Dr. Mohita Junnarkar is currently working as Assistant Director and Assistant Professor at Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences, O.P. Jindal Global University. She completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from IIT Bombay in 2013. She has about 6 years of research experience and 3 years of teaching experience and has completed post-doctoral fellowship in the area of positive psychology focusing on assessment and validation of psychological scales from IIT Delhi in 2014. Her key teaching areas are applied positive psychology, psychometrics, adolescent development and cognitive psychology and her research areas are eyewitness testimony, psychometrics, and adolescent development. To her credit so far she has published about 14 research papers in national and international peer-reviewed indexed journals in the area of psychometric validation of positive psychology constructs and has a book chapter and two books to her credit. Currently, she is also serving as a reviewer for Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology and is member of several professional psychology organizations.
Education: Ph. D. (IIT Bombay)
Area of Specialization: Cognitive Psychology; Neuropsychology; Positive Psychology and Adolescent Developmental Psychology.
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