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In the story of the stone soup, a soldier convinces a village to come together and make soup out of ingredients that they were all individually hoarding in their houses, while going hungry, by the expedient of placing an allegedly magical stone in a pot of water. I think of my role in a similar light; I serve as an excuse for young people to ask interesting questions and learn about the nature of behavior.

I was interested in figuring out the mysteries of our galaxy when I was young and took up Physics as my undergraduate degree. It turns out human beings are much more mysterious. Serendipitously, I am here studying human behavior. My thesis lies in the confluence of psychology and economics, where I study the structural and psychological factors influencing people's inclination to forego later rewards and choose 'now' using innovative gaming experimental paradigms and computational models.

Hi, Hari here. I think about quitting. My work focuses on defining the principles behind when people decide to quit an activity. I use behavioral field experiments and large-scale datasets to describe this phenomena. Besides my academic shenanigans, I also run and play video games. Lastly, this bio does not encompass my current lived experiences as a PhD student, which briefly can be described as transient and ever-growing.

After drifting across many areas of the mind, I have settled on asking questions about the nature of intelligence and its measurement, and hopefully answering them, for my PhD. Apart from that, I ponder about the nature of desire and its dynamics over one's life span, and the behavioral patterns of rule-following and rule-breaking, and their underlying psychological and experiential aspects.

For my Ph.D., I am working on human decision-making, particularly formation, mental representation, reversals of preferences, and the role of attention in the phenomena in domains including and beyond consumer choice. I use behavioural experiments and Bayesian modelling approaches to decipher the cognitive mechanisms involved in decision-making. I spend my leisure time reading Indian philosophies.

Interested in social cognition.

I like procrastination, games and iced coffee. Made two of them my research topic.

I'm an Master's student, interested in the intersection of AI and Cognitive science. I'm specifically intersted in metacognitive capabilities of LLMs. On the side, I dabble a little in videogames and writing.

I seek to understand the dynamics and content of consciousness, what determines when something enters awareness, the mechanisms underlying it, the nature of the associated subjectivity, and the extent to which we have control versus how much unfolds autonomously. I am also interested in trait-based and contextual modulators of these dynamics, as well as their applications to goal-directed behavior and self-regulation.

I am interested in studying anxiety and decision-making, particularly how the stochastic nature of self-identification impacts an individual's anxiety levels in various environmental stimuli.
When I'm not in the lab, you can find me around the campus hunting flowers or stalking cats. And even though I have lots of hobbies, I usually end up enjoying a good nap or naming my plushies—because, let's be real, I'm literally just a girl.

I have always been interested in human behaviour and thought biology would be the most direct path to understanding it. Turns out, I hate molecular bio methods. So, here I am, dabbling my hands in cognitive science. Currently, I am working with Hari on a qualitative study exploring Doom loop behaviour among gamers.