• A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents 

      Rodríguez Ferrante, Guadalupe; Goldín, Andrea Paula; Sigman, Mariano; Leone, María Juliana (NPJ Science of Learning, 2023)
      Schools start early in the morning all over the world, contrasting with adolescents’ late chronotype. Interestingly, lower academic performance (i.e. grades or qualifications) was associated with later chronotypes. However, ...
    • A branch-and-cut algorithm for the routing and spectrum allocation problem 

      Marenco, Javier; Bianchetti, Marcelo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      One of the most promising solutions to deal with huge data traffic demands in large communication networks is given by flexible optical networking, in particular the flexible grid (flexgrid) technology specified in the ...
    • 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 ...
    • A lesion model of envy and "Schadenfreude" : legal, deservingness and moral dimensions as revealed by neurodegeneration 

      Santamaría-García, Hernando; Baez, Sandra; Reyes, Pablo; Santamaría-García, José A.; Santacruz-Escudero, José M.; Matallana, Diana; Arévalo, Analía; Sigman, Mariano; García, Adolfo M.; Ibáñez, Agustín (2017-08-21)
      The study of moral emotions (i.e. Schadenfreude and envy) is critical to understand the ecological complexity of everyday interactions between cognitive, affective, and social cognition processes. Most previous studies in ...
    • A massive experiment on choice blindness in political decisions : confidence, confabulation, and unconscious detection of self-deception 

      Rieznik, Andrés; Moscovich, Lorena; Frieiro, Alan; Figini, Julieta; Catalano, Rodrigo; Garrido, Juan Manuel; Álvarez Heduan, Facundo; Sigman, Mariano; González, Pablo A. (207-02-14)
      We implemented a Choice Blindness Paradigm containing political statements in Argentina to reveal the existence of categorical ranges of introspective reports, identified by confidence and agreement levels, separating ...
    • A new test for the success of inflation targeting 

      Powell, Andrew; Cohen Sabbán, Verónica; González-Rozada, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      We propose a new test, derived from a set of variance decompositions of a structural VAR, for the success of inflation targeting. In contrast to standard sacrifice ratios this test considers changes in the structure of ...
    • A polyhedral study of a relaxation of the routing and spectrum allocation problem 

      Marenco, Javier; Bertero, Federico; Kerivin, Herve; Wagler, Annegret (Procedia Computer ScienceElsevier, 2023)
      The routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) problem arises in the context of flexible grid optical networks, and consists in routing a set of demands through a network while simultaneously assigning a bandwidth to each ...
    • A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 

      Navajas, Joaquín; Ruggeri, Kai; Haslam, S. Alexander; Capraro, Valerio; Boggio, Paulo; Ellemers, Naomi; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Douglas, Karen M.; Rand, David G.; van der Linden, Sander; Cikara, Mina; Finkel, Eli J.; Druckman, James N.; Wohl, Michael J. A.; Petty, Richard E.; Tucker, Joshua A.; Shariff, Azim; Gelfand, Michele; Packer, Dominic; Jetten, Jolanda; Van Lange, Paul A. M.; Pennycook, Gordon; Peters, Ellen; Baicker, Katherine; Crum, Alia; Weeden, Kim A.; Napper, Lucy; Tabri, Nassim; Zaki, Jamil; Skitka, Linda; Kitayama, Shinobu; Mobbs, Dean; Sunstein, Cass R.; Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah; Todsen, Anna Louise; Hajian, Ali; Verra, Sanne; Buehler, Vanessa; Friedemann, Maja; Hecht, Marlene; Mobarak, Rayyan S.; Karakasheva, Ralitsa; Tünte, Markus R.; Yeung, Siu; Kit Rosenbaum, R. Shayna; Lep, Žan; Yamada, Yuki; Hudson, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn; Macchia, Lucía; Soboleva, Irina; Dimant, Eugen; Geiger, Sandra J.; Jarke, Hannes; Wingen, Tobias; Berkessel, Jana B.; Mareva, Silvana; McGill, Lucy; Papa, Francesca; Većkalov, Bojana; Afif, Zeina; Buabang, Eike K.; Landman, Marna; Tavera, Felice; Andrews, Jack L.; Bursalıoğlu, Aslı Zupan,; Zorana Wagner, Lisa; Vranka, Marek; Kasdan, David; Chen, Patricia; Hudson, Kathleen R.; Novak, Lindsay M.; Teas, Paul; Rachev, Nikolay R.; Galizzi, Matteo M. (Nature ISSN 1476-4687 (online), 2023)
      Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence ...
    • A Value-Based Well-Being Framework 

      Pels, Jaqueline; Mele, Cristina; Russo-Spena, Tiziana; Tregua, Marco (Journal of MacromarketingSAGE, 2023)
      This article presents and illustrates a novel value-based well-being framework, derived from service-dominant logic notions of the link between value and well-being. Based in a wide range of disciplines, this framework ...
    • Aftermaths of current account crisis: export growth or import contraction? 

