Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
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Sandeep Mishra
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My research is concerned with explaining patterns of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in various contexts, and comprises three main lines. First, I use laboratory experiments to investigate how social and environmental cues interact with individual differences in personality to influence risk-sensitive decisions. Second, I study the etiology and determinants of gambling and problem gambling behavior. Third, I use archival data and epidemiological techniques to examine and explain population-level variation in crime and risky behavior over space and time.
I have received grants, awards, and honors from several different organizations, including the Governor General of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, the Alberta Gaming Research Institute, and the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, among others.
Journal Articles:
- Mishra, S., Clark, A. P., & Daly, M. (2007). One woman’s behavior affects the attractiveness of others. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 145-149.
- Mishra, S., & Fiddick, L. (in press). Beyond gains and losses: The effect of need on risky choice in framed decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Mishra, S., Gregson, M., & Lalumière, M. L. (2012). Framing effects and risk-sensitive decision making. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 83-97.
- Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2011). Individual differences in risk-propensity: Associations between personality and behavioral measures of risk. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 869-873.
- Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2010). You can't always get what you want: The motivational effect of need on risk-sensitive decision-making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 605-611.
- Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2009). Is the crime drop of the 1990s in Canada and the USA associated with a general decline in risky and health-related behaviors? Social Science and Medicine, 68, 39-48.
- Mishra, S., Lalumière, M. L., Morgan, M., & Williams, R. J. (2011). An examination of the relationship between gambling and antisocial behavior. Journal of Gambling Studies, 27, 409-426.
- Mishra, S., Lalumière, M. L., & Williams, R. J. (2010). Gambling as a form of risk-taking: Individual differences in personality, risk-accepting attitudes, and behavioral preferences for risk. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 616-621.
- Mishra, S., Logue, D. M., Abiola, I., & Cade, W. H. (2011). Developmental environment affects risk-acceptance in the hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 125, 40-47.
Other Publications:
- Lalumière, M. L., Mishra, S., & Harris, G. T. (2008). In cold blood: The evolution of psychopathy. In J. Duntley & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary forensic psychology: Darwinian foundations of crime and law (pp. 139-159). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2008). Risk taking, antisocial behavior, and life histories. In J. Duntley & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary forensic psychology: Darwinian foundations of crime and law (pp. 176-197). New York: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Methods and Statistics
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Sandeep Mishra
Department of Psychology
University of Guelph
Blackwood Hall, 70 Trent Lane
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Canada
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