Publications

My name in bold. In most of the articles where I appear as second author I designed and ran the analysis and wrote at least the first version of the manuscript. An asterisk marks the corresponding author. SJR quartile from SCImago 2025 in the journal's main category, taken at the year of consultation, not of publication. Google Scholar citations, August 2026, where available.

Articles in indexed journals

  1. Haye, A., & Torres-Sahli, M. (2025). Laughter as ideological symptom: Dialogical analysis of older adults' discourse. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1606683. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1606683 · SJR Q1 2025 (Psychology) · 2 citations
  2. Oyebode, O., Torres-Sahli, M., Kapinga, D., Bruno-McClung, E., Willans, R., Shah, N., Wilbard, L., Banham, L., & Stewart-Brown, S. (2023). Swahili translation and validation of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) in adolescents and adults taking part in the Girls' Education Challenge fund project in Tanzania. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 21(1), 43. doi:10.1186/s12955-023-02119-9 · SJR Q1 2025 (Public Health) · 17 citations
  3. Zúñiga, D., Torres-Sahli, M., Rigotti, A., Pedrals, N., Echeverría, G., Padilla, O., Lagos, A., McColl, P., Trucco, O., Cisternas, M., González, C., Bogado, J., Moraga, A. M., Altamirano, P., Durán, E., Mansilla, M., Berríos, C., Epstein, R., & Bitran, M. (2022). Dispositional mindfulness reduces burnout and promotes flourishing in medical students: A two-wave latent change score model. Mindfulness, 13(1), 112–122. doi:10.1007/s12671-021-01774-7 · SJR Q1 2025 (Applied Psychology) · 26 citations
  4. Zúñiga, D., Torres-Sahli, M., Nitsche, P., Echeverría, G., Pedrals, N., Grassi, B., Cisternas, M., Rigotti, A., & Bitran, M. (2021). Reduced burnout and higher mindfulness in medical students after a self-care program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Revista Médica de Chile, 149(6), 846–855. doi:10.4067/s0034-98872021000600846 · SJR Q4 2025 (Medicine) · 48 citations
  5. Santini, Z. I., Torres-Sahli, M., Hinrichsen, C., Meilstrup, C., Madsen, K. R., Rayce, S. B., Baker, M. M., Ten Have, M., Schotanus-Dijkstra, M., & Koushede, V. (2020). Measuring positive mental health and flourishing in Denmark: Validation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) and cross-cultural comparison across three countries. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18(1), 1–15. doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01546-2 · SJR Q1 2025 (Public Health) · 72 citations
  6. Koushede, V., Lasgaard, M., Hinrichsen, C., Meilstrup, C., Nielsen, L., Rayce, S. B., Torres-Sahli, M., Gudmundsdottir, D. G., Stewart-Brown, S., & Santini, Z. I. (2019). Measuring mental well-being in Denmark: Validation of the original and short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS and SWEMWBS) and cross-cultural comparison across four European settings. Psychiatry Research, 271, 502–509. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.12.003 · SJR Q1 2025 (Psychiatry and Mental Health) · 278 citations
  7. Bitran, M., Torres-Sahli, M., & Padilla, O. (2018). Validación de un cuestionario en castellano basado en el Modelo de Stanford para evaluar docentes clínicos [Validation of a Spanish-language questionnaire based on the Stanford model for evaluating clinical teachers]. Investigación en Educación Médica, 7(27), 14–24. doi:10.1016/j.riem.2017.06.003 · SJR Q4 2025 (Education)
  8. Haye, A., Herraz, P., Cáceres, E., Morales, R., Torres-Sahli, M., & Villarroel, N. (2018). Tiempo y memoria: Sobre la mediación narrativa de la subjetividad histórica [Time and memory: On the narrative mediation of historical subjectivity]. Revista de Estudios Sociales, 65, 22–35. doi:10.7440/res65.2018.03 · SJR Q2 2025 (Social Sciences) · 39 citations
  9. Echeverría, G., Torres-Sahli, M., Pedrals, N., Padilla, O., Rigotti, A., & Bitran, M. (2017). Validation of a Spanish version of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form questionnaire. Psicothema, 29(1), 96–102. doi:10.7334/psicothema2016.3 · SJR Q1 2025 (Psychology) · 100 citations
  10. Haye, A., & Torres-Sahli, M. (2017). To feel is to know relations: James' concept of stream of thought and contemporary studies on procedural knowledge. New Ideas in Psychology, 46, 1–8. doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.02.001 · SJR Q1 2025 (Psychology) · 13 citations

Preprints

  1. Torres-Sahli, M.*, Blake, J., Novoa-Echaurren, Á., & Pavez, I. (2026). Refrain, then amplify: A curriculum framework for sequencing generative AI to form professional judgement. EdArXiv.
  2. Bermejo-Martins, E., Torres-Sahli, M., Madsen, K. R., Tabs-Damgraads, M., Nielsen, L., Meilstrup, C., Toftager, M., & Santini, Z. I. (2023). Gender and socio-economic status as moderators in the associations between social support sources and adolescents' mental and behavioral health indicators. medRxiv. doi:10.1101/2023.08.31.23294835

Articles under review

  1. Torres-Sahli, M.*, & Tileagă, C. Epideictic ageism: Political rhetoric and economies of worth in parliamentary debates on older age. Journal of Aging Studies. Under peer review.
  2. Bustamante Loyola, J., Torres-Sahli, M.*, Morgues Nudman, M., Simó Teufel, S., Pérez Retamal, M., & Guedeney, A. C. Sustained social withdrawal across the first year in preterm infants: Longitudinal trajectories and neonatal follow-up. Under peer review.

In advanced preparation

  1. Torres-Sahli, M. Answerability, not meaning-making: A discipline for GenAI-assisted reflexive analysis. In preparation.
  2. Torres-Sahli, M., Cerda, F.*, & Pavez, I. Forced technology adoption among older adults: A typology of responses. In preparation.

Conference presentations

26–28 August 2026

EARIE 2026

European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany

Aldunate, F., Enrione, A., Girardi, J., Opazo, C., Torres-Sahli, M.*, & Truffa, S. Hierarchies: New Facts from Administrative HR Data, with preliminary results from the event studies. Accepted paper; authors in alphabetical order; corresponding author: M. Torres-Sahli. Presented by F. Aldunate.

2021

SSM Annual Scientific Meeting

Society for Social Medicine and Population Health

Banham, L., Bruno-McClung, E., Kapinga, D., Oyebode, O., Stewart-Brown, S., Torres-Sahli, M., Wilbard, L., & Willans, R. Translation and validation of the Swahili Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) and distribution of mental wellbeing in adolescents and adults taking part in the Girls' Education Challenge project in Tanzania (poster P66). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75, A72.

2019

International Society for Theoretical Psychology

Copenhagen, Denmark

Torres-Sahli, M., & Villarroel Guerra, N. Everyday ageism as a rhetorical habit: The negation of ageing through laughter, and pitying older persons for political purposes.

2018

AMEE 2018

Association for Medical Education in Europe, Basel, Switzerland

Bitran, M., Torres-Sahli, M., Echeverría, G., Zúñiga, D., Pedrals, N., & Rigotti, A. Dispositional mindfulness: A protective factor for burnout in medical students. Abstract Book, p. 780.

2013

International Society for Theoretical Psychology

Santiago, Chile

Torres-Sahli, M. Psychology of will: Intelligent activity on the struggles of impulses.