      Sturzenegger, Federico; Guidotti, Pablo; Villar, Agustín (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      This paper defines current account crises as current account adjustments that occur in the aftermath of a sizable reduction in capital flows. We study the characteristics of such current account adjustments, particularly ...
    • An entropic barriers diffusion theory of decision-making in multiple alternative tasks 

      Fernandez Slezak, Diego; Sigman, Mariano; Cecchi, Guillermo A. (2018-03-02)
      We present a theory of decision-making in the presence of multiple choices that departs from traditional approaches by explicitly incorporating entropic barriers in a stochastic search process. We analyze response time ...
    • An integer programming approach for the hyper-rectangular clustering problem with axis-parallel clusters and outliers 

      Marenco, Javier (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      We present a mixed integer programming formulation for the problem of clustering a set of points in Rd with axis-parallel clusters, while allowing to discard a pre-specified number of points, thus declared to be outliers. ...
    • Arithmetic on your phone : a large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications 

      Zimmerman, Federico; Shalom, Diego; González, Pablo A.; Garrido, Juan Manuel; Álvarez Heduan, Facundo; Dehaene, Stanislas; Sigman, Mariano; Rieznik, Andrés (2016-12-29)
      We present the results of a gamified mobile device arithmetic application which allowed us to collect vast amount of data in simple arithmetic operations. Our results confirm and replicate, on a large sample, six of the ...
    • Assessing the Impact of Contextual Information in Hate Speech Detection 

      Gravano, Agustín; Pérez, Juan Manuel; Luque, Franco M; Zeyat, Demián; Kondratzky, Martín; Moro, Agustín; Serrati, Pablo Santiago; Zajac, Joaquín; Miguel, Paula; Debandi, Natalia; Cotik, Viviana (2023)
      Social networks and other digital media deal with huge amounts of user-generated contents where hate speech has become a problematic more and more relevant. A great effort has been made to develop automatic tools for its ...
    • Attachment patterns trigger differential neural signature of emotional processing in adolescents 

      Escobar, María Josefina; Rivera-Rei, Álvaro; Decety, Jean; Huepe, David; Cardona, Juan Felipe; Canales-Johnson, Andrés; Sigman, Mariano; Helgiu, Elena; Mikulan, Ezequiel P.; Baez, Sandra; Manes, Facundo; Lopez, Vladimir; Ibañez, Agustín (2013-08-05)
      Background: Research suggests that individuals with different attachment patterns process social information differently, especially in terms of facial emotion recognition. However, few studies have explored social ...
    • Attention, in and out : scalp-level and Intracranial EEG correlates of interoception and exteroception 

      García-Cordero, Indira; Esteves, Sol; Mikulan, Ezequiel P.; Hesse, Eugenia; Baglivo, Fabricio H.; Silva, Walter; García, María del Carmen; Vaucheret, Esteban; Ciraolo, Carlos; García, Hernando S.; Adolfi, Federico; Pietto, Marcos; Herrera, Eduar; Legaz, Agustina; Manes, Facundo; García, Adolfo M.; Sigman, Mariano; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; Ibáñez, Agustín; Sedeño, Lucas (2017-07-19)
      Interoception, the monitoring of visceral signals, is often presumed to engage attentional mechanisms specifically devoted to inner bodily sensing. In fact, most standardized interoceptive tasks require directing attention ...
    • 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 ...
    • Automated analysis of free speech predicts psychosis onset in high-risk youths 

      Bedi, Gillinder; Carrillo, Facundo; Cecchi, Guillermo A.; Fernández Slezak, Diego; Sigman, Mariano; Mota, Natália B.; Ribeiro, Sidarta; Javitt, Daniel C.; Copelli, Mauro; Corcoran, Cheryl M. (2015-08-26)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Psychiatry lacks the objective clinical tests routinely used in other specializations. Novel computerized methods to characterize complex behaviors such as speech could be used to identify and predict ...
    • Banking on foreigners: the behaviour of International Bank Lending to Latin America, 1985-2000 

      Powell, Andrew; Martínez Peria, María Soledad; Vladkova, Ivanna (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      Rising international bank financing to developing countries has motivated a debate on the behavior of these claims. We analyze claims from seven home (lender) countries on ten host (borrower) countries in Latin America. ...
    • Bayesian validation of grammar productions for the language of thought 

      Romano, Sergio; Salles, Alejo; Amalric, Marie; Deahene, Stanislas; Sigman, Mariano; Figueira, Santiago (2018-07-10)
      Probabilistic proposals of Language of Thoughts (LoTs) can explain learning across differ- ent domains as statistical inference over a compositionally structured hypothesis space. While frameworks may differ on how a LoT ...