Social Sciences
Divita Singh
Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)
+91.79.61911526
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Divita_Singh
Research Interests: Cognition - Emotion Interaction; Emotion; Visual Attention
Profile
Dr. Divita Singh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University and completed her PhD in the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar. Her doctoral research focused on understanding the attentional control mechanisms underlying temporal selection, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the attentional blink and emotion-induced blindness. Following her PhD, she worked as a DST-CSRI Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at IIT Kanpur. During her postdoctoral research, she investigated the self-prioritization effect (SPE) and examined the attentional control mechanisms underlying self-prioritization. She uses behavioural experimental methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying human cognition. Her research interests include visual attention, temporal attention, emotion, and self-bias.
Research
My research lies at the intersection of cognition and emotion, with a particular focus on how emotional states influence cognitive processes, including attention, perception, and self-referential processing.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Beniwal, U., & Singh, D. (2026). Examining language entropy and cognitive performance: evidence from a diverse linguistic context. Language and Cognition, 18, e11.
- Parekh, H., & Singh, D. (2025). Influence of affective experiences and motivational orientations on consumer decision-making under risk: valence predicts risky choices for hedonic but not utilitarian products. Current Psychology, 1-12.
- Singh, D., Pandya, M., Chakraborty, D., & Mehta, K. (2025). Out of sight, out of mind: Spatial cueing reduces the attentional cost of emotional distractors in emotion-induced blindness. Journal of Vision, 25(8):18, 1–9.
- Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2023). Spatial distribution of emotional attentional blink under top-down attentional control. Cognitive Processing, 24(1), 153-159.
- Singh, D., & Karnick, H. (2022). Self-prioritization effect in children and adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 726230.
- Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2020). Attention interacts with emotion to drive perceptual impairment of images in an RSVP task. Collabra: Psychology, 6(1).
- Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2017). Emotion Induced Blindness Is More Sensitive to Changes in Arousal as Compared to Valence of the Emotional Distractor. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1381.
- Singh, D., & Sunny, M. M. (2015). (No) Role of Emotion in Emotion-Induced Blindness. Perception, Vol. 44(S1) 1–415.
Teaching
- PSY101 - Introduction to Psychology
- RES101 - Introduction to Research Methods
- PSY210 - Cognitive Psychology
- PSY416 - Psychology of Emotions