitivity, and
Attitudes toward Groups: in collaboration with J. M. Tybur, , VU University Amsterdam & Y.
Inbar Tilburg University.

Project Assurance officer (PAO): Cassidy Trust, UK

(http://www.cassidytrust.org/About/AdvisorsAndConsultants)

Award & Recognition

▪ AIM Sheth Foundation grant 2019 for Marketing research (with Mr. G Singh & Prof. S.
Tripathi)
▪ Awarded competitive grant to Support Research Collaboration by Visiting Other
Institutions by IIM Indore (2017)
▪ Awarded as Emerging Psychologist by NAOP 2014
▪ Nominated for Durganand Sinha Best Dissertation award, by NAOP 2013

Reviewer in the peer review journals (selected list)

British Journal of Social Psychology published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British

Psychological Society.
Psychological Studies published by Springer on behalf of National Academy of Psychology.
The IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review published by Sage in association
with Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.
Asian Social Science published by Canadian Center of Science and Education.

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TEACHING

Academic Employment

2020-Present Associate Professor: at Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute

of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
2017-2020 Assistant Professor: at Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute
of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
2016-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor: at Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian
Institute of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
2013-2015 Post Doc Fellow: at Center of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences,
University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
2009-2012 Research Director: Indo-British collaborative project on “Collective
participation and social identification: A study of the individual,
interpersonal and collective dimensions of attendance at the MaghMela’’
funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK (RES-062-
23-1449) at Center of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of
Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
2008-2009 Lecturer: AMITY Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, AMITY
University, Lucknow Campus.
2004-2005 Research Associate: Community Based Rehabilitation project
“PRAKASH” sponsored by Action Aid at Viklang Kendra Rural Research
Society, Allahabad.

Teaching Experience

2016- Current: Undergraduate: IPM

Social Psychology, Negotiation, Introduction to Psychology, Personality & Health

Postgraduate: PGP, PGPHRM & PGPMX

Brain talks @ work, Experimental methods for OB, Behavioural Analytics using
Neuroscience

Doctoral: FPM/EFPM
Social Cognition

Executive/ Management Development Program

Stress Management, NeuroHR, Group Dynamics, Team effectiveness

2011-2015 Postgraduate & Doctoral: MSc/PhD Cognitive Sciences

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 Social Cognition, Culture & Cognition, Statistical Analysis through SPSS

2008-2009 Undergraduate & Postgraduate: BCA, MCA, B Tech, M Tech

Personality, Research Methods, Applied Social Psychology, Behavioral science
workshops

Thesis Advisory Committee

1. Ms. Arti Sharma (FPM 2015): OB/HRM
2. Mr. Gurbir Singh (FPM 2015): Marketing
3. Mr. Sambit Kumar Ghosh (FPM (I) 2016): OB/HRM
4. Mr. Rajesh NVC (FPM 2016) : OB/HRM

WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES

Invited Workshops

April, 2012 School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.

Oct., 2011 Research meeting on ‘Experience of Collective Participation & Identity’ at London,
UK
June, 2011 School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
June, 2010 School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Sept.,2010 School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

2010 Conducted one-week workshop on “Using SPSS in Social Science Researches” for
faculty members and post graduate students at AMITY Institute of Behavioural
and Allied Sciences, AMITY University, Lucknow Campus.

2007 Conducted three weeks workshop on “Using SPSS in Social Science Researches”
for third semester Master of Public Health students of Faculty of Health and
Medical Sciences, Allahabad Agricultural Institute Deemed University, Allahabad.

2005 Conducted national workshop on ‘Women Empowerment’ at Viklang Kendra

Rural Research Society, Allahabad.

2004 Conducted Various Awareness and advocacy campaigns for persons with
disability in Koraon, Meja and Manda block of Allahabad District under CBR
Project sponsored by Action Aid.

