Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ueshima, A., Mercier, H. & Kameda, T. (2021). Social deliberation systematically shifts resource allocation decisions by focusing on the fate of the least well-off. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104067 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104067

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

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

Mahr, J. , Mascaro, O., Mercier, H. & Csibra, G. (2021). The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. Plos One, 16(4), e0249958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249958

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Jacquet, P., Barbalat, G., Bouton, S., Pacherie, E., Koechlin, E. & Farrer, C. (2017). Neural coding of prior expectations in hierarchical intention inference. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1278. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01414-y

Chambon, V., Farrer, C., Pacherie, E., Leboyer, M., Zalla, T. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Reduced Sensitivity to Social Priors During Action Prediction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cognition, 160, 17–26 . doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.005