Workshops, Seminar, Invited Lectures

1.      Belhekar, V.M. and Bhargava, R. (2025 Feb). Development and Validation of the 65-faceted Mumbai University-Personality Inventory (MUPI). Paper presented at 29th International and 60th National Conference of IAAP (Indian Academy of Applied Psychology) organized by Department of Psychology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema on 26th-28th February 2025.

2.      Bhargava, R. and Belhekar, V.M. (2025 Feb). A Psycholexical Investigation of Personality in Tharu Tribal Community of Uttar Pradesh. Paper presented at 29th International and 60th National Conference of IAAP (Indian Academy of Applied Psychology) organized by Department of Psychology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema on 26th-28th February 2025. (Best Paper Award)

3.      Belhekar, V. and Bhargava, R. (2025 Feb). Accessibility Crisis in Psychometrics: Issues and Solution to Decolonize Psychometrics in Global South. 34th Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology. Accepted for Oral Presentation. Submission ID: 414

4.      Bhargava, R. and Belhekar, V. (2025 Feb). Exploring the Dimensions of Perceived Personality Traits of Range Forest Officers using a Psycholexical Approach. Convention of the National Academy of Psychology. Accepted for Presentation. Submission ID: 417

5.       Shah, P., Bhargava, R. and Belhekar, V. (2025, Feb). Development of Word Count Data Corpus for Gujarati Literature and Personality dictionary. Convention of the National Academy of Psychology. Accepted for Presentation. Submission ID: 420.

6.      Chaudhari, S. Bhargava, R. Belhekar. (2025 Feb). Exploring Sentiments in War and Conflict: A Text-Analysis of Indo-China and Indo-Pakistan Narratives in Literature. Convention of the National Academy of Psychology. Accepted for Presentation. Submission ID: 416

7.      Belhekar, V. and Bhargava, R. (2024 Nov). Development and Validation of the Mumbai University Personality Inventory (MUPI): An Indigenous Tool for Measurement of Personality in Five Indian Languages. Presented at Second International Conference on Psychometrics Organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka and the Bangladesh Psychometric Society (BPS). Saturday, November 16, 2024 

8.      Belhekar, V. and Bhargava, R. (2024 Nov). Developing M-OPC: Need, Benefits and Challenges of an Open, Online and Multilingual Psychometric Assessment. Presented at Second International Conference on Psychometrics Organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka and the Bangladesh Psychometric Society (BPS). Saturday, November 16, 2024. 

9.      Bhargava, R. and Belhekar, V. (2024 Nov). Finetuning the Lexical Approach for the Development of Interpersonal Trait Theories and Psychometric Tools. Presented at Second International Conference on Psychometrics Organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka and the Bangladesh Psychometric Society (BPS). Saturday, November 16, 2024. (Winner of Best Presenter Award)

10.   Belhekar, V.M. (2024). Gandhian literature and text analysis. Seminar organized by Mahatma Gandhi Peace Centre and Department of Applied Psychology. October 03, 2024.  

11.   Dittakavi, S & Belhekar, VM. (2024). “Predicting Personality with Machine Learning using the Five Factor Model and personality disorder traits”. Oral presentation at NAOP, Vishakhapatnam. submission ID: NAOPABST000281.

12.   Belhekar, V.M. & Bhargava, R. (2024). “Development of Mumbai University Personality Inventory: An indigenous tool for measurement of personality in Indian languages” oral presentation at NAOP, Vishakhapatnam. ID: NAOPABST000452.

13.   Belhekar, V.M. & Bhargava, R. (2023). Lexical Gandhi: Understanding the sentiments in Gandhi’s writings. At the National Seminar on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. Mahatma Gandhi Peace Centre, University of Mumbai. October 2, 2023. 

14.       Belhekar, V.M. & Bhargava, R. (2023). Lexical Gandhi: Understanding Structure of Topics in Mahatma Gandhi’s writings using Data Analytics Text-Analysis Machine Learning Techniques. At the National Seminar on the occasion of Gandhi Punyatithi (Martyrs' Day). Mahatma Gandhi Peace Centre, University of Mumbai. Discussant: Dr. Shrikant Botre. January 30, 2023. 2:15 – 4:15pm.  

