Photo Courtesy: Prasad Chandrashekar (2007). Varkala (Kerala, India)
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I recently concluded my postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
My research focuses on: Judgment and Decision Making; Choice, agency, and related lay-beliefs (e.g., belief in free will); Moral psychology; Replication; Open science. I received my Ph.D. in Management (Organizational behaviour track) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Publications
Chandrashekar, S. P., Bostyn, D. H., De Clercq, J., & Roets, A. (in press). In Similarity We Trust: Not the Type of Moral Judgment but Like-Mindedness Drives Inferences of Trustworthiness. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ph58r
Fillon, A. A., & Chandrashekar, S. P. (in press). The Replication Dilemma: Potential Challenges in Measuring Replication Value—A Commentary on Isager, Van’t Veer, & Lakens (2024). Meta-Pscyhology. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/69b2g
Mayiwar, L., Løhre, E., Chandrashekar, S. P., & Hærem, T. (2025). Does Desire for Status Increase Overconfidence? A Replication and Extension of Study 5 in Anderson et al. 2012. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000444
Chandrashekar, S. P., Løhre, E., Skjellet, J., Kanten, A. B. (2025). Communicated and perceived public consensus about climate change. Collabra: Psychology[Pre-print] https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.130896
Fillon, A., Chandrashekar, S. P., Feldman, G. (2025). Asymmetries in attributions of blame and praise, intent, and causality: Free will, responsibility, and the side-effect effect. Collabra: Psychology, 11 (1): 128423. [Publisher link]
Chandrashekar, S. P., Permut, S., Sjåstad, H., Lo, C., Kueh, Y., Zhong, S., Wan, K., Choy, K., Wong, M., Hugh, W., Tahira, K., Cheng, B., & Feldman, G. (2024). Do people believe they are less predictable than others? Three replications of Pronin and Kugler (2010)’s Experiment 1. International Review of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/YKMQP [Open materials/data/code] [Publisher link]
Chandrashekar, S. P., & Fillon, A. A. (2024). Framing the Default: Influence of Choosing vs Rejecting Frame on Default Effects. Experimental Psychology. [Pre-print] [Publisher link]
Løhre, E., Chandrashekar, S. P., Mayiwar, L., & Hærem, T. (2024). Uncertainty, expertise, and persuasion: A replication and extension of Karmarkar and Tormala (2010). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104619
Registered Report stage 1 protocol: link
Chandrashekar, S.P., Adelina, N., Zeng, S., Chiu, Y. Y., Leung, Y. S., Cheng, B., Henne, P., & Feldman, G. (2023). Defaults versus framing: Revisiting Default Effect and Framing Effect with replications and extensions of Johnson and Goldstein (2003) and Johnson, Bellman, and Lohse (2002). Meta-Psychology. [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Bostyn, D. H., Chandrashekar, S. P., & Roets, A. (2023). Deontologists are not always trusted over utilitarians: Revisiting Inferences of Trustworthiness from Moral Judgments. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1665. [Article]
Chandrashekar, S. P., Chan, Y. Y., Cheng, K. L., Yao, J., Feldman, G., et al. (2022). Revisiting the Folk Concept of Intentionality: Replications of Malle and Knobe (1997). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Efendić, E., Chandrashekar, S. P., Cheong, S., Yeung, L., Kim, M., Lee, C., & Feldman, G. (2021). Risky therefore not beneficial: Replication & extension of Finucane et al. (2000)'s Affect Heuristic experiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science. [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Chandrashekar, S. P., Cheng, Y. H., Fong, C. L., Leung, Y. C., Wong, Y. T., Cheng, B. L., & Feldman, G. (2021). Frequency estimation and semantic ambiguity do not eliminate conjunction bias, when it occurs: Replication and extension of Mellers, Hertwig, and Kahneman (2001). Meta-Psychology. [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Chandrashekar, S. P., Yeung, S., Yau, K., Cheung, C., Agarwal, T. K., Wong, C., Pillai, T., Thirlwell, T. N., Leung, W., Li, Y., Tse, C., Cheng, B., Chan, H., & Feldman, G. (2021). Agency and self-other asymmetries in perceived bias and shortcomings: Replications of the Bias Blind Spot and link to free will beliefs. Judgment and Decision Making. 16(6), 1392–1412. DOI: [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Kafouros, M., Chandrashekar, S. P., Aliyev, M., & Au, K. M. A.(2021). How do formal and informal institutions influence firm profitability in emerging countries? Journal of International Management. 100890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2021.100890
Chandrashekar, S. P., Weber, J., Chan, S., Cho, W., Chu, T., Cheng, B., & Feldman, G. (2021). Accentuation and compatibility: Replication and extensions of Shafir (1993) to rethink Choosing versus Rejecting paradigms. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(1), 36-56. DOI: [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, dataset, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Chandrashekar, S. P. (2020). It’s in your control: Free will beliefs and blame attribution to obese people and people with mental illness. Collabra: Psychology. DOI: 10.1525/collabra.305 [Article]
Pre-registration, procedures, datasets, & analysis code on Open Science Framework (link)
Zhou, J., Leping, G. Li, J. T., & Chandrashekar, S. P. (2020) “The Rich Get Richer?”: Entrepreneurs’ Socio-economic Status and Expropriation Hazards in China. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. DOI:10.1002/sej.1361 [Article]
Feldman, G. & Chandrashekar, S. P. (2018). Laypersons’ beliefs and intuitions about free will and determinism: New insights linking the social psychology and experimental philosophy paradigms. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550617713254 [Article] [Publisher link]
Procedures, datasets, & code on Open Science Framework
Feldman, G., Chandrashekar, S. P., & Wong, K. F. E. (2016). The freedom to excel: Belief in free will predicts better academic performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 377–383. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.043 [Article] [Publisher link]
Pre-prints
Chandrashekar, S. P., Domenico Viganola, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Adam Siegel, Gilad Feldman. (2025). Using prediction markets and forecasting surveys to predict 28 replication outcomes of classic articles in social psychology and judgment and decision making. [Pre-print]
Chandrashekar, S. P. & Feldman, G. (2025). On the process and value of direct close replications: Reply to Shafir and Cheek (2024) commentary on Chandrashekar et al. (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RVPZF
Chandrashekar, S. P. The Facial Width-to-Height Ratio (fWHR) and Perceived Dominance and Trustworthiness: Moderating Role of Social Identity Cues (Gender and Race) and Ecological Factor (Pathogen Prevalence). DOI:10.31234/osf.io/64t9s
Pre-registration, analysis scripts, and datasets on Open Science Framework (link)
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