• Attraction by ingroup coherence drives the emergence of ideological sorting 

      Navajas, Joaquín; Zimmerman, Federico; Pedraza, Lucía; Balenzuela, Pablo (2023)
      The increasing political polarization is driving hatred and segregation, and these pose a threat to democracy. While disagreement on policy issues is increasing and receiving great attention, people are also becoming more ...
    • Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians 

      Espina Mairal, Santos; Bustos, Florencia; Solovey, Guillermo; Navajas, Joaquin (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
      The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
    • Partisanship predicts COVID-19 vaccine brand preference: the case of Argentina 

      Fumagalli, Elena; Krick, Candelaria Belén; Dolmatzian, Marina Belén; del Negro, Julieta Edith; Navajas, Joaquin (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun) ISSN 2662-9992 (online), 2023)
      The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of overcoming vaccine adoption resistance and addressing real and perceived barriers for efficient vaccination campaigns. One major problem faced by health systems around ...
    • Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcementand description- based economic preference worldwide 

      Navajas, Joaquín (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-03-02)
      Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context-dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases. But whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human ...
    • Demand Estimation under Uncertain Consideration Sets 

      Vulcano, Gustavo; Jagabathula, Srikanth; Mitrofanov, Dmitry (Operations Research (ISSN: 0030-364X), 2023-09)
      To estimate customer demand, choice models rely both on what the individuals do and do not purchase. A customer may not purchase a product because it was not offered but also because it was not considered. To account for ...
    • The Potential Footprint of Plant- Based Meat Adoption on Leading Crop Producers 

      Merener, Nicolás (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-12-30)
      Plant-based meat (PBM) has the potential to improve the global food supply chain on numerous environmental and societal dimensions. Some of these gains, derived from lower animal meat production, could disrupt the supply ...
    • A branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the time-dependent electric vehicle routing problem with time windows 

      Miranda Bront, Juan José; Lera-Romero, Gonzálo; Soulignac, Francisco J. (European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier, 2024)
      The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) within last-mile deliveries is considered one of the key transformations towards more sustainable logistics. The inclusion of EVs introduces new operational constraints to the models ...
    • Speech-induced suppression during natural dialogue 

      Gravano, Agustín; González, Joaquín E.; Nieto, Nicolás; Brusco, Pablo; Kamienkowski, Juan E. (Communications Biology (ISSN 2399-3642), 2024)
      When engaged in a conversation, one receives auditory information from the other’s speech but also from their own speech. However, this information is processed differently by an effect called Speech-Induced Suppression. ...
    • Implicit carbon prices: Making do with the taxes we have 

      Belfiori, Elisa; Rezai, Armon (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (Online ISSN: 1096-0449), 2024)
      Climate and fiscal policy interact closely. The former imposes explicit prices for carbon emissions, while the latter affects emissions implicitly. We study the correspondence between explicit and implicit carbon pricing ...
    • A Cross-Cultural Study of Everyday Moral Experiences 

      Navajas, Joaquín; Murray, Samuel; Jiménez_Leal, William; et al. (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
      Do people in different societies experience morality differently in everyday life? Using experience sampling methods, we investigate everyday moral experiences in a sample from 20 countries across 6 continents, thereby ...
    • Extreme Dry Spells and Larger Storms in the U.S. Midwest Raise Crop Prices 

      Cornejo, Magadalena; Merener, Nicolás; Merovich, Ezequiel (RedNIE Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía, 2024)
      The U.S. Midwest produces about a third of global corn and soybeans, two of the most important crops for humanity. Earlier literature has found that corn and soybean output is sensitive to weather in a nonlinear manner: ...
    • DUDF: Differentiable Unsigned Distance Fields with Hyperbolic Scaling 

      Fainstein, Miguel; Siless, Viviana; Iarussi, Emmanuel (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
      In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are ...
    • Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds 

      Navajas, Joaquín; et al. (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
      The aggregation of many lay judgements generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision making and financial forecasting. ...
    • Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries 

      Navajas, Joaquín; Freira, Lucía; et al. (Science Advance (ISSN 2375-2548), 2024-02-07)
      Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 ...
    • Optimal Carbon Offsets with Heterogeneous Regions 

      Belfiori, Elisa; Macera, Manuel (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-02-08)
      We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and vulnerability to climate change. Carbon emissions from production generate out- put losses - a negative climate externality - and a ...
    • Planificación docente para fomentar habilidades cognitivas básicas desde el aula. Un ejemplo de implementación concreto 

      Goldín, Andrea P; Gonzales Chaves, Clara María (Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 2024-03)
      Los resultados de las últimas evaluaciones de la calidad educativa evidenciaron que el sistema educativo argentino necesita un cambio. Simultáneamente, las ciencias del comportamiento han avanzado significativamente ...
    • The Long and Winding Road to Real-Life Experiments: Remote Assessment of Executive Functions with Computerized Games—Results from 8 Years of Naturalistic Interventions 

      Goldín, Andrea P; Vladisauskas, Melina; Paz, Gabriel O; Nin, Verónica; Guillén, Jesús A; Belloli, Laouen; Delgado, Hernán; Miguel, Martín A; Macario Cabral, Daniela; Shalom Diego E.; Forés, Anna; Carboni, Alejandra; Fernández-Slezak, Diego (Brain Sciences (e-ISSN 2076-3425), 2024-03-07)
      Mate Marote is an open-access cognitive training software aimed at children between 4 and 8 years old. It consists of a set of computerized games specifically tailored to train and evaluate Executive Functions (EF), a ...
    • Political Uncertainty and the Geographic Allocation of Credit: Evidence from Small Businesses 

      Penas, María Fabiana; Mâo-De-Ferro, Ana; Cerqueiro, Geraldo (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (e-ISSN:1538-4616), 2024-05-23)
      We investigate how banks change the geographic distribution of their small business loan portfolio when they face political uncertainty in some of the states where they operate. Using exogenous variation in gubernatorial ...
    • Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds 

      Navajas, Joaquín; et al. (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-12)
      The aggregation of many lay judgments generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds,” has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making and financial forecasting. ...
    • Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries 

      Navajas, Joaquín; et al. (Nature Human Behaviour (e-ISSN: 2397-3374), 2024-06-14)
      Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature ...