SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE, PHD

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE, PHD 14/493 Old Hospital Road, Chinsurah, Hooghly W.B. India. URL: CURRENT POSITION Visiting Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management Indore (Humanities and Social Sciences area) 4July present PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Research fellow under the postdoctoral fellowship grant by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; hosted at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Research Assistant in Marketing area at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 1Dec 2014 to 27June Sep 2013 to 30Nov 2014 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Undertaken research in preference, decision making and social cognition for 6 years, provided consulting for market research, have been awarded research grants from the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and worked as ad-hoc reviewer for journals. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Cognitive Science with teaching assistantship Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar Dissertation: Role of attentional scope on altruistic decisions Grade: Cumulative grade point of 9.5 out of 10.0 Awarded medallion for outstanding research

2 SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE PAGE 2 M. Sc. In Cognitive Science with merit scholarship Center of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad Dissertation: Role of Attention in complex decisions: Further Explorations of Unconscious Thought Theory Grade: Cumulative grade point of 8.65 out of 9.0 B. Engg. In Computer Engineering University of Pune, India Grade: First class RESEARCH I am broadly interested in cognitive mechanisms related to preference, judgment and decision making. My current interests span the psychology of money, affective valuation, influence of price, cognitive processes like attention, cognitive consequences of scarcity and social preferences. GRANTS PROJECTS Postdoctoral research grant for "How money influences experiences: The influence of price changes on affective valuation by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India Co-Investigator in Influence of reference prices on purchase intentions and hedonic valuation of gold in India, Grant by the Gold Policy Centre, IIM Ahmedabad supported by World Gold Council Co-investigator in A Cognitivist exploration of the concept of Privacy Behaviour and Experience, Grant by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India TRAVEL Visiting research student at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Invited by Dr. Ben Newell, School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Funded by School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney and IIT Gandhinagar, India. (14-29 August 2012). PUBLICATIONS Peer reviewed publications 1. Mukherjee, S. (2016). Isn't it yet time for Indian government to have a behavioral science unit? Psychological Studies, 61(2), Mukherjee, S., & Sahay, A. (2016). Predicted satisfaction from simultaneous evaluation of prosocial and pro-self employee bonus schemes: Towards a new form of management strategy for corporate social spending. Psychological Studies, 61(1),

3 SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE PAGE 3 3. Sahay, A., Mukherjee, S. & Dewani, P. P. (2015). Price discount framings on product bundles with shipping surcharges in the Indian market: Examining the weighted-additive and referencedependent models. Journal of Indian Business Research, 7(1), Mukherjee, S., Manjaly, J. A., & Kumar, N. (2015). Role of money in creative cognition. In J. A Manjaly & B. Indurkhya (Eds.) Cognition, Experience & Creativity. (pp ). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. 5. Srinivasan, N. & Mukherjee, S. (2014). Even 'unconscious thought' is influenced by attentional mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37(1), (Commentary). doi: /s x x 6. Mukherjee, S., Nargundkar, M., & Manjaly, J.A. (2014). Monetary primes increases differences in predicted life satisfaction between students at new and old Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Psychological studies, 59(2), Mukherjee, S., Srinivasan, N., & Manjaly, J.A. (2014). Global processing fosters donations toward charity appeals framed in an approach orientation. Cognitive Processing, 15(3), doi: /s Mukherjee, S., Manjaly. J.A., & Nargundkar, M. (2013). Money makes you reveal more: Consequences of monetary cues on preferential disclosure of personal information. Frontiers in Psychology 4:839. doi: /fpsyg Mukherjee, S. (2013). Concerns with attempts by neuroeconomics to answer the philosophical question Is it rational to donate money for charity?'. Frontiers in Psychology 4:585. doi: /fpsyg Srinivasan, N., Mukherjee, S., Mishra, M. V., & Kesarwani, S. (2013). Evaluating the role of attention in the context of unconscious thought theory: Differential impact of attentional scope and load on preference and memory. Frontiers in Psychology 4:37. doi: /fpsyg Mukherjee, S. & Srinivasan, N. (2013). Attention in preferential choice. Progress in Brain Research, 202, doi: /b Srinivasan, N. & Mukherjee, S. (2010). Attribute preference and selection in multi-attribute decision making: Implications for unconscious and conscious thought. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, doi: /j.concog Manjaly, J. A. & Mukherjee, S. (2009). Cognitive Evolutionary Psychology: A prospective but temperate view. Sandhan: Journal of Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 9(2), Papers under review and under preparation 1. Mukherjee, S., Mehta, V., & Manjaly, J. A. Can lighting influence self-disclosure? Under review in Frontiers in Psychology.

