Current Role(s)

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Differential Psychology and Personality Research Unit, Institute of Psychology, University of Osnabruck, Germany
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Research Articles

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• Pandey, S. & Osinsky, R. (2025). Individual sensitivities to reward and punishment outcomes predict frontal theta activity in approach avoidance conflict. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 213, 112985. [link] 

• Coles, A. N., Perz, B., ..., Pandey, S.,..., Saganowski, S. (2025). Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience. Royal Society Open Science, 12(6), 241778. 

• Pandey, S., Gupta, R. (2025). To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control. Motivation and Emotion, 49(1), 46-61. [full text]

• Röseler, L., Kaiser, L.,..., Pandey, S.,..., Schütz, A., … Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(1), 8. [link]

• Pandey, S., & Gupta, R. (2023). Happy faces facilitate inhibitory control under a narrow scope of attention. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). [link]

• Pandey, S*., & Gupta, R. (2023). Implicit angry faces interfere with response inhibition and response adjustment. Cognition and Emotion, 37(2), 303-319. [full text]

• Pandey, S., & Gupta, R. (2022). Irrelevant angry faces impair response inhibition, and the go and stop processes share attentional resources. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-12. [link]

• Pandey, S., & Gupta, R. (2022). Irrelevant positive emotional information facilitates response inhibition only under a high perceptual load. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-10. [link]

• Warda, S., & Pandey, S*. (2020). Pupil tracks statistical regularities: behavioral and neural implications. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 19(4), 729-731 [link]

• Pandey, S., & Gupta, R. (2019). Book Review: The influential mind: What the brain reveals about our power to change others. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1210. [link]

Preprints/under review 

• Aczel, B.,  Szaszi, B., Clelland, H., ..., Pandey, S.,..., Nosek, B. Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. 

• Brodeur, A., Valenta, D.,..., Pandey, S.,...,Mandas, M. (2025). Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science (No. 195). I4R Discussion Paper Series. [link]

• Brodeur, A., Mikola, D.,..., Pandey, S.,..., Zhong, Y. (2024). Mass reproducibility and replicability: a new hope. I4R Discussion Paper Series 107. The Institute for Replication (I4R). [link]

Conference Full/Oral Talk

• Pandey, S. & Osinsky, R. (08-11th July 2025). Individual sensitivities to reward and punishment outcomes predict frontal theta activity in approach avoidance conflict. 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology, Krakow, Poland

• Pandey, S. & Gupta, R. (9-11th December 2023). Perceptual processing determines how emotional information influence response inhibition. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. [Recorded Talk] 

• Pandey, S. & Gupta, R. (8-10th December 2022). Irrelevant angry faces impair response inhibition, and the go-and-stop processes share attentional resources. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. [Recorded Talk] 

• Pandey, S. & Gupta, R. (20-22nd January 2021). Positive, not negative, emotions facilitate response inhibition under high load. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India [Slides] 

Conference Flash/Blitz Talk

• Pandey, S., &  Gupta, R (July 27-30, 2022). Role of Implicit Emotion in Response Inhibition and Response Adjustment. CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada. [Recorded Talk] 

Conference Poster Presentation

• Pandey, S. & Osinsky, R. (18-21st June 2025). Mid-Frontal Theta Contrasts Approach-avoidance vs. Approach-approach vs. Avoidance-avoidance Conflict. PuG2025. Psychology and Brain, Wurzburg, Germany.

• Pandey, S. & Osinsky, R. (29-01st June 2024). Does mid frontal theta activity correlate with complex decision making during approach avoidance task PuG2024. Psychology and Brain, Hamburg, Germany.

• Pandey, S. & Gupta, R. (26-29th July 2023). Irrelevant happy faces facilitate and interfere with inhibitory control under a narrow and a broad scope of attention, respectively. Cogsci 2023. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023. Sydney, Australia.

