• Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic 

      Shalom, Diego E.; Serro, Maximiliano G. de Sousa; Giaconia, Maximiliano; Martínez, Luis M.; Rieznik, Andrés; Sigman, Mariano (2013-03-13)
      We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden ...
    • Crime and violence: Desensitization in victims to watchingcriminal events 

      Di Tella, Rafael; Freira, Lucía; Gálvez, Ramiro; Schargrodsky, Ernesto; Shalom, Diego E.; Sigman, Mariano (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization (e-ISSN: 1879-1751), 2019)
      We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices ...