Ankita Sharma

Ankita Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur | IITJ · Department of Humanities and Social Science

PhD

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Current research interests are Decision Making, Social Cognition, and Wisdom by using questionnaire and naturalistic decision experiments.

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Ankita Sharma and Abhishek Sharma explore the nexus of the Hindi language culture with the Bhagavad Gita and other Indian religious scriptures, as well as its manifestation in different Indian wise leadership case studies. In general, global leaders need to be aware that Hindi is an important part of a diverse array of Indian languages. Two researc...
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Integrative negotiation is often considered an ideal way to achieve a joint outcome. Although this ideal nature may lead to successful joint negotiation, wisdom, which is considered to maintain a balance of interest for the common good, may not be part of it. This study investigates the relationship between wisdom, emotional regulation, and integra...
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Mental health is as essential as physical health for law enforcement officers to protect our country and communities. Law enforcement professionals frequently encounter stressors that can lead to maladaptive coping strategies and contribute to elevated levels of stress, anxiety, and depression (SAD). This study aimed to evaluate the emotional compe...
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National institutes are hubs of diverse cultures. IIT Jodhpur is one such institute where we are exposed to people of diverse cultural backgrounds. Often, the prior perspective of people affects the tolerance and acceptance of diversity in present situations. The participants (N=100, 50=female, 50=male) responded to the measurements of openness to...
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The present pilot study aims to investigate the cortical circuits involved in context adaptability and gain initial insights into the neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying flexible behavior. To accomplish this, we designed a novel first-person perspective picture-based decision-making task, using stick figures and objects, where eight participants...
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Amid education reformations, rejuvenation of the public school system is necessitated. Unlike Private schools, Indian public schools often hold unfavourable perceptions for the quality of education it provides. As Government schools are under the microscope, it can be agreed that they need an advanced curriculum that concentrates on vocation, acade...
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DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN AND MEN WISE NEGOTIATORS
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Misinformation, or Technologically manipulated information, has a long history of shaping people's social lives. Research in this area has spiked recently, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, agencies like WHO and UNO issued many advisories to combat the negative impact of widely circulated misinformation. Technological dev...
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Negotiation is a day-today phenomenon to achieve success in everyday life. In contrast to successful negotiation, we advocate for wise negotiation that includes a balance of perspectives and multiple perspectives. The present study aims to find the conception of wise negotiation among organizational employees and the relationship of wise negotiatio...
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Artificial wisdom, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), aims to design machines that can grasp and learn any intellectual phenomenon-like contemplation, learning and decision-making-as a person can. AGI is still in its early stages of development. Human cognition underpins AI, where people build learning models and datasets for AI t...
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Objective We initiated a systematic review to determine the impact of the SARS-COV-2 virus and its long-term effects - in both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases - on people with or without psychosis. We envisioned that this would give us an insight into effective clinical intervention methods for patients with psychosis during and after the pandem...
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Zoom fatigue is a new word in the dictionary. In this post-covid world, online interaction is consistent and demanding on its recipients. Typing behaviour, a complicated task, has thus become a crucial aspect of our lives that can be indicative of our inner workings. Emerging literature calls for understanding the link between fatigue, online inter...
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Smartphones have become an essential part of our life, especially since the Corona outbreak. The recent literature suggests that smartphone behavior can be used for deducing a lot of psychological concepts. The present work, 'DeepMood,' aims to study the potential association between the users' keystrokes and mood identification. This study will ex...
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Wisdom is needed to make the world a better place. Adding wisdom in negotiation implies that all parties feel heard and understood, and interests are balanced, at the process level it has components from the PMC model (Grossman et.al, 2020) and considers emotion and empathy. We call this process as wise negotiation.
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Personal growth occurs with life experiences and, most importantly, reflecting on negative life experiences. This article argues that personal wisdom development involves pain and suffering yet feels more satisfying in retrospect. The present study attempts to explore, 1) if people with different personality dispositions differ in the choices and h...
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Employees' perceptions of what is and should be fair have been recognized as one of the cognitive factors that influence their attitudes and behaviors at work. Organizations have also realized that employees' involvement and extra contribution play a big role in today's ultra-competitive business world. But the empirical exploration of the link bet...
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The corporate world's present situation indicates that this is the perfect time to concentrate on organizational commitment because the economy is poor, and most organizations can no longer guarantee "a job for life." Workers are either serving mechanically or feeling compelled to be more committed to an organization. Organizations of the 21st cent...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, SARS-COV-2 virus-form transformations, and ensuing psychosocial stress stemming from environmental change and isolation, has led to the conjecture that there would be a surge in psychosis cases. Intuitively, patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), like Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder and Major Depression, would be particu...
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In the changing world of work, including increasing working parents and work from home, work-life balance is receiving increased attention from HR executives looking to improve employee productivity. Talent retention and getting active and responsible contributions from existing employees are permanent concern for organizations because of their hig...
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The societal cost of ASD is enormous, and the concept of broader autism phenotype (BAP) adds more weight to the situation. The recent reporting of the higher prevalence rate of ASD in India [1] (Chauhan et al., 2019) and social impairment implications suggest a serious attempt to understand this situation. Present work reports finding from a pilot...
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Orndorff and his colleagues [1] suggested that if a neural activity is considered a treatment variable instead of outcome, it widens the scope of research and has a specific implication for social neuroscience. Given this, the empirical evidence is collected and analyzed where neural activity as self-manipulation design through neurofeedback traini...
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This paper put forwards the argument that the way a person approaches the life (approach toward life: openness and action orientation) leads to more pain/frustration/regret in general, yet in retrospect, this feels more satisfying. This may be a common narrative in the development of wisdom through negative life experiences. The experimental eviden...
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Purpose: This study examines information processing during consumer decision making on online platforms as influenced by gender differences and psychological tendencies. Further exploration is ‘how much information is too much information; leading to infobesity.’ Methodology: The methodology to address the objective included the questionnaires for...
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Personal growth occurs with life experiences and most importantly handling and reflecting on negative life experiences teaches us more (Mickler & Staudinger, 2008; Staudinger & Gluck, 2011). The distinction between personal and general wisdom is based on the differences in the development process and well-being paradox. Personal wisdom development...
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According to the report of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and GSM Association (GSMA), in India, there is a huge gender gap in mobile ownership. The report says (GSM Association) Forty two percent of women in India are aware of the Internet and can use mobile phone; yet women hold 28 percent less likeliness than men to own a mo...
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Title: Decision making under uncertainty in online Purchasing Behavior Decision making is certainly the most important task of human life and it is often a very difficult one, depending upon the degree of knowledge we have about the outcome of our actions. The domain of decision analysis models fall between two extreme cases, one “pole” on this sca...
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The present study takes a naturalistic decision-making approach to examine the role of personality in information processing in consumer decision making. In the technological era, most of the information comes in the form of HTML or similar language via the internet; the processing of this situation could be ambiguous, laborious and painful. The pr...
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According to the report of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and GSM Association (GSMA), in India, there is a huge gender gap in mobile ownership. The report says (GSM Association) Forty two percent of women in India are aware of the Internet and can use mobile phone; yet women hold 28 percent less likeliness than men to own a mo...
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There is growing interest in the concept of wisdom as an ideal end point of development in psychological science. However, in its fourth decade still,the biggest concern is to reach the consensus about its definition and description. The present study focuses on wisdom descriptors from Indian adolescents and adults‟ perspective and comparing it wit...
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Several psychological theories and models of wisdom have been developed. Despite converging trend from different theories and models in the understanding of wisdom, intervention plans or attempts to facilitate wisdom have been meager. In this study, different components of the MORE Life Experience Model of Wisdom were taken as intervention targets,...
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World is going through demographic shift and concerns for elderly segment is increasing and because research in the field of gerontology is a relatively new science, lot of suggestions and recommendation are yet to be explore for the better understanding. On this note, present study attempted to explore recommendation by Smith (2000) to consider ex...
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Hindu scriptures are full of details of wisdom, happiness and satisfaction. The western conceptualization of these concepts does not match with the Indian notion, values and practices. Individual with high level of wisdom said to view life in different perspective than those with low level of wisdom and hence their sources and meaning of happiness...
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The new mantra of successful aging is 'stay active-stay healthy-stay happy', but how far this activity mantra as universally desirable condition work for all elderly population with their heterogynous demographic characteristics. Hence present study aims at exploring relationship of activities with subjective well-being with consideration to socioe...

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My research question is 'predicting information load processing by different psychological tendencies in males and females'. The DV is ordinal and have 3 levels. I have 4 continuous IVs; I would like to see if there is any interaction between psychological tendencies and gender in predicting information load processing. Which statistics should I use and how. Please suggest.

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