Publications

Klopfenstein, A. & Mercier, H. (2026). Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 33(1), 35. doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02789-0

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2025). The "Double Ring Illusion": The physical constraint of solidity shapes visual processing. Journal of experimental psychology. General, . doi:10.1037/xge0001839

Bai, D., Hafri, A. , Izard, V., Firestone, C. & Strickland, B. (2025). "Core Perception": Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 1-75. doi:10.1017/S0140525X25102756

Boger, T. & Strickland, B. (2025). Object persistence explains event completion. Cognition, 259(106110). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106110

De Dampierre, C. & Mercier, H. (2025). The structure and evolution of scholarly interests from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-025-05340-z

M Hayes, W., Yax, N. & Palminteri, S. (2025). Relative Value Encoding in Large Language Models: A Multi-Task, Multi-Model Investigation. Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 15(10), 989-1001. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00209

Palminteri, S. (2025). Human reinforcement learning processes and biases: computational characterization and possible applications to behavioral public policy. Mind Soc. doi:10.1007/s11299-025-00329-w

Tomova, L., Towner, E., Thomas, K., Zhang , L., Palminteri, S. & Blakemore, S. (2025). Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents. Communications psychology, 3(1), 135. doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00306-6

Turner, G., M Ferguson, A., Katiyar, T., Palminteri, S. & Orben, A. (2025). Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media. Biological psychiatry, 97(10), 989-1001. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.12.012

Vrizzi, S., Najar, A., Lemogne, C. , Palminteri, S. & Lebreton, M. (2025). Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics. Nature Mental Health, 3, 654–666. doi:10.1038/s44220-025-00427-1

Anlló, H., Bavard, S., Benmarrakchi, F., Bonagura, D., Cerrotti, F., Cicue, M., Gueguen, M., José Guzmán, E., Kadieva, D., Kobayashi, M., Lukumon, G., Sartorio, M., Yang, J., Zinchenko, O., Bahrami, B., Silva Concha, J., Hertz, U., B Konova, A., Li, J., O'Madagain, C., Navajas, J., Reyes, G., Sarabi-Jamab, A., Shestakova, A. , Sukumaran, B., Watanabe, K. & Palminteri, S. (2024). Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries. Nature human behaviour, 8(8), 1554-1567. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01894-9

C M Gueguen, M., Anlló, H., Bonagura, D., Kong, J., Hafezi, S., Palminteri, S. & B Konova, A. (2024). Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction. Biological psychiatry, 95(10), 974-984. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.005

Dockendorff, M. & Mercier, H. (2024). Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy. Thinking & Reasoning , 30(1), 195–217. doi:10.1080/13546783.2023.2259537

Hosein Hadian Rasanan, A., J Evans, N., Fontanesi , L., Manning, C., Huang-Pollock, C., Matzke, D., Heathcote, A., Rieskamp, J., Speekenbrink, M., J Frank, M., Palminteri, S., G Lucas, C., R Busemeyer, J., Ratcliff, R. & Amani Rad, J. (2024). Beyond discrete-choice options. Trends in cognitive sciences, 28(9), 857-870. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.004

Karabegovic , M., Boyer, P. & Mercier, H. (2024). Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(3), 252-260. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.010

Karabegovic , M., Blatt, T. , Boyer, P. & Mercier, H. (2024). Intuitive credit attribution and the priority rule. Philosophical Psychology, . doi:10.1080/09515089.2023.2299754

Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2024). The Reputational Benefits of Intellectual Humility. Rev.Phil.Psych, 15, 483–498. doi:10.1007/s13164-023-00679-9#

Lussange, J., Vrizzi, S., Palminteri, S. & Gutkin, B. (2024). Mesoscale effects of trader learning behaviors in financial markets: A multi-agent reinforcement learning study. PloS one, 19(4), e0301141. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0301141

Murez, M. & Strickland, B. (2024). Event completion: a test case for theories of reference in memory. Synthese, 204(78). doi:10.1007/s11229-024-04722-9

Vlasceanu, M., Mercier, H. & (Et Al) (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

Wagner, L., Geraci, C., Kuhn, J., Davidson, K. & Strickland, B. (2024). Non-signing children's assessment of telicity in sign language. Cognition, 105811. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105811

Yax, N. , Anlló, H. & Palminteri, S. (2024). Studying and improving reasoning in humans and machines. Communications Psychology volume, 2(51). doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00091-8

Altay, S., Majima, Y. & Mercier, H. (2023). Happy thoughts: The role of communion in accepting and sharing (mis)beliefs. The British journal of social psychology, . doi:10.1111/bjso.12650

Andrade, K., Guieysse, T., Medani, T., Koechlin, E., Pantazis, D. & Dubois, B. (2023). The dual-path hypothesis for the emergence of anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in neurology, 14. doi:10.3389/fneur.2023.1239057

Anlló, H., Bavard, S., Benmarrakchi, F., Bonagura, D., Cerrotti, F., Cicue, M., Gueguen, M., Guzmán, E., Kadieva, D., Kobayashi, M., Lukumon, G., Sartorio, M., Yang, J., Zinchenko, O., Bahrami, B., Silva, J., Hertz, U., Konova, A., Li, J., O'Madagain, C., Navajas, J., Reyes, G., Sarabi-Jamab, A., Shestakova, A. , Sukumaran, B., Watanabe, K. & Palminteri, S. (2023). Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcement- and description-based economic preferences worldwide. Research square, . doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2621222/v1

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). Object solidity disambiguates ambiguous motion. Journal of Vision, 23, 5329. doi:0.1167/jov.23.9.5329

Bavard, S. & Palminteri, S. (2023). The functional form of value normalization in human reinforcement learning. eLife, 12, e83891. doi:10.7554/eLife.83891

C M Gueguen, M., Anlló, H., Bonagura, D., Kong, J., Hafezi, S., Palminteri, S. & B Konova, A. (2023). Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction. Biological psychiatry, . doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.005

Collomb-Clerc, A., C M Gueguen, M., Minotti, L., Kahane, P., Navarro , V., Bartolomei, F., Carron, R., Régis, J., Chabardès, S., Palminteri, S. & Bastin, J. (2023). Human thalamic low-frequency oscillations correlate with expected value and outcomes during reinforcement learning. Nature communications, 14(1), 6534. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42380-6