• 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 ...
    • Nudging cooperation in a crowd experiment 

      Niella, Tamara; Stier-Moses, Nicolás; Sigman, Mariano (2016-01-21)
      We examine the hypothesis that driven by a competition heuristic, people don't even reflect or consider whether a cooperation strategy may be better. As a paradigmatic example of this behavior we propose the zero-sum ...