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International Journal article  

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). 'Our Roots Run Deep': Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment. The Behavioral and brain sciences, ., 1-44. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

International Journal article  

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). Cultural technologies for peace may have shaped our social cognition. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 47, e28. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23002637

Book chapter  

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2023). Do Fictions Impact People's Beliefs? A Critical View. The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief (Routledge ed., pp. 18).

International Journal article  

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, . doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

International Journal article  

Boon-Falleur, M., Dormont, B. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Does higher perceived risk of morbidity and mortality decrease risk-taking? R. Soc. Open Sci., 9(220486). doi:10.1098/rsos.220486

International Journal article  

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45(E309). doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000048

International Journal article  

Grandin, A. , Guillou, L., Abdel Sater, R., Foucault, M. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 79, 101720. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101720

International Journal article  

Marno, H. , Völter, C. , Tinklenberg, B. , Sperber, D. & Call , J. (2022). Learning from communication versus observation in great apes. Scientific Reports volume, 12, 2917. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-07053-2

International Journal article  

Morin, O., Müller, T., Morisseau, T. & Winters, J. (2022). Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed-Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming App. Cognitive Science, 46(2), e13113. doi:10.1111/cogs.13113

International Journal article  

Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2022). Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1), 202-217. doi:10.1093/llc/fqab030

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Yesilaltay , S., Schwartz, M., Hacquin, A., Allard, A. , Mercier, H. & Blancke, S. (2022). Scaling up interactive argumentation by providing counterarguments with a chatbot. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(4), 579-592. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01271-w

International Journal article  

Mell, H., Safra, L., Algan, Y., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Early Life Adversity Is Associated With Diminished Social Trust in Adults. Political Psychology, . doi:10.1111/pops.12756

International Journal article  

Hyafil, A. & Baumard, N. (2022). Evoked and Transmitted Culture models: Using bayesian methods to infer the evolution of cultural traits in history. Plos one, . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264509

International Journal article  

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2022). From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions. Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2022.2065352

International Journal article  

De Jesus Dias Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2022). How to Develop Reliable Instruments to Measure the Cultural Evolution of Preferences and Feelings in History? Frontiers in Psychology, 13 . doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786229

International Journal article  

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786770

Non-reviewed conference proceeding  

Langlais, P. , Camps, J. , Baumard, N. & Morin, O. (2022). From Roland to Conan: First results on the corpus of French literary fictions (1050-1920) In Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), Tokyo, Japan.

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Boon-Falleur, M., Bouguen, A. , Charpentier, A. , Algan, Y., Huillery, E. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks to measure socio-emotional skills in students. Scientifice Reports, 12(442). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-04046-5

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Mus, M., Bor, A. & Bang Petersen, M. (2022). Do conspiracy theories efficiently signal coalition membership? An experimental test using the “Who Said What?” design. PLoS ONE , 17(3), e0265211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265211

International Journal article  

Boon-Falleur, M., Grandin, A. , Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01312-w

International Journal article  

Baumard, N., Huillery, E. , Hyafil, A. & Safra, L. (2022). The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nature Human Behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01292-z

Book chapter  

Chevallier, C. (2021). Vivre dans un environnement risqué : quels impacts pour la psychologie ? In Claudia Senik (Eds.), Sociétés en danger (Odile Jacob ed., pp. 197 à 208). Paris: La Découverte. doi:10.3917/dec.senik.2021.01.0197

International Journal article  

Vesper, C., Morisseau, T. , Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D. (2021). When is ostensive communication used for joint action? Cognitive Semiotics, 14(2), 101-129. doi:10.1515/cogsem-2021-2040

International Journal article  

Morin, O. & Sobchuk, O. (2021). The shortlist effect: Nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3(E51). doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.48