KANEEZ FATIMA

Kaneez Fatima received her master's degree in psychology from university of Kashmir, where she worked on a master's dissertation titled "Life satisfaction in relation with Hope and Religiosity". She is a PhD student at IIT Roorkee working in cognitive psychology. Her PhD research work includes investigation of higher cognitive processes like emotion regulation, specifically the nature of cognitive reappraisals and inhibitory control in enhancing the effect of extinction of conditioned fear responses. Outside of work she enjoys reading fiction and writing.

• B.A in Psychology, Govt. Degree College for women, University of Kashmir.
• M.A in General Psychology, University of Kashmir.

• Movie Fans and Low Anxiety profiler are more Psychologically Resilient towards COVID-19
• Community Currency: A Qualitative Study of Problematizing Indian Time Bank.
• Exploring stages of Grief in Parents of Hearing Impaired Children.
• Effects of Fear Sensitivity and Emotional Reactivity on Memory Update.
• Intern for a project titled “Cognitive effects of Mantra chanting” sponsored by Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Division, Ministry of Education.

• Accepted for presentation at the 8th edition of the European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS), at the Collège de France, located at 11 Pl. Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris, France.
• Acceptance for poster presentation titled “Influence of Trait Anxiety and Movie Preferences on Pandemic Resilience and Preparedness" at 65th TeaP conference 2023, Germany.
• Presented a talk on “Does fear generalization and avoidance generalization involve similar or distinct neural structures?” at a Student Talk at SYNAPSE Neuroscience Symposium 2021 by IISER Thiruvananthapuram IISER Tirupati on 4th December, 2021.
• Poster display on “Movie Fans and Low Anxiety profiler are more Psychologically Resilient towards COVID-19” at the 13th California Cognitive Science Conference on 16th April 2022. (view poster)
• Presented a poster on “Coping with the Pandemic: Influence of Movie preference and Trait Anxiety” at the 32nd Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) on 3rd March 2023.
• Presented a talk titled “Effect of Creative Cognitive Reappraisal on Extinction of Conditioned Responses” at 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, ACCS 2023, held at IIT Kanpur.
• Virtual Poster presentation titled ‘Efficacy of style of Reappraisal on Fear Extinction and Recall’ at Neuroscience 2024.
• Presented a poster titled “Effect of Reappraisal on Extinction of Conditioned Fear Response” at XLII Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences 2024 (IAN-2024), held at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, November 12-14, 2024.
• Presented a poster titled “Effect of Inhibitory Control Training on Extinction of Conditioned Fear” at 11th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, ACCS 2024, held at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) from 13th-15th December 2024.

• Made a virtual presentation sharing my work and ideas at Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University. (link)

• Indian Academy of Neuroscience

• Verma, A., Sridhar, S., Dar, K.F. Asthana MK (2024) Scope and challenges in the implementation of Time Bank in India: a qualitative study. Discover global society 2 , 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-024-00040-0