Rubicona.Decision Science Consulting

Research

The peer-reviewed foundations of the practice.

Our advice is built on methods that withstand scientific review. A selection of the founders' published work follows — the science behind what we sell.

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Decision, value & the brain

Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde — selected
PNAS
Contrasting temporal-difference and opportunity-cost reinforcement learning in an empirical money-emergence paradigm
Lefebvre, Nioche, Bourgeois-Gironde & Palminteri · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
 Nature Communications
Short-term reward experience biases inference despite dissociable neural correlates
Fischer, Bourgeois-Gironde & Ullsperger · Nature Communications, 2017
Cognition
The influence of prior reputation and reciprocity on dynamic trust-building in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder
Maurer, Chambon, Bourgeois-Gironde, Leboyer & Zalla · Cognition, 2018
Cognition
Mens rea ascription, expertise and outcome effects: professional judges surveyed
Kneer & Bourgeois-Gironde · Cognition, 2017
Books
The Mind under the Axioms: Decision-Theory Beyond Revealed Preferences · La Neuroéconomie · Comment l'argent vient à l'esprit
Academic Press · Plon · Vrin
02

Measurement, networks & uncertainty

Umer Gurchani — selected
npj Ocean Sustainability · Nature
Six key policy recommendations for marine conservation that matches the ocean's dynamism
Gurchani et al., 2025
British Journal of Psychology
Social and temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of 3,306 responses
Gurchani et al., 2024
Social Media + Society
Right-wing Twitter users in France exhibit growing homophily compared with left and center users
Gurchani et al., 2024
PLOS ONE
Development and validation of a quantitative instrument for measuring temporal and social disorientation
Gurchani et al., 2022
Scientific Reports · Nature
A slow passage of time as an indicator of social and temporal disorientation during the pandemic
Gurchani et al., 2022
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Lost in pandemic time: a phenomenological analysis of temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 crisis
Gurchani et al., 2023

Full publication lists are available on request and via the founders' institutional and Google Scholar profiles.

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