Hritik Gupta

Hritik is a 2nd-year Cognitive Science student at IIT Delhi and a true Psychology enthusiast at heart. He completed his undergrad in B.Sc. Psychology (Hons.) from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. After that he gained experience working under different labs, companies, and projects as a researcher for 2 years. His exciting experiences include working as a behavioural science researcher, game design researcher, psychometric consultant, and product researcher. Later, he worked at Vision Sciences Lab (under Dr. Julian de Freitas) and Embodied Social Cognition Lab (under Dr. Nicole Noll) at Harvard University, which motivated him to pursue the path of research and academia. His research interests include the areas of social and moral cognition, emphasizing topics such as the theory of mind, empathy, and shared understanding of emotions, among others. He likes to contextualize his work in the evolutionary science and picture. When not curious about all of these with flooding questions, he likes to spend his time doing origami, reading books, performing theatre, and exploring museums and monuments.