Research Areas:

Attraction; Cross-cultural and developmental differences; Impression formation; Judgment and decision making; Leadership; People as intuitive pragmatic politicians, principled theologians, and prudent prosecutors.

Academic Positions:

Distinguished Professor, IIM Bangalore:  July 2010 - present
Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) 1997 - 2010
Associate Professor, NUS, 1990 - 1997
Senior Fellow, NUS, 1988 - 1990
Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, 1979 - 1990
Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, 1973 - 1979
Lecturer, Patna University, Patna 1968 - 1973

Other Professional Appointments:

President, National Academy Of Psychology (NAOP), 2011
Principal, Third Asian Summer School, The Asian Association of Social Psychology, Kunming City, China, 2011
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, LKY School of Public Policy, NUS, 2005 - 2009
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Design & Environment, NUS, 2001 - 2009
Chair, Department Search Committee (Senior Hires), NUS, 2007 - 2008
Chair, Department Search Committee, NUS, 2005 - 2006
Member, International Advisory Panel, School of Management, NUS, 2002 - 2003
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, International Congress of Applied Psychology, 2002
Deputy Head, Department of Social Work & Psychology, NUS, 1997 - 2000
Member, University Board of Selection, NUS, 1997 - 2000
Member, Psychology Panel, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, 1983 - 1987
Member,  UGC Standing Advisory Committee on Center of Advanced Study, Department under - Special Assistance, and Departmental Research Support, 1985 - 1988
Chairman, Organizational Behavior Area, IIM Ahmedabad, 1982 - 1984 
Chairman, Research & Publications, IIM Ahmedabad, 1980 - 1982

Awards:

Inspiring Mentor Award, Office of Alumni Relations, NUS, 2009
Long Service Awards, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, NUS, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010
Fellow, National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) (India), 2008 
Psychology National Award for 1990;  S. P. Psychology Trust of India, 1993
Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA), 1993
Fellow, Association of Psychological Science (APS), 1993
Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), 1993
Fellow, The Singapore Psychological Society (SPsS), 1992
Fellow, The British Psychological Society (BPsS), 1992

Publications in International Journals

Applied Psychology

Journal of Applied Psychology

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Applied Psychology: An International Review

Developmental Psychology

Child Development

Cognitive Development

Developmental Psychology

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Journal of Genetic Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

British Journal of Social Psychology

European Journal of Social Psychology

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Journal of Research in Personality

Journal of Social Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Personality and Social Psychology Compass

Representative Research in Social Psychology

Related Areas

Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society

Genetic, Social and General Psychology Monographs

International Journal of Psychology

Learning and Motivation

Psychologia

Psychonomic Science

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Singh, R., Simons, J.J.P., Self., W.T., Tetlock, P.E., Bell, P.A., Ong. P. & Kaur, S. (2011). Cultural and developmental differences in norm- and meta-norm enforcement: Does collective blame compensate for individual blame? In P. Singh, P. Bain, C. H. Leong, G. Mishra. & Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.), Psychological, group, and cultural processes in changing societies: The Progress in Asian social psychology series (Vol. 8, pp. 109-122). New Delhi: MacMillan 

Singh, R. (2011). Imputing values to missing information in social judgment. In R. M. Arkin (Ed.), Most underappreciated: 50 prominent social psychologists describe their most unloved work (pp. 159-164). New York: Oxford University Press.

Singh, R. (2011). Information integration as a basic cognitive process. In G. Mishra (Ed.), Handbook of psychology in India (pp. 73-98). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Singh, R. (2010). Religious majority-minority and gender differences in models of crossed categorization effects: Some evidence for social development. In J. Pandey, T. N. Sinha, &  A. K. Sinha (Eds.), Dialogues for development (pp. 230-251). New Delhi, India: Concept.

Singh, R. (2006). Gender among multiple categories: Social attraction in women but interpersonal attraction in men. In R. Crisp & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Multiple categories and cross-categorizations: Processes, models, and applications (pp. 189-208). East Sussex: UK:   Psychology Press.

Singh, R. (2006). Dealing with norm and meta-norm violators: Cultural differences in thoughts or motivated actions? In Q. Jing, M. R. Rosenzweig, G. d'Ydewalle, H. Zhang, H.C. Chen, & K. Zhang  (Eds.), Progress in psychological science around the world (Vol. 2:  Social and applied issue, pp. 261-278). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Singh, R. (2000). [Psychology in] Southeast Asia. In A. R. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology (Vol. 7, pp.403-411). New York: Oxford University Press.

Singh, R. (1991). Two problems in cognitive algebra: Imputations and averaging-versus-multiplying. In N. H. Anderson (Ed.), Contributions to information integration theory (Vol. II, Social, pp. 143-180).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Singh, R. (1988). Attitudes and social cognition. In J. Pandey (Ed.), Psychology in India: The state-of-the-art (Vol. 2, pp. 19-54). New Delhi: Sage.

Singh, R. (1981). Prediction of performance from motivation and ability: An appraisal of the cultural difference hypothesis. In J. Pandey (Ed.), Perspectives on experimental social psychology in India (pp. 21-53).  New Delhi: Concept Learning.

Singh, R. (1981). Experimental social psychology is real and scientific: A reply to Durganand Sinha. In J. Pandey (Ed.), Perspectives on experimental social psychology in India (pp. 228-239).  New Delhi: Concept Learning.

Singh, R., Palaniswamy, S. P., & Pradhan, Y. N. (1981). An information integration theory analysis of attractiveness of bus systems. In N. K. Jaiswal (Ed.), Scientific management of transport systems (pp. 335-345).  Amsterdam: North Holland.

Singh, R. (1977). Set-size of information and interpersonal judgment: Methodological and theoretical considerations. In B. De & D. Sinha (Eds.), A perspective on psychology in India (pp. 75-101).  Allahabad: D. Sinha.