Publications

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

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

Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2021). Graphic complexity in writing systems. Cognition, 214 , 104771. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104771

Mestre, T., Van Duijn, E., Davis, A., Bachoud-Levi, A., Busse, M., Anderson, K., Ferreira, J., Mahlknecht, P., Tumas, V., Sampaio, C., Goetz, C., Cubo, E., Stebbins, G., Martinez-Martin, P. & Members Of The Mds Committee On Rating Scales, D. (2017). Response to letter by Saenz-Farret et al. on "Rating scales for behavioral symptoms in Huntington's disease: Critique and recommendations". Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 32(3), 482. doi:10.1002/mds.26954

Mestre, T., Bachoud-Levi, A., Marinus, J., Stout, J., Paulsen, J., Como, P., Duff, K., Sampaio, C., Goetz, C., Cubo, E., Stebbins, G., Martinez-Martin, P. & Members Of The Mds Committee On Rating Scales, D. (2018). Rating scales for Cognition in Huntington's disease: Critique and recommendations. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 33(3), 187-195. doi:10.1002/mds.27227

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

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

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

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2019). Précis of The Enigma of Reason, and reply to commentaries. Theorema, 38(1)

Mercier, H. & Miton, H. (2019). Utilizing simple cues to informational dependency. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 301-314. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.001

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

Mercier, H. (2019). Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, In press

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

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

Mell, H., Safra, L., Algan, Y., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2018). Childhood environmental harshness predicts coordinated health and reproductive strategies: A cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample from France. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39

Mell, H., Safra, L., Baumard, N. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Climate is not a good candidate to account for variations in aggression and violence across space and time. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e91. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001060

Mell, H., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2017). Both collection risk and waiting costs give rise to the behavioral constellation of deprivation. Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e333. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17001030

Matthys, A., Seddik, L. , Djellaoui, A. , Faugeras, F., Abdelhedi, J. , Petit, A. , Boyer, J. , Montillot, J., Hosseini, H. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2020). Forme inflammatoire d’angiopathie amyloïde : à propos d’un cas. Revue Neurologique, 176, S71-S72

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

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

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

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

Mangin, J., Rivière, D., Duchesnay, E., Cointepas, Y., Gaura, V., Verny, C., Damier, P., Krystkowiak, P., Bachoud-Levi, A., Hantraye, P., Remy, P. & Douaud, G. (2020). Neocortical morphometry in Huntington's disease: Indication of the coexistence of abnormal neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative processes. Neuroimage-Clinical, 26, 102211. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102211

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