SANDEEP MISHRA

Associate Professor of Marketing
Lang School of Business and Economics
University of Guelph

Journal Articles
* = student and postdoctoral collaborators

Mishra, S. (in preparation). The feeling of motivation: Appraisal, urgency, and the proximate control of action. 

Mishra, S. (in preparation). The architecture of motivation: Reference-relative discrepancy and the organization of action. 

Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (in preparation). Traits via states: Relative state dynamics and emergence of behavioral stability. 

Selkghefari, P.*, Dhar, T., Dube, L., & Mishra, S. (in preparation). A dynamic account of decision-making via belief updating from description and experience. 

Barclay, P., & Mishra, S. (in preparation). Risk-taking as a signal of relative state: Thresholds, mixed motives, and audience error management.

Gonzales, J.*, & Mishra, S. (under revision). Relative state predicts risk-taking.

Twardus, O.*, Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (in press). Beyond desperation: Reproductive thresholds and the relative logic of risk-taking. 

Mishra, S., Beshai, S., Feeney, J., Fogg, C.*, & Iskric, A.* (in press). Perceived disadvantage: Individual differences in sensitivity to unfavorable social comparison predict poorer mental health. Personality and Individual Differences.

Refaie, N.*, Wuth, A.*, & Mishra, S. (2024). Benefit perceptions of risk, dark triad personality traits, and gambling behavior. International Gambling Studies.

Barclay, P., & Mishra, S. (2023). The psychology of relative state, desperation, and violence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Deminchuk, J.*, & Mishra, S. (2022). Coalitionary psychology and group dynamics on social media. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 45, e104.

Beshai, S., Mishra, S., Feeney, J. R., Summerfield, T.*, Hembroff,  C. C.*, & Kratzig, G. P. (2022). Resilience in the ranks: Trait mindfulness and self-compassion buffer the deleterious effects of envy on mental health symptoms among public safety personnel. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 5926.

Rotella, A.*, Sparks, A.*, Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (2021). No effect of 'watching eyes': An attempted replication and extension investigating individual differences. PLoS One, 16(10): e0255531.

Wuth, A.*, Mishra, S., Beshai, S., & Feeney, J. (2021). Experiences of developmental unpredictability and harshness predict adult cognition: An examination of maladaptive schemas, positive schemas, and cognitive distortions. Current Psychology.

Nadler, J.*, Day, M. V., Beshai, S., & Mishra, S. (2020). The relative deprivation trap: How feeling deprived relates to the experience of generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 39, 897-922.

Refaie, N.*, & Mishra, S. (2020). Embodied capital and risk-related traits, attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes: An exploratory examination of attractiveness, cognitive ability, and physical dexterity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 949-964.

Mahali, S. C.*, Beshai, S., Feeney, J., & Mishra, S. (2020). Associations of negative cognitions, emotional regulation, and depression symptoms across four continents: International support for the cognitive model of depression. BMC Psychiatry, 20:18.

Rotella, A.*, Fogg, C.*, Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (2019). The effect of compensation method on delay discounting in a crowdsourced sample: An exploratory study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 60, 520-527. 

Mishra, S., Beshai, S., Wuth, A.*, & Refaie, N.* (2019). Risk and protective factors in problem gambling: An examination of psychological resilience. International Gambling Studies, 19, 241–264.

Barclay, P., Mishra, S., & Sparks, A.* (2018). State-dependent risk-taking. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285: 20180180. 

Mishra, S., & Meadows, T. J. S.* (2018). Does stress mediate the association between personal relative deprivation and gambling? Stress and Health, 34, 331–337. 

Beshai, S., Mishra, S., Mishra, S., & Carleton, R. N. (2017). Personal relative deprivation associated with functional disorders via stress: An examination of fibromyalgia and gastrointestinal symptoms. PLoS One, 12(12):e0189666. 

Beshai, S., Mishra, S., Meadows, T. J. S.*, Parmar, P.*, & Huang, V.* (2017). Minding the gap: Subjective relative deprivation and depressive symptoms. Social Science & Medicine, 173, 18–25. 

Gonzales, J.*, Mishra, S., & Camp, R. D. (2017). For the win: Risk-sensitive decision-making in teams. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 462–472. 

Mishra, S., Barclay, P., & Sparks, A.* (2017). The relative state model: Integrating need-based and ability-based pathways to risk-taking. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 176–198. 

Mishra, S., & Carleton, R. N. (2017). Use of online crowdsourcing platforms for gambling research. International Gambling Studies, 17, 125–143. 

Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2017). Associations between delay discounting and risk-related behaviors, traits, attitudes, and outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 769–781. 

Mishra, S., Lalumière, M. L., & Williams, R. J. (2017). Gambling, risk-taking, and antisocial behavior: A replication study supporting the generality of deviance. Journal of Gambling Studies, 33, 15–36.

Mishra, S., Templeton, A. J.*, & Meadows, T. J. S.* (2017). Living, fast and slow: Is life history orientation associated with risk-related personality traits, risk attitudes, criminal outcomes, and gambling? Personality and Individual Differences, 117, 242–248.

Novakowski, D.*, & Mishra S. (2017). Relative state, social comparison reactions, and the behavioral constellation of deprivation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e335.

Carleton, R. N., Duranceau, S.*, Shulman, E. P., Zerff, M.*, Gonzales, J.*, & Mishra, S. (2016). Self-reported intolerance of uncertainty and behavioural decisions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 58–65.

Mishra, S., & Novakowski, D.* (2016). Personal relative deprivation and risk: An examination of individual differences in personality, attitudes, and behavioral outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 22–26. 

