Professorat i Investigació
Directori
Goyal, Namrata
Professora adjunta, Departament de Direcció de Persones i Organització a Esade
Professora contractada doctora URL
Investigador, GLEAD - Leadership Development Research Centre
Formació acadèmica
- 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
Biografia
La professora Namrata Goyal va completar una beca postdoctoral a la Columbia Business School després de doctorar-se en Psicologia Social per la New School for Research de Nova York. És graduada cum laude en Psicologia i Estudis de la Comunicació per la York University de Toronto.
Els seus interessos investigadors se centren en tres àmbits: les normes socials, la cultura i la presa de decisions i judicis. Concretament, investiga com les normes socials configuren les memòries, les conseqüències positives i negatives de trencar les normes socials i com afecten les creences en el karma en les conductes antisocials p. ex., la venjança i prosocial p. ex., l'ajuda.
Les seves recerques s'han publicat en nombroses revistes acadèmiques, com el Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives in Psychological Science, el Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology i la Developmental Review, i s'han presentat en mitjans tan populars com la BBC.
Publicacions destacades
- 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.