I have wide interests in cognitive science, spanning under three verticals.
Cognitive Control
Cognitive control, Action monitoring, Conflict Processing
Emotion regulation, Affect, Mindfulness, Meditation
Social Cognition
Decision under risk and uncertainty
Mass Psychology
Eudaimonia and Flourishing
Computational modelling and AI/ML
Modelling cognitive processes
Applications of Machine learning
Additionally, When I need a break from my core research, I enjoy exploring topics in meta-science.
Replicability and Reproducibility
(Some papers share more than one theme: for example, emotion and cogntive control; risk and conflict, etc.)
Cognitive Control
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]
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]
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]
Computational modelling/ML
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. [link]
Meta Science
Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., ..., Pandey, S.,..., Nosek, B. (2025). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, (in press)
Chuan-Peng, H., Xu, Z.,..., Pandey, S.,..., Azevedo, F. (2025). Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(3), 25152459251357565. [link]
Röseler, L., Kaiser, L.,..., Pandey, S.,..., Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(1), 8. [link]
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]