Publications

Mercier, H. (2020 ). Not Born Yesterday. Princeton University Press

Ecoffet, P., Andre, J. & Bredeche, N. (2020). Learning to Cooperate in a Socially Optimal Way in Swarm Robotics. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 251-259. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00315

Martins, M. , Fischmeister, F. , Gingras, B. & (Et Al), . (2020). Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and detection of melodic hierarchies. Brain Structure and Function , 225, 1997–2015. doi:10.1007/s00429-020-02105-7

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

Miton, H., Sperber, D. & Hernik, M. (2020). A forward bias in human profile-oriented portraits . Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12866. doi:10.1111/cogs.12866

Kourtis, D., Jacob, P., Sebanz, N. , Sperber, D. & Knoblich, G. (2020). Making sense of human interaction benefits from communicative cues. Scientific Reports, 10(18135). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75283-3

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

Miton, H., Vesper, C., Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D. (2020). Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm. Proceedings of the royal society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2001

Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2020). Reverse engineering cash: Coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically. Cognition, 198, 104182. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104182

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., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

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

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080

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

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

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

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

Jacob, P. (2020). Jules Vuillemin et la triple controverse entre Carnap et Quine. Revue de Synthèse, 141(1-2), 57-83. doi:10.1163/19552343-14000024

Jacob, P. & Scott-Phillips, T. (2020). Is mindreading a gadget? Synthese , . doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02620-4

Jacob, P. (2020). What Do False-Belief Tests Show? Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(1), 1–20 . doi:10.1007/s13164-019-00442-z

Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2020). The rise of prosociality in fiction preceded democratic revolutions in Early Modern Europe. PNAS, 117(46), 28684-28691. doi:10.1073/pnas.2009571117

Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Cultural evolution by capital accumulation. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e18. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.19

Andre, J. & Rousset, F. (2020). Does extrinsic mortality accelerate the pace of life? A bare-bones approach. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(6), 486-492. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.002

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

Mell, H., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Time is money. Waiting costs explain why selection favors steeper time discounting in deprived environments. Evolution and Human Behavior , 42(4), 379-387. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.02.003

Safra, L., Baumard, N., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2020). Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0230011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230011

Safra, L., Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in painting. Nature Communications, 11, 4728. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18566-7

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Rationalizations Primarily Serve Reputation Management, Not Decision Making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e29. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002115

Mercier, H. (2019 in press). A paradox of information aggregation: We do it well but think about it poorly, and why this is a problem for institutions. In Ballantyne, N. & Dunning, D. (Eds.), Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and PsychologyOxford University Press