Skip to main content

Arathy Puthillam

Ph.D. Student, Management

Arathy Puthillam is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Rady School of Management. Her research interests lie at the intersections of social, moral, and political psychology. Specifically, she draws on methods and theories from social and moral psychology to investigate interpersonal and institutional harm and wrongdoing. Her work further explores moral judgements and social groups in the Indian context. In addition, she has an interest in meta-science - specifically in internationalizing psychology to better understand our social worlds. Puthillam holds an M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Mumbai and a B.A. in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai. Prior to graduate school, she worked at Monk Prayogshala, a not-for-profit research organization in India, where she developed measures of political ideology and studied the dark triad personality traits.