I have wide interests in cognitive science, spanning under three verticals.
Cognitive Control
Cognitive control, Action monitoring, Conflict Processing
Emotion regulation, Affect, Meditation
Social Cognition
Decision under risk and uncertainty
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., Clelland, H., ..., 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.,..., Schütz, A., … 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]
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]
Pandey, S., & Gupta, R (July 27-30, 2022). Role of Implicit Emotion in Response Inhibition and Response Adjustment. CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada. [Recorded Talk]
Pandey, S. & Osinsky, R. (01-06th Sep 2025). Individual Sensitivities to Reward and Punishment Outcomes Predict Mid Frontal Theta Activity in Approach Avoidance Conflict. ESCoP2025. 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, UK. [accepted, could not attend]
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