Mishra, S., & Carleton, R. N. (2015). Subjective relative deprivation is associated with poorer physical and mental health. Social Science & Medicine, 147, 144–149.

Mishra, S., Son Hing, L. S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2015). Inequality and risk-taking. Evolutionary Psychology, 13. doi:10.1177/1474704915596295. 

Ferrey, A. E.*, & Mishra, S. (2014). Compensation method affects risk-taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Personality and Individual Differences, 64, 111–114. 

Mishra, S. (2014). Decision-making under risk: Integrating perspectives from biology, economics, and psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18, 280–307.

Mishra, S., Barclay, P., & Lalumière, M. L. (2014). Competitive disadvantage facilitates risk-taking. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 126–132. 

Mishra, S., & Gonzales, J.* (2014). Sources of behavioral variability and the etiology of psychopathology. Psychological Inquiry, 25, 355–359. 

Sparks, A.*, Mishra, S., & Barclay, P. (2013). Fundamental freedoms and the psychology of threat, bargaining, and inequality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 500–501. 

Mishra, S., & Fiddick, L. (2012). Beyond gains and losses: The effect of need on risky choice in framed decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 1136–1147. 

Mishra, S., Gregson, M.*, & Lalumière, M. L. (2012). Framing effects and risk-sensitive decision-making. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 83–97. 

Mishra, S., & Sritharan, R.* (2012). Personality and behavioral outcomes associated with risk-taking are accurately inferred from faces. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 760–764. 

Pisanski, K.*, Mishra, S., & Rendall, D. (2012). The evolved psychology of voice: Evaluating inter-relationships in listeners’ assessments of size, masculinity, and attractiveness of unseen speakers. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 509–519. 

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., 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., Logue, D. M., Abiola, I. O.*, & Cade, W. H. (2011). Developmental environment affects risk-acceptance in the hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 125, 40–47. 

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., & 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., Morgan, M.*, Lalumière, M. L., & Williams, R. J. (2010). Mood and audience effects on video lottery terminal gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 26, 373–386. 

Logue, D. M., Mishra, S., McCaffrey, D.*, Ball, D.*, & Cade, W. H. (2009). A behavioral syndrome linking courtship behavior toward males and females predicts reproductive success from a single mating in the hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 781–788. 

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 & Medicine, 68, 39–48. 

Taves, M. D., Desjardins, J. K., Mishra, S., & Balshine, S. (2009). Androgens and dominance: Sex-specific patterns in a highly social fish (Neolamprologus pulcher). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 161, 202–207.

Mishra, S., Clark, A. P., & Daly, M. (2007). One woman’s behavior affects the attractiveness of others. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 145–149. 

Consulting Reports and Book Chapters

Mishra, S., Fogg, C.*, & Deminchuk, J.* (accepted). Competition and risk-taking. In S. Garcia, A. Tor, & A. Elliot (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Psychology of Competition. Oxford University Press.

Stevens, A., Mishra, S., Refaie, N.*, & Odum, F.* (2020). The impact of shift length and fatigue on occupational outcomes, decision-making, and health. Report prepared for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Regina). 

Bapuji, H.*, & Mishra, S. (2015). Inequality and organizations. In Mir, R., Willmott, H., & Greenwood, M. (Eds.), The Routledge companion to philosophy in organization studies (pp. 439–448). New York, NY: Routledge.  

Mishra, S., Lalumière, M. L., Williams, R. J., & Daly, M. (2012). Determinants of risky decision-making and gambling: The effects of need and relative deprivation. Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre Report 2707. 

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, NY: Oxford University Press. 

Mishra, S., Lalumière, M. L., Williams, R. J., & Morgan, M.* (2008). Gambling and risk-taking: Individual differences in risk-acceptance and the impact of situational factors. Alberta Gambling Research Institute Report. 

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, NY: Oxford University Press. 

Other Publications

Refaie, N.*, & Mishra, S. (2018). Economic hardship. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2273-1. 

Wuth, M.*, & Mishra, S. (2018). Environmental unpredictability and bet hedging. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3695-1. 

Wuth, M.*, & Mishra, S. (2018). Extrinsic mortality. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2365-1.

Mishra, S. (2017). Tinbergen’s four questions and variance explained: Why business (and all behavioral science) needs evolutionary theory. This View of Business: How Evolutionary Thinking Can Transform the Workplace.

Gonzales, J.*, & Mishra, S. (2017). Heuristics. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_626-1.

Mishra, S., Novakowski, D.*, & Gonzales, J.* (2017). Judgment and decision-making. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_628-1.

Novakowski, D.*, & Mishra, S. (2017). Biases. In T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_627-1.

Gonzales, J.*, & Mishra, S. (2016). Going for it: When risk is worth it, and when it’s not. The Evolution Institute: This View of Life.

Mishra, S. (2014). Crime drop of the 1990s. In J. S. Albanese (Ed.), Encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice (Vol. 1, pp. 466–470). New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell.

Mishra, S. (2010). The benefits of a small university for graduate studies in psychology. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Magazine, 32(4), 36.

Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2009). The big drop in sex crimes. Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers: The Forum, 21(2).

Mishra, S., & Lalumière, M. L. (2008). A review of the book Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior (by G. S. Anderson). Canadian Psychology, 49, 268–270. 

Personal

I was born and raised in rural Ontario. I love strategy board games, baseball, science fiction and fantasy books, and, most of all - listening to and playing jazz-funk-postrock music (as a drummer) with my lovely partner Christine and our tight-knit group of friends.