Thus, in 1962 Psychological Research Wing was re-designated as Directorate of Psychological Research (DPR) to take on new areas of research related to morale, ideological convictions, group effectiveness, leadership behaviour, job satisfaction, high altitude effects, motivation, attitude, anthropometrics, civil-military relations and other problems related to Armed Forces. Meeting these challenges successfully, Directorate of Psychological Research (DPR) grew into a full-fledged Institute, Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) in 1982.

Charter of Duties:

• To conduct research on problems pertaining to selection of officers, placement and categorization of men, with a view to optimize the efficiency of the Armed Forces and to devise suitable standardized tests for personality, intelligence and aptitude assessment.
• To provide technical training to assessors who perform selection /assessment duties at various SSBs/AFSBs spread all over the country.
• To monitor and evaluate the selection systems vis-à-vis training and performance during service career.
• To conduct research in problems of organizational behaviour like psychological operations, ideological convictions, motivation, attitude, morale, leadership of the Armed Forces.
• To conduct research in human factors in man-machine systems and to study the effects of extreme environmental conditions on the psychological adjustment, efficiency and well being of service personnel.
• To conduct research in manpower planning with particular emphasis on personnel policy in various organizations of Defence.

Core Competence:

• Personnel Selection: This core competency area involves research on problems pertaining to selection of officers and placement and categorization of men with a view to optimize the efficiency of the Armed Forces, and to devise and standardize suitable tests of intelligence, aptitude and personality. Personnel selection also involves training of assessors in personality assessment of candidates through various psychological techniques. The validation of the selection system is done through follow-up studies, and officers are monitored upto five years of commissioning.
• Organizational Behaviour: Another major competence of DIPR lies in research for effective manpower planning with particular emphasis on personnel policy in various organizations of Defence. Development and conduction of orientation and training modules for enhanced workplace efficiency is a major concern. This core competence serves both the DRDO laboratories as well as the armed forces in unique ways by conducting research in the areas of psychological warfare, ideological convictions, motivation, attitude, morale, leadership behaviour, job satisfaction and organisational climate.
• Human Factors Engineering: Focus on human factors in compatibility with man-machine systems and to study the effects of extreme environmental conditions on the psychological adjustment, efficiency and well being of service personnel.
• Training: Training of assessors to be posted at SSB/AFSBs and BROs/ZROs is one of the important functions of this Institute. This Institute has conducted courses to impart training to Interviewing Officers upto the ranks of Major General and equivalents, Group Testing Officers (GTOs) courses, and Psychologists/Technical Officers (TOs). The Institute has also been imparting training to Junior Commissioned Officers/Senior Sailors and Senior Non-Commissioned Officers in the Testers Course. The Institute also extends its expertise to other Defence organizations and organized training courses on ‘Interpersonal relationship and personal effectiveness’ for officers in the office of the Chief Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence.  

Vision :

To emerge as a Center of Excellence in Military Psychology.

Mission :

To provide psychological support to the armed forces in selection, training, effective man-machine interface and motivation to enhance mental health and operational efficiency of the armed forces.

DIPR : A Journey                                                                              

·        A journey to serve the armed forces

·        A process to create & safeguard human capital

·        A strategic interface with armed forces rather than a technology on its own

  DIPR : A Mission to support  Armed Forces by undertaking R & D activities in areas of:

      ·      Personnel selection of officers and training of assessors

·      Strategic behaviour analysis, leadership effectiveness, motivation &  morale for  operational     efficiency

·      Extreme environmental adaptation & human engineering

·      To optimize human resource in our manpower-intensive combat force

·      To assist soldiers  to operate in varied and extreme environmental conditions

·     To fulfill unique operational requirement in  non-conventional warfare

 Shaping the behavior:

      ·        Combat Stress Management

·        Behaviour Training Modules

·         Military morale in LIC environment

·        Early warning & management of crisis behaviour

 Customizing the requirement:

      ·        Comprehensive Battery of  Cognitive Assessment

·        Driver Aptitude Test for Combat  Vehicles

·        Test for sharp shooters, snipers

·        Camouflage Detection Test

·        Aptitude Test for trade allocation

 Envisioning future R & D: Personnel Selection

      ·        Customized test development

·         Test development for non-traditional construct

·         Validation in simulated conditions

·         Profile- based personnel selection

·         Single use non-standardized test development

·         Scoring based on non-specific rules

·         Software-based test administration

 Envisioning future R & D: Cognitive Process

      ·        Threshold of mental workload

·        Loss of situational awareness

·        Multi-tasking & emotional regulation

·        Task-specific cognitive profiling

·        Camouflage detection

·        Cognitive restructuring in high altitude

·        Cognitive engineering for high-tech systems

·        Cognitive failure in suboptimal conditions

Envisioning future R & D: Strategic behavior

·        Critical factors in counter-propaganda

·        Strategic negotiation / interrogation

·        Conflict resolution in low intensity  operations

·        Social engineering in attitude change

·        Rumour formation & mass hysteria

·        Social triggers to fratricide/siblicide

 Planning for tomorrow:

      ·        Preparing soldiers for non-conventional warfare and LIC management (XI Plan)

·        Preparing soldiers against psychological warfare and development of a centre of psychological operations (XII Plan)

·        Preparing soldiers for extra-territorial warfare & global mission and selection of strategic forces (XIII Plan)

 Challenging the fraternity:

            ·        Opportunity to work with the largest groups of psychologists under one banner

·        Opportunity to apply idea-driven concepts into actual / simulated conditions

·        Job-analysis (rather than theory based) test development

·        Going beyond the pre-fabricated research designs and constructing a new one

·        Developing logistics not used traditionally

·        Creating an interface with other sciences like bio-engineering, computer sciences

·        Working in inhospitable terrain [desert, high altitude, LIC]

·        Inferences based on purposive sampling & for unanticipated conditions

·        Studying behaviour under non-conventional contexts

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