Publications

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

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

Anlló, H., Katsumi, W., Sackur, J. & de Gardelle, V. (2022). Effects of false statements on visual perception hinge on social suggestibility. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 48(8), 889–900. doi:10.1037/xhp0001024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rahnev, D., Balsdon, T., Charles, L., de Gardelle, V., Denison, R., Desender, K., Faivre, N., Filevich, E., Fleming, S., Jehee, J., Lau, H., Lee, A., Locke, S., Mamassian, P., Odegaard, B., Peters, M., Reyes, G., Rouault, M., Sackur, J., Samaha, J., Sergent, C., Sherman, M., Siedlecka, M., Soto, D., Vlassova, A. & Zylberberg, A. (2022). Consensus goals for the field of visual metacognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, . doi:10.1177/17456916221075615

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

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

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

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

Guillou, L., Grandin, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust. Royal Society Open Science, 8(6). doi:10.1098/rsos.202104

Jacquet, P., Findling, C., Mell, H., Chevallier, C. & Baumard, N. (2021). Predictive modeling of religiosity, prosociality, and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 8(9). doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00691-9

Jones, B. , DeBruine, L. , .., .., Chevallier, C. & (Et Al), . (2021). To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply? Nat Hum Behav, 5, 159-169. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7611443.v1

Lettinga, N., Jacquet, P., Andre, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Environmental adversity is associated with lower investment in collective actions. PLoS ONE , 16(1), e0246591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246591

Lettinga, N., Mell, H., Algan, Y., Jacquet, P. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E29. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.21

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., 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., 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. & 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

Safra, L., Sijilmassi, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Disease, perceived infectability and threat reactivity: A COVID-19 study. Personality and Individual Difference, 180, 110945. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110945

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

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

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Vidal, M., Vandendriessche, C