Profesorado e Investigación
Directorio
Goyal, Namrata
Profesora adjunta, Departamento de Dirección de Personas y Organización en Esade
Profesora contratada doctora URL
Investigadora, GLEAD - Leadership Development Research Centre
Formación académica
- Ph.D. in Social Psychology. The New School for Social Research
- M.A. in Social Psychology. The New School for Social Research
- B.A. Psychology and Communication Studies. York University
Biografía
La profesora Namrata Goyal realizó una beca posdoctoral en la Columbia Business School tras doctorarse en Psicología Social por la New School for Research de Nueva York. Licenciada cum laude en Psicología y Estudios de la Comunicación por la York University de Toronto.
Sus intereses investigadores se centran en tres ámbitos: normas sociales, cultura y toma de decisiones y juicios. En concreto, investiga de qué modo las normas sociales configuran las memorias, las consecuencias positivas y negativas de romper las normas sociales y cómo afectan las creencias en el karma en las conductas antisociales p. ej., la venganza y prosocial p. ej., la ayuda.
Sus investigaciones se han publicado en numerosas revistas académicas, como el Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives in Psychological Science, el Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology y la Developmental Review, y se han presentado en medios tan populares como la BBC.
Publicaciones destacadas
- Goyal, N., Savani, K. & Morris, M. W. (2025). Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 121, 104816. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104816.
- Goyal, N., De Gregori, L., Liu, Y. & Savani, K. (2025). Moral Absolutism Drives Support for Bans: Unpacking Ideological Differences in the Moral Philosophies of Conservatives and Liberals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 129 (5), pp. 788-815. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000464.
- De keersmaecker, J., Schmid, K., Roets, A. & Goyal, N. (2024). Rationally blind? Rationality polarizes policy support for colour blindness versus multiculturalism. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63 (1), pp. 70-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12667.
- Goyal, N. & Miller, J. G. (2023). Beliefs in inevitable justice curb revenge behaviours: Cultural perspectives on karma. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (4), pp. 732-745. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2933.
- Goyal, N., Savani, K. & Morris, M. W. (2023). Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104458.
- Goyal, N. & De keersmaecker, J. (2022, February). Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, pp. 195-198. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.009.
- Goyal, N., Adams, M. M., Wice, M., Sullivan, S. & Miller, J. G. (2022). Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping. Cognition and Emotion, 36 (7), pp. 1361-1373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2118237.
- Verma, D. K., Khanra, S., Goyal, N., Das, B., Khess, C. R. J., Munda, S. K. & Ram, D. (2020). Absconding during inpatient care from a tertiary psychiatric hospital: A comparative study. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 43 (5), pp. 467-467.
- Goyal, N., Adams, M. M., Cyr, T. G., Maass, A. & Miller, J. G. (2020). Norm-based spontaneous categorization: Cultural norms shape meaning and memory.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118 (3), pp. 436-456. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000188.
- Goyal, N., Wice, M., Aladro, A., Kallberg-Shroff, M. & Miller, J. G. (2019). Culture and the development of views of agency: Perspectives From storybooks, parents, and children. Developmental Psychology, 55 (5), pp. 1096-1110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000671.
- Goyal, N., Wice, M. & Miller, J. G. (2019). Ethical issues in cultural research on human development. Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences (pp. 1891-1904). Springer Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5251-4_51.
- Miller, J. G., Wice, M. & Goyal, N. (2018). Contributions and challenges of cultural research on the development of social cognition. Developmental Review, 50, pp. 65-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2018.03.003.
- Wice, M., Howe, D. & Goyal, N. (2018). The influence of gestures of appreciation on gratitude and helping: Exploring the role of culturally variable reciprocity norms. TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 25 (2), pp. 263-271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM25.2.7.
- Goyal, N. & Miller, J. G. (2018). The Importance of Timing in Reciprocity: An Investigation of Reciprocity Norms Among Indians and Americans. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49 (3), pp. 381-403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117746239.
- Goyal, N., Wice, M., Kinsbourne, M. & Castano, E. (2017). A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words The Influence of Visuospatial and Verbal Cognitive Styles on Empathy and Willingness to Help. Social Psychology, 48 (6), pp. 372-379. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000318.
- Miller, J. G., Goyal, N. & Wice, M. (2017). A Cultural Psychology of Agency: Morality, Motivation, and Reciprocity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12 (5), pp. 867-875. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617706099.
- Adams, M., Chauhan, V., Goyal, N., Miller, J. & Wice, M. (2015). Gender, culture and power: Investigating spousal transgressions in India and the United States.
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