Publications
Salvador, C. E., Idrovo Carlier, S., Ishii, K., Torres Castillo, C., Nanakdewa, K., San Martin, A., Savani, K., & Kitayama, S. (2023). Emotionally expressive interdependence in Latin America: Triangulating through a comparison of three cultural zones. Emotion.
Kitayama, S., Salvador, C., Nanakdewa, K., Rossmaier, A., San Martin, A., & Savani, K. (2022). Varieties of Interdependence and the Emergence of the Modern West: Toward the Globalizing of Psychology. American Psychologist.
Winner of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2023 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize
Nanakdewa, K., Madan, S., Savani, K., & Markus, H. R. (2021). The salience of choice fuels independence: Implications for self-perception, cognition, and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Madan, S., Nanakdewa, K., Savani, K., & Markus, H. R. (2020). The paradoxical consequences of choice: Often good for the individual, perhaps less so for society. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Media
Madan, S., Nanakdewa, K., Savani, K., & Markus, H. R. (2021). Research: What Makes Employees Feel Empowered to Speak Up? Harvard Business Review.
Presentations
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Nanakdewa, K., Savani, K., Salvador, C.*, Rossmaier, A., Ishii, K., Masuda, T., Shahnawaz, G., Pandey, N., San Martin, A., & Kitayama, S. (2024). Analytic Cognition Without Self-Enhancement in India: Another Form of Interdependence? Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
Madan, S.*, Nanakdewa, K., Xiang, J. & Savani, K. (2023). Choosing to Make a Difference: Salience of Choice Increases Consumers’ Support for the Environment. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Sheetal, A., & Savani, K. (Nov 24, 2022). Belief in Free Choice Leads to Pro-Immigration Attitudes. Invited talk at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Yi, H., & Zou, X. (2022). Structural Foundations of Concrete Outcomes: Embeddedness Fosters Gossip, Trust, and Performance. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Sheetal, A., & Savani, K. (2022). Belief in Free Choice Leads to Pro-Immigration Attitudes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Yi, H., & Zou, X. (Jun 2, 2022). Structural Foundations of Concrete Outcomes: Embeddedness Fosters Gossip, Trust, and Performance. Invited talk at Renmin University Business School, Beijing, China.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Sheetal, A., & Savani, K. (2022). Belief in Free Choice Leads to Pro-Immigration Attitudes. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Savani, K., Salvador, C., Rossmaier, A., Ishii, K., Masuda, T., Shahnawaz, G., Pandey, N., San Martin, A., & Kitayama, S. (2022). Analytic Cognition Without Self-Enhancement in India: Another Form of Interdependence? Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Savani, K., Salvador, C., Srivastava, A., Shahnawaz, G., Pandey, N., San Martin, A., Kühnen, U., & Kitayama, S. (2022). The Social Function of Disengaging Emotions: Pride Predicts Happiness in India, Especially When Happiness is Shared with Others. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Zou, X. (2020). Closer to Colleagues but Further from a Promotion: How Gossip Shapes Affective and Cognitive Trust. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Nanakdewa, K.*, Madan, S., Savani, K. (2020). Choosing to Make a Difference: The Salience of Choice Increases People’s Support for Costly Environmental Policies. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K., Chao M. M., Savani, K. (2019). Seeing Colorblindness Clearly: Aligning Theory and Measurement for Implicit Theories of Diversity. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, USA.
Nanakdewa, K., Madan, S., Savani, K., Markus, H. R. (2019). It’s My Choice: A Choice Mindset Activates a Sense of Independence. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Portland, OR, USA.
Nanakdewa, K., Chao M. M., Savani, K. (2019). Seeing Colorblindness Clearly: Aligning the Measurement of Diversity Ideologies with Theory. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Portland, OR, USA.