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Behavioural Science researche with expertise in climate change | Skilled in RCTs + Qualitative research

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I am a behavioural science research analyst specialising in environmental and climate psychology with 6 years of experience. I excel in designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions through experimental (RCTs, pre-post design, impact assesments) and qualitative methodologies. My research expertise in climate change risk, mitigation and adaptation behaviours, sustainable mobility and cross cultural behaviour helps me develop better programs for pro-environmental and sustainable behaviours. I have expertise in R, SPSS and JAMOVI for statistical analysis and have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals (Nature human Behavior, J. of Environmental Psychology).

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Political Psychology
• ☆ Social Psychology
• ☆ Environmentalism
• ☆ Curriculum Planning & Development
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ R
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Survey Design & Methodology
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Gray Literature Search
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Course Content Writing
• ☆ Grant Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

PhD Scholar

Christ University

June 2024 - December 2025

Assistant Professor

Sampurna Montfort College

February 2020 - December 2020

Asst. Professor

Acharya Institutes

October 2018 - July 2019

Education

PhD (Psychology)

Christ University

June 2022 - December 2025

MSc Psychological Studies (Psychology)

University of Glasgow

September 2017 - October 2018

BA Psychology, English & Journalism (Psychology)

Bangalore University

August 2014 - June 2017

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Aishwarya Iyer, Erin M. Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel, Nicholas A. Coles, Kim Peters, A. E. van ’t Veer, Maria Montefinese, Nicholas P. Maxwell, et al. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages . Nature Human Behaviour.

Aishwarya Iyer, K. Alphonsa Jose (2025). Climate change and health risk perception in India: A replication of the climate change risk perception model . Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Aishwarya Iyer, Sandra J. Geiger, Jana K. Köhler, Zenith N. C. Delabrida, Karla A. Garduño-Realivazquez, Christian A. P. Haugestad, Hirotaka Imada, Carya Maharja, Daniel C. Mann, Michalina Marczak, et al. (2025). What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging . Psychological Science.

Aishwarya Iyer, Alphonsa Jose K (2024). A decade of climate change concern in India: Determinants of personal and societal climate concern . Environment and Social Psychology.

Iyer, A., Jose, K.A. (2024). A decade of climate change concern in India: Determinants of personal and societal climate concern. Environment and Social Psychology. 9 (8). doi: 10.59429/esp.v9i8.2921 .

Legate, N., Nguyen, T.-V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., Tajchman, Z., Zsido, A.N., Zrimsek, M., Chen, Z., et al.(2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119. (22).

Legate, N., Nguyen, T.-V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., Tajchman, Z., Zsido, A.N., Zrimsek, M., Chen, Z., et al.(2022). Erratum: A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022) 119 (e2111091119) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111091119) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119. (36).

Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Adamkovic, M., Adamus, S., Albalooshi, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., et al.(2022). Erratum: Publisher Correction: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample (Nature human behaviour (2022) 6 6 (880-895)) . Nature human behaviour. 6. (6). p. 897-898.

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., et al.(2022). Erratum: Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic (Nature human behaviour (2021) 5 8 (1089-1110)) . Nature human behaviour. 6. (9). p. 1318-1319.

Dorison, C.A., Lerner, J.S., Heller, B.H., Rothman, A.J., Kawachi, I.I., Wang, K., Rees, V.W., Gill, B.P., Gibbs, N., Ebersole, C.R., et al.(2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries . Affective Science. 3. (3). p. 577-602.

Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Adamkovic, M., Adamus, S., Albalooshi, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., et al.(2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample . Nature Human Behaviour. 6. (6). p. 880-895.

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., et al.(2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic . Nature Human Behaviour. 5. (8). p. 1089-1110.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACT

Aishwarya Iyer, Vaishnavi Agarwal (2024). Understanding euthanasia beyond biology: exploring the psychosocial determinants with respect to euthanasia decisions from Indian mental health professionals . 2 Understanding euthanasia beyond biology: exploring the psychosocial determinants with respect to euthanasia decisions from Indian mental health professionals.

PREPRINT

Aishwarya Iyer, Sandra Jeanette Geiger, Jana Katharina Köhler, Zenith N. C. Delabrida, Karla Alejandra Garduño-Realivazquez, Christian A. P. Haugestad, Hirotaka Imada, Carya Maharja, Dan Mann, Michalina Marczak, et al. (2023). What We Think Others Think About Climate Change: Generalizability of Pluralistic Ignorance Across 11 Countries .

Aishwarya Iyer, Christopher Kijilian, MohammadHasan Sharifian, Bastien Paris, Miguel Alejandro A. Silan (2022). PSA Study Capacity Report 2022-2023 .

Iyer, A., L, T. V., & Chakravarty, S. (2020, July 9). Self-regulatory Solitude: A Qualitative Exploration of Solitude in Indian Youth. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uxm97 .

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Razavi, P., Gorur, K., Iyer, A. & Silan, M. (2023, July 3). Complexities and Lessons in Researching Culture-Specific Experiences. Observer, 36 (4). Retrieved from: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/gs-researching-culture-specific-experiences .