• Pandey, S. & Gupta, R. (22-24th June 2023). What is in the emotion? How and where is it? Then, we know how it affects inhibitory control. 8th Annual Meeting of Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS 2023), School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

• Pandey, S., &  Gupta, R (Dec 12-17, 2022). Irrelevant positive emotional information facilitates response inhibition only under a high perceptual load. Noninvasive brain stimulation: Advances in research and clinical practice. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhingar, India 

• Pandey, S. (13-19th January 2020). Modeling Religiosity: Faith, trust & Loss-aversion. TAPMI-Max  Planck Chinese Academy Winter School on Bounded Rationality 2020, Manipal, India

Invited Workshops/Seminars

• Pandey, S., & Stoet, G. (June 22-24, 2023). Best Practice for Open, Shareable, Reproducible Experiments Using PsyToolkit. 8th Annual Meeting of Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS 2023), School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. [Link]

• Pandey, S., George, N., & Jain, M. (March 2, 2023). Designing surveys and behavioral experiments in Psychology. 32nd annual convention of National Academy of Psychology, Ahmedabad University, India [Link]

Sessions on Philosophy of Science  

• Jagini, K., Pandey, S., Naika, M., Koley, M., & Barve, S. (June 22-24, 2023). Open Science Initiative India (OSII). 8th Annual Meeting of Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS 2023), School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy [Link] [Recorded Talk]

• Lodha, S., & Pandey, S. (June 22-24, 2023). Mindfulness Integrated Lab (MIL): Creating a More Enriching and Healthier Workspace. 8th Annual Meeting of Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS 2023), School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy [Link]

Technical Skills 

➢ Programming Languages: MATLAB, R, C#, Python

➢ Software Packages: Brainvision, PsyToolkit, Psychopy,  PsyToolbox,  E-prime, SR Experiment Builder, JASP, SPSS, UNITY, Inkscape

➢ Skills: EEG, Eye-tracking, Psychophysics Experiment Design, EEG, Machine learning 

Membership

Annual membership, International Organization of Psychophysiology (IoP)

Annual membership, Deutchland Psychological Society, Germany

Annual Membership: Association for Cognitive Scince India

Annual Membership: Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)

Annual Membership: Cognitive Science Society

Life time membership: Indian Academy of Neuroscience

Professional Training 

• Aug 12, 2024- Aug 17, 2024. Analysing Neural Time Series (ANTS) Data. Mike X Cohen, Sincxpress, Bucharest, Romania

• Dec 12, 2022 - Dec 17, 2022. Lecture Course on Noninvasive brain stimulation: Advances in research and clinical practice. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhingar, India

• Oct 20, 2022 - Oct 21, 2022. Workshop on EEG/ERP analysis, Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive Science, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India

• Jun 12, 2021 - Jun 12, 2021. Workshop on Eye Tracking: A Practical Introduction, NeroNet Centre for Mind, Brain, and Behavior and Asia Pacific Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, India

• Jun 24, 2019 - Jun 29, 2019. Workshop on Brain, Computation and Learning , Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

Grants/Awards/Scholarships

• Travel Award from India-EMBO Non Invasive Brain Stimulation, IIT Gandhinagar, December 12-17, 2022

• Travel Award from the TAPMI-Max Planck Chinese Academy Winter School on Bounded Rationality, Jan 13-19, 2020, Manipal

• CBCS merit based scholarship,  M.Sc Cognitive Science, 2015-2017, University of Allahabad

Tests

• Qualified for Indian National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professor in Psychology (Nov 17) 

Extra Curricular Responsibilities 

• Maintenance Secretary, Hostel 13, House of Titans, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, May 2019 - June 2020

• Department Coordinator, Institute Research Scholar Companion Program (IRSCP), Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, July 2019 - June 2020

• General Secretary, Hostel 13, House of Titans, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, July 2021 - May 2022

• Member, COVID task force, IIT Bombay, Oct 2021 - April 2022

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