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 Conferences

2019 Mehta, S. & Tewari, S. IIM Indore Face database. In the 29th Conference of the
National Academy of Psychology, held at Pondicherry University from Dec 21-23,
2019.
2018 Tewari, S. Religious Identity and Well-being: Collective Participation in Muharram.
In symposium on 'The Social Cure (and Curse): Health from a Social Identity
Perspective (Symposium Convener: Prof S. K. Khan, Keele University, UK).
The 28th Congress of the National Academy of Psychology, held at Delhi University
from Dec 18-21, 2018.
2018 Chunduri, D. Selvaraja, M. & Tewari, S. Inclusion of Differently Abled in Higher
Education'. The 28th Congress of the National Academy of Psychology, held at
Delhi University from Dec 18-21, 2018.
2018 Tewari, S. & Tiwari, G. Social Identity and Scene Perception. In International
Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP 2018) held at Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2018 Tewari, S. Psychology of fake news: Blend of Identity & Familiarity. In National
conference on Recent advances in Cognition & health, held at BHU.
2018 Tewari, S. Attention Inhibition, Group membership & affective evaluation. In
conference on Towards a Psychology of Social Change: An interdisciplinary
Dialogue, held at IIT Delhi.
2017 Tewari. S. Unfolding the group biases: role of attention. In 27th Annual conference
of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), held at IITKGP.
2016 Tewari, S. & Srinivasan, N. Does Global/Local attentional processing affects stress
and coping? In 26th annual conference of the National Academy of Psychology
(NAOP), India held at IIT Madras.
2016 Tewari, S., Fisher, R., Bulbulia, J. & Singh. P. Impact of religious rituals on wellbeing,
mindfulness and affect. XXV Annual Conference of Academy of Psychology.
(NAOP) held at University of Allahabad.
2015 Tewari, S. & Srinivasan, N. Global Local attention affects stress and coping. In
International Conference on Cognition, and Emotion, CBCS, Allahabad University.
2014 Tewari, S. Collective Participation & Well-being. XXIV Annual Conference of
National Academy of Psychology. (NAOP) held at IIFM and NITTTR Bhopal.
2014 Tewari, S. Attention mediates the duration estimations. XXIV Annual
Conference of National Academy of Psychology. (NAOP) held at IIFM and NITTTR
Bhopal.
2013 Tewari, S., Hopkins, N., Khan S. S. & Srinivasan, N. Explicating effervescence: How
shared social identity produces positive experiences in crowds. XXIII Annual
Conference of National Academy of Psychology. (NAOP) held at NIT, Rourkela.
2013 Tewari, S., Hopkins, N., Khan S. S. & Srinivasan, N. Explicating effervescence: How
shared social identity produces positive experiences in crowds. XXIII Annual
Conference of National Academy of Psychology. (NAOP) held at NIT, Rourkela.
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 2013 Tewari, S., Makwana, M. & Srinivasan, N. Group Membership Influences
duration estimates. International Conference on Cognition, Emotion and Action,
IIT, Gandhi Nagar.
2012 Tewari, S., Hopkins, N., Khan S. S. & Srinivasan, N. Collective Participation &
Health. Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP).
Department of Humanities and Social Science, Bangluru.
2012 Tewari, S., Hopkins, N., Khan S. S. & Levine, M. Collective Participation & Well-
being: The effects on wellbeing of participation in the Prayag Magh Mela.
International Conference on recent advances in Cognition & Health, Department
of Psychology, BHU, Varanasi.
2009 Tewari, S. Understanding Coping with Distress due to Physical Disability. 8th
Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, AASP, IITD & NAOP,
Dehli, India.
2008 Tewari, S. Poster presentation on Coping with Distress due to Locomotor
Disability. XXIX Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
2008 Tewari, S. Distress and Locomotor Disability. Management of stress for Quality
Living, AMITY Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, AMITY University,
Lucknow Campus.
2007 Tewari, S. Coping with Distress Due to Physical Disability. 17th Annual
Conference of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP).Department of Humanities
and Social Science, IIT, Kanpur.
2006 Tewari, S., Pandey, K., Maurya, P. Justice Perception by Majority and Minorities in
India. 16th Annual Conference of National Academy Of Psychology (NAOP),
Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT, Bombay.
2006 Tewari, S., Pandey, K., Maurya, P. & Pandey, J. Perceived Justice by Majority
and Minorities in India. Indo-British conference on Identity and Collective
Experience, Centre for Advanced studies in Psychology, Department of Psychology,
University of Allahabad, in collaboration with Universities of U. K.
2005 Tewari, S. Distress, Coping and Achievement of Person with Physical Disability.
National Seminar on Human rights and Empowerment of Weaker Section:
Children, Women, Dalits, Seniors and Disabled. Rajshree Tandon Mahila
Mahavidyalaya, Allahabad.
2005 UGC British Council Advanced Social Psychology Research Refresher Course.
Centre for Advanced studies in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University
of Allahabad, Allahabad.

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BIOGRAPHY
Date of Birth: December 16, 1980
Nationality: Indian

Education

D. Phil. (2010)
Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
On “Understanding Distress, Coping and Achievement of Persons with Physical Disability”
under the supervision of Prof. Namita Pande

M.A. (2002)
Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
B.A. (2000)
Psychology & Philosophy, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Additional Qualifications

2002 & 2003 U.G.C. NET

2005-2007 Five Pre-Ph. D. Courses:

Qualitative Research Methods by Prof. A. Satyanarayana
Quantitative Research Methods by Prof. A. K. Dalal
Advanced Social Psychology by Prof. Janak Pandey
Reason, Passion & Social Cognition by Prof. N. Pande & Prof. N.
Srinivasan
Culture and Psychology: Issues and Debates by Prof. J. Pandey

2005 Analysis Using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS), sponsored by ICSSR,
New Delhi, at G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.

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 Contact
Office: J207, Academic Block, IIM Campus, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore

Residence: House number 14, IIM Campus, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore

+919452623003

shrutigyan@gmail.com, shrutitewari@iimidr.ac.in

References

Prof. N. Srinivasan Prof. N. Hopkins Prof. N. Pande

Center of School of Psychology, Department of
Behavioral & Dundee University, Psychology, Allahabad
Cognitive Sciences, Scotland, UK University, Prayagraj.
Allahabad Tel: 0044 1382 384625 Tel: +919621992244
University, n.p.hopkins@dundee.ac. namitapande9@gmail.com
Prayagraj. uk
Tel: +919935827117
nsrini@cbcs.ac.in,
ammuns@yahoo.com

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