Publications

Yesilaltay , S., De Araujo, E. & Mercier, H. (2022). “If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news. Digital Journalism, 10(3), 373-394. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2022). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Claidière, N., Trouche, E. & Mercier, H. (2017). Argumentation and the diffusion of counter-intuitive beliefs. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 146(7), 1052-1066. doi:10.1037/xge0000323

Mercier, H., Hacquin, A. & Claidière, N. (2021). Being Easy to Communicate Might Make Verdicts Based on Confessions More Legitimate. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(3-4), 203-225. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340104

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Rahnev, D., Balsdon, T., Charles, L., de Gardelle, V., Denison, R., Desender, K., Faivre, N., Filevich, E., Fleming, S., Jehee, J., Lau, H., Lee, A., Locke, S., Mamassian, P., Odegaard, B., Peters, M., Reyes, G., Rouault, M., Sackur, J., Samaha, J., Sergent, C., Sherman, M., Siedlecka, M., Soto, D., Vlassova, A. & Zylberberg, A. (2022). Consensus goals for the field of visual metacognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, . doi:10.1177/17456916221075615

Chevallier, C., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(5), 331–333. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.02.002

Strickland, B. & Chemla, E. (2018). Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. PloS one, 13(1), e0184132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184132

Hacquin, A., Yesilaltay , S., Aaroe, L. & Mercier, H. (2022). Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 80(101749). doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101749

Mercier, H. (2020). Divination as polling: Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, .

Mercier, H. & Claidière, N. (2022). Does discussion make crowds any wiser? Cognition, 22, 104912. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104912

De Araujo, E. , Yesilaltay , S., Bor, A. & Mercier, H. (2021). Dominant Jerks: People Infer Dominance From the Utterance of Challenging and Offensive Statements. Social Psychological Bulletin, 16(4), e6999. doi:10.32872/spb.6999

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Framing messages for vaccination supporters. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 26(4). doi:10.1037/xap0000271

Chemla, E. & Egré, P. (2021). From many-valued consequence to many-valued connectives. Synthese, 198, 5315-5352. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02344-0

Udden, J. , Martins, M. , Zuidema, W. & Tecumseh Fitch, W. (2019). Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation. Topics in Cognitive Science . doi:10.1111/tops.12442

Mercier, H. (2021). How Good Are We At Evaluating Communicated Information? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 89, 257-272. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000096

Charafeddine, R., Zambrana , I., Triniol, B. , Mercier, H., Clément, F. , Kaufmann, L. , Reboul, A. , Pons, F. & Van Der Henst, J. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83, 453-473. doi:10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x

Bernard, A., Bredeche, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Indirect genetic effects allow escape from the inefficient equilibrium in a coordination game. Evolution Letters, 4(3), 257-265. doi:10.1002/evl3.155

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2021). Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000400

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2021). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3), 445-463. doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2020). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3). doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

Yesilaltay , S., Claidière, N. & Mercier, H. (2020). It Happened to a Friend of a Friend: Inaccurate Source Reporting In Rumor Diffusion. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E49. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.53

Yesilaltay , S., Majima, Y. & Mercier, H. (2020 ). It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(3), 235-243. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.004

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2021). L'Énigme de la raison.

Mercier, H. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

Martins, M. , Bianco, R. , Sammler, D. & Villringer, A. (2019). Recursion in action: An fMRI study on the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences. Human Brain Mapping , 40(4). doi:10.1002/hbm.24549

Martins, M. , Krause, C. , Neville, D. , Pino, D. , Villringer, A. & Obrig, H. (2019). Recursive hierarchical embedding in vision is impaired by posterior middle temporal gyrus lesions. Brain , 142(10), 3217-3229. doi:10.1093/brain/awz242

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Relevance Is Socially Rewarded, But Not at the Price of Accuracy. Evolutionary Psychology, 18(1), 1–7. doi:10.1177/1474704920912640

Acerbi , A., Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2022). Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 3(1), 1-15. doi:10.37016/mr-2020-87