Joaquin Navajas
I am an Assistant Professor at the Business School at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella where I direct a research center called the "Neuroscience Lab". I am also a tenured researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina. With a background in Physics (University of Buenos Aires) and a PhD in Neuroscience (University of Leicester), I have worked in several lines of research related to cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, and human behavioral sciences. Lately, I have been focused on understanding how people make judgements and decisions in social settings, how they change their minds following social influence, and how these processes relate to political polarization. To study these topics, I perform and analyze experiments conducted in large-scale public engagement events, online platforms, and in the lab.
New! Open postdoctoral position to join my group at UTDT in a project in collaboration with Amit Goldenberg at Harvard University.
You can email me at joaquin.navajas@utdt.edu
Selected publications
• Zimmerman, F., Garbulsky, G., Ariely, D., Sigman, M., & Navajas, J. (2022). Political coherence and certainty as drivers of interpersonal liking, over and above similarity. Science Advances, 8(6), 1-14.
• Navajas, J., Armand, O., Moran, R., Bahrami, B., Deroy, O. (2022). Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds. Royal Society Open Science, 9: 191497
• Navajas, J., Alvarez Heduan, F., Garrido, J.M., Gonzalez, P.A., Garbulsky G., Ariely, D., & Sigman, M. (2019). Reaching consensus in polarized moral debates. Current Biology. 29(23): 4124-4129.e6
• Navajas, J., Niella, T., Garbulsky, G., Bahrami, B., & Sigman, M. (2018). Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (2):126-132.
• Navajas, J. Hindocha, C., Foda, H., Keramati, M., Latham, P.E., Bahrami, B (2017). The idiosyncratic nature of confidence, Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11): 810-818.