15.   Chauhan, A., Belhekar, V., Sehgal, S., Singh, H., Prakash, J. (2022). Examining collective emotional response to COVID-19 pandemic in 19 countries. The arts and Science Symposium, Brighton Futures, Brighton University, U.K. 

16.   Heffern, J. Vader, V., Gish, H., Belhekar, V.M., Mellott, R. (2020). Acculturation and Personality among Indian students using the NEO-PI-3. Paper at American Psychological Association, 2020.

17.   Belhekar, V.M. and Vader, V. (2020). Personality structure in Marathi and English for Maharashtrians: A Psycholexical Investigation. Gerard Saucier (In Chair). Paper Presented at Society for Cross-Cultural Research Conference (SCCR 2020), Seattle, WA, USA. February 26-28, 2020.

18.   Vader, V. & Belhekar, V.M. (2020). MUFFI 2 – A culture sensitive measure of personality based on the Indian context. Paper Presented at Society for Cross-Cultural Research Conference (SCCR 2020), Seattle, WA, USA. February 26-28, 2020. 

19.   Belhekar, V.M. (2020). Uncovering the Susegado Self: Understanding of Goan Personality through Psycholexical Lens. Chair of Symposia at 27th Annual Conference of Bombay Psychological Association (BPA), Goa. February 12, 2020. 

20.   Belhekar, V.M. (2020). Understanding Culture-Personality Research in India. At Symposia at 27th Annual Conference of Bombay Psychological Association (BPA), Goa. February 12, 2020.

21.   Belhekar, V.M. (2020). Understanding Goan personality through Konkani Self-Descriptors. At Symposia at 27thAnnual Conference of Bombay Psychological Association (BPA), Goa. February 12, 2020. 

22.   Belhekar, V.M. (2020). Statistical reasoning for Psychology. 27th Annual Conference of Bombay Psychological Association (BPA), Goa. February 12, 2020.

23.   Belhekar, V.M. & Bhargav, R. (2020). A Sentiment Analysis Approach to Investigate Followers Evaluation of Political Leaders in India. 27th Annual Conference of Bombay Psychological Association (BPA), Goa. February 12, 2020.

24.   Paper at American Psychological Association, "Using Factor Analytic Techniques to Delineate Personality Structures Among Indian College Students", San Francisco, CA. August 11, 2018. J. K. Heffern, Northern Arizona University; Vinita Vader, and Vivek Belhekar, PhD, University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; and Ramona N. Mellott, PhD, Northern Arizona University (A-10). 


25.   Narcissistic Personality and the Five- Factor Model: Paper Presented at Indian Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), 2017, Jaipur, India.  

26.   Personality theory and Personality Disorder: Paper Presented at Indian Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) 2017. 

27.   Behavior Economics and Conservation Psychology for Sustainable Ecological Management. Session  at Conference organized by Amity University, Panvel. Feb 27, 2017. 

28.   Symposium on “Structural Equations Modeling using R” at Indian Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) 2017. Jaipur.

29.   On Possibility of integration of Personality Theory and Personality Disorders: The case of The Narcissistic Personality, Borderline Personality and the Five-Factor Model in Urban Problems. 8th India IGU International Conference organized by SNDT University, Pune. 5-6 November 2015. 

30.   Policy paper on Issues in Personal Mental Health. On Behalf of working group for same, 8th India IGU International Conference organized by SNDT University, Pune. 5-6 November 2015.

31.   The Robustness Modular Nature of Human Reasoning: Ecological and Evolutionary Prediction Regarding Cheater Detection, Fairness and Altruism. Paper Presented at Indian Science Congress Association 102nd Session at University of Mumbai in Anthropological and Behavioral Sciences Section. 3-7 January 2015.

32.   Nature of Fifth Dimension of Personality: SEM-CFA and Experimental Investigation of Openness to Experience. Presented at Indian Science Congress Association 102nd Session at University of Mumbai in Anthropological and Behavioral Sciences Section. 3-7 January 2015.

33.   Conservations Of Migratory Birds: Behavioral Economic Analysis of Cooperation Among the Visitors and Locals. Presented at 24th Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Bhopal. 12-14 December 2014.

34.   The Landscape Preferences for Children: Testing the Evolutionary Predictions in Three Different Groups. Presented at 24th Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Bhopal. 12-14 December 2014.

35.   The Narcissistic Personality and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Presented at the 40th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists (NACIACP 2014), SRM University, Chennai, 28 Feb – 02 march 2014.

36.   Family and Personality: Understanding, and Modeling Complex Relationship between Family, Personality and Conflict and Management. Invited paper presented in symposium at International Conference organized by BPA, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Mumbai, SNDT University, and Sophie College.1-3 Dec 2013

37.   Pathless is not hopeless: Structure of Hope in Indian Context. Paper Presented at annual convention of the Bombay Psychological Association, 2013 January 8.

38.   Structure of Hope among young adults and its concurrent and predictive validity. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Life Skills Education. RGNIYD, 7-9 December 2012 at Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

39.   Just World Scale: Psychometric properties and initial validation. Paper Presented in the annual convention of the Bombay Psychological Association, 2012. The paper is with Daniel Pereira. 

40.   Truth of Lie and Red Herring: Dimensionality and Utility of Lie Scale in Personality Assessment: Paper presented in the meeting of CBR-UPE in the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Mumbai, 2011

41.   Marathi Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: Paper Presented in the annual convention of the Bombay Psychological Association, 2011. 

42.   Heuristics: Experimental investigation of Intelligence and Personality. Presented a paper at the “Workshop on Experimental Social Sciences’, organized by Center for Computational Social Sciences, UPE, December 28-29, 2009.

43.   Depression, anxiety and representativeness heuristics: Experimental study of base rate fallacy. Center for Computational Social Sciences, UPE Discussion paper-5. Presented in the meeting of CCSS, UPE, 2009. 

44.   What Predicts the achievement? Critical evaluation of the EI as compared to other psychological constructs. Paper Presented at National Association of Psychology (NAOP), March 2010, Bangalore.

45.   The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Psychopathology Issues and Insights from personality theory about mental illness. Two-Day National Seminar on Psychology In India December, 2008.

46.   Intelligence, emotional intelligence, and Five-Factor Model of personality as predictors’ Academic achievement. Paper Presented at Conference of Bombay Psychological Association, Mumbai, January 12, 2010. 

47.   The Personality correlates of creativity. Paper presented at National seminar on ‘the Five-Factor Model and Factor Analysis’. University of Pune, January 2008. (Only presented paper based on PhD degree thesis)

48.   The Assessment of Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments. Paper presented at National seminar on ‘the Five-Factor Model and Factor Analysis’. University of Pune, January 2008.

49.   Academic achievement: Exploring the role of intelligence, emotional intelligence, and Five -Factor Model of personality. Invited Paper Presentation at Research Meeting at Department of Education, University of Mumbai. September, 2008. 

50.   Dissecting a Golden Goose: Personality and Creative achievement. Paper presented at National seminar on ‘Psychological approaches to Literature’, M.D. College, Mumbai. December 13, 2006. 

51.   Role of loss and grief in rehabilitation of handicapped. Paper presented at ‘National seminar on Carrier Counseling and Rehabilitation of Handicapped’, Department of Applied Psychology, Mumbai University. 20, November 2006. 

52.   Trait psychology: problems in cultural studies. Paper presented at ICSSR Inter- Disciplinary Seminar on Psycho-Social Perspectives on Multiculturalism. Mumbai University, Mumbai. 2006, March.

53.   Grief Counseling in HIV. Presented at ‘National Seminar for Field Testing of Manual for HIV /AIDS Counseling’ developed by WHO, UNESCO, and NACO organized by NACO, MDACS, and SNDT University on for counselors from India at SNDT University, Mumbai; November 5, 2004.