4 SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE PAGE 4 2. Mukherjee, S., & Sahay, A. Price and Nocebo effects: Price evaluations in presence of negative product information. Under review in Journal of Consumer Marketing. 3. Tybur, J.M., et al. Parasite Stress and Pathogen Avoidance Relate to Distinct Dimensions of Political Ideology Across 30 Nations. Under review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (SM is a co-author in the collaborative project). 4. Mukherjee, S., Sahay, A., Pammi, C.V.S., & Srinivasan, N. Clearing Discrepancy About Prospective Affective Judgments Regarding Small Gains and Losses: Implications for Prospect Theory. Under review in Judgment and Decision making. 5. Mukherjee, S., Srinivasan, N., Manjaly, J. A. & Kumar, N. Role of attentional scope in altruistic monetary donations. Under preparation. 6. Akpinar, E., Mukherjee, S., Srinivasan, N., Tewari, S. & Vohs, K. D. Money and religion as 7. Sahay, A., Mukherjee, S., & Pammi C.V.S. Neuropricing. Under preparation. SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATIONS 1. Mukherjee, S. (2014, December). Motivational influences of priming money. Invited talk as an emerging psychologist at 24th Annual convention of National Academy of Psychology India (NAOP), Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. 2. Mukherjee, S.*, & Srinivasan, N. (2013, March). Issues with the definition of unconscious thought in Unconscious Thought Theory. In 20th conference on Toward a Science of Consciousness of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India. 3. Mukherjee, S.*, Kumar, N., & Manjaly, J. A. (2013, Jan). Consequence of priming money on insight problem solving. In 100th Indian Science Congress at Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.[Poster]. 4. Mukherjee, S.*, Kumar, N., & Manjaly, J. A. (2012, December). For your eyes only: Simply priming money facilitates insight problem solving. In 22nd Annual convention of National Academy of Psychology India (NAOP) at Christ University, Bangalore, India. 5. Mukherjee, S.*, Srinivasan, N., Manjaly, J., & Kumar, N. (2012, November). Effect of attentional scope and load on monetary donations. In Annual conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) at Minneapolis Convention Center & Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA. [Poster]. 6. Mukherjee, S.*, Nargundkar, M., & Manjaly, J. A. (2012, September). The effects of priming money on predictions of life-satisfaction at IITs: Preliminary findings. In National Conference on Positive Behaviour: Perspectives and Applications (NCPBPA-2012) at Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University.

5 SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE PAGE 5 ACADEMIC SERVICE Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology, (Cognitive Science) Ad-hoc reviewer for journals including Business and Society (Sage), Asian Journal of Social psychology (Wiley). and Association for Psychological Science (APS) Students Research Award 2012, 2013, Member, Senate for academic performance committee (SAPC) at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar ( ) MEMBERSHIPS Member, Association for Psychological Science (APS), USA Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association, India Member, Executive Council Member ( ) and Co-web administrator (2015-), National Academy of Psychology, India TEACHING Adjunct faculty at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar for course Consumer Decision Making (August 2015 November 2015). Adjunct faculty at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar for course Behavioural Economics (Jan May 2015). Adhoc visiting faculty at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad for short courses Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Economics and Research Methods (2014). OTHER INFORMATION Founding Co-ordinator of CognoBytes ( which aims to reach cognitive science to people from multiple backgrounds. Adhoc consultant for Tobii AB Sweden regarding eye-tracking in market research PERSONAL DETAILS Gender: Male Marital status: Married Year of birth: 1984 Languages spoken: English, Hindi, Bengali REFERENCES Dr. Narayanan Srinivasan Professor and Head, Center of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India nsrini@cbcs.ac.in

6 SUMITAVA MUKHERJEE PAGE 6 Dr. Arvind Sahay Professor Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, India asahay@iimahd.ernet.in Dr. Jaison A. Manjaly Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India jmanjaly@iitgn.ac.in Updated: July 2016