Keynote Speakers

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  J David Pincus

  Senior Psychologist, Employee Beneft Research Institute, Research and Development Department, Leading Indicator Systems, USA.

  J. D. Pincus is Senior Psychologist at Leading Indicator Systems focusing on emerging methods for measuring emotion and motivation. He developed the unified pyramid model of human motivation and the image-based AgileBrain measurement technique. He recently published the motivational model in the peer-reviewed journal Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. His seminal article on the concept of motivation in applied psychology, published in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, has been cited in 181 subsequent papers. He is a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank. He was named Researcher of the Year by PMRG and named to the Power List by Senior Market Advisor magazine.
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  Joshua Liao

  Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Systems&Population Health,Associate Chair for Health Systems,Department of Medicine,University of Washington,USA.

  Dr.Liao is a physician and faculty member in the University of Washington (UW) Schools of Medicine and Public Health.At UW,he is also the Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine.Trained in internal medicine at the Brigham&Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School,Dr.Liao is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr.Liao’s work focuses on making health care better by understanding and addressing decision-making and behaviors,and their intersection with health systems factors.He is a leading US expert on translating decision-making principles into health system redesign,and has also provided leadership to large,multi-year pragmatic studies that test the impact of behavioral economics interventions on health outcomes.
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  Crystal Reeck

  Temple University, USA.

  Dr. Crystal Reeck is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Fox School of Business, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Applied Research in Decision Making. She completed both her Bachelor’ s and Master’ s degrees at Stanford University, and she holds a Ph. D. in psychology and neuroscience from Duke University. She joined the faculty from Columbia Business School, where she served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Decision Making and Negotiations Cross Disciplinary area. To trace the processes underlying consumer behavior and decision making, her research uses a range of methods including traditional behavioral approaches, psychophysiological measures, eye-tracking and MouselabWeb, and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Her research investigates a number of topics, including self-control, emotion and emotion regulation, social processes, and choice architecture interventions. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals that span multiple fields, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Marketing, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Dr. Reeck has won several awards for her research as well as her teaching. In addition to awards from Temple, she has also been honored by the Behavioral Science and Policy Association, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. Her work has been featured in media outlets, such as Bloomberg Businessweek, and funded by various foundations and national granting agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association.
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  Darrin Hodgetts

  Professor, Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand.

  Darrin Hodgetts is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University,New Zealand. His research interests reside in the interdependent domains of the social determinants of health, work, poverty, housing, food, human security, social change, and community. Recent book length outputs include the Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Inter-cultural Psychology, Social Psychology and Everyday Life (2nd ed), and Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities. I am also a co-editor of two international journals (Journal of Community&Applied Social Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) and an editorial board member of International Perspectives in Psychology and Political Psychology.
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  Maike Neuhaus

  Lecturer, The University of Queensland, Australia.

  Dr.Maike Neuhaus,PhD,is a positive psychology lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Queensland in Brisbane,Australia.Dr.Maike completed a Master's degree in Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin,Germany,and a PhD specialising in behaviour change strategies at The University of Queensland,Australia,where she was the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award.Dr.Maike has had a strong focus on application of research insights throughout her career and was pivotal in the development and lead of consultancy services for two research centres,through which she ensured that her research was having a real-world impact.Most recently,Dr.Maike is focused on advancing the science of self-leadership by complementing it with insights from positive psychology research.Dr.Maike's favourite work is to spread the science of human flourishing and support others to thrive in life through her speaking engagements,workshops and coaching.
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  Guneet Inder Jit Kaur

  Assistant Professor, Central University of Rajasthan, India.

  Dr. Guneet Inder Jit Kaur is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sports Psychology, School of Sports Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan. She was previously the HOD and Research Coordinator of the Department of Psychology in JAIN (Deemed-to-be-University), Bangalore. She is a University Gold Medallist having done her Masters from Panjab University, Chandigarh with specialisation in Sports Psychology, Organisational Behaviour, Health Psychology and has earned her PhD in the area of Excellence in Sports and Academics. She is the Associate Editor of UGC Care listed journal- Indian Journal of Psychology and the Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Psychology and Education. As a Sport Psychologist, she has worked with athletes in the areas of mental training for performance enhancement. She has published 27 research articles and has presented 36+ research presentations at 66 International and National Conferences/Seminars and has recently been awarded Prof. Deepak Bhat Award for Best Paper Presentation in the session at the 56th National and 25th International conference of IAAP (2021). She has guided 4 M.Phil., 28 M.Sc. and 31 PGD sports psychology projects. She has been invited at various International and National conferences/seminars and has delivered 27 invited talks on diverse fields of Psychology. She has presented her research titled ‘Psychological Profile of High Achievers in Sports’ in the 15th World Congress of International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Taipei, 2021. She earlier presented ‘Triguna Personality and Mental Training: Significance of Grit and Enthusiasm for Excellence in Sports’ as a part of the Invited Symposium in the 8th World Congress on Mind Training for Excellence in Sport & Life, in Gavle (SWEDEN), from 12th-16th June, 2019 and was also a part of the Invited Symposium on ‘Sports Psychology’ at the ISSP 14th World Congress (2017) on Sport Psychology from July 10-14, held at University of Sevilla, Sevilla (SPAIN). Her research interests include Sports Psychology (Excellence, Peak Performance, Mental Toughness, PST and Paralympics), Health Psychology & Positive Psychology (Post Traumatic Growth, Resilience, Grit, Perfectionism and Life Skills), Social Psychology (Shared Identities), Organizational Behaviour (Competitive Psychological Climate) and Indian Psychology (Triguna Personality).