Publications

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

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

V Kuchibhotla, K. , Hindmarsh Sten, T., C. Papadoyannis, E. , Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Chillale, R. , Boubenec, Y., C. Holland, P. , Ostojic, S. & C. Froemke, R. (2020). Author Correction: Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nat Commun, 11(3176). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17023-9

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

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

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

V Kuchibhotla, K. , Hindmarsh Sten, T., C. Papadoyannis, E. , Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Chillale, R. , Boubenec, Y., C. Holland, P. , Ostojic, S. & C. Froemke, R. (2019). Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nature Communications, 10, 2151. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10089-0

Kuchibhotla, K., Hindmarsh Sten, T., Papadoyannis, E., Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Kumar, R., Boubenec, Y., Holland, P., Ostojic, S. & Froemke, R. (2020). Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nature communications, 10(1), 2151. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10089-0

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

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

K Chillale, R., Shamma, S., Ostojic, S. & Boubenec, Y. (2023). Dynamics and maintenance of categorical responses in primary auditory cortex during task engagement. eLife, 12(e85706). doi:10.7554/eLife.85706

O'Madagain, C. (2019). Epistemic Injustice at the Conceptual Level: Are We Entitled to Our Own Concepts? Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12, 64-80

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

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

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

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

Bimbard, C., Ledoux, E. & Ostojic, S. (2016). Instability to a heterogeneous oscillatory state in randomly connected recurrent networks with delayed interactions. Physical review. E, 94(6-1), 062207. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062207

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., 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., 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

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

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

Maravall, M., Ostojic, S., Pressnitzer, D. & Chait, M. (2018). More than the Sum of its Parts: Perception and Neuronal Underpinnings of Sequence Processing. Neuroscience, in press. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.07.043

Mercier, H. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

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

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

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

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