PhD in Psychology from IIT Delhi; M.A in Psychology from University of Delhi; B.A (Honours) in Psychology from Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
Prof. Garima Rajan is Assistant Professor – Psychology at FLAME University. She received her PhD in Psychology from IIT Delhi. She holds a Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Delhi.
Prof. Garima has a total work experience of over six years as a Teaching Assistant and was associated with IIT, Delhi, and Mississippi State University, USA. Currently, she is teaching Positive Psychology, Methods of Psychological Testing, and Social Psychology. Her broad area of research interests lies in psychometrics, positive and cognitive psychology.
Her doctoral research work focused on documenting several psychological, affective, and cognitive benefits of yoga, meditation, and associated positive practices using a mixed-method approach. Her research incorporated qualitative semi-structured interviews, psychological self-report assessments, cognitive tasks, and experimentation, along with the development of a smartphone application PsyEx for the purpose of data collection. She has examined executive functioning and emotion regulation in positive and negative symptom dimensions of schizophrenia for her Master’s thesis and self-conscious emotions and emotion regulation in depression and bipolar affective disorder for her Undergraduate Honours thesis. She has published and presented her research work in national and international journals and at numerous conferences of repute. She is an active member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), International Congress of Psychology (ICP), National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and National Positive Psychology Association (NPPA). Along with her robust research aptitude, she has also demonstrated a strong scholastic orientation during her formal academic training in psychology.
In her spare time, she enjoys singing, reading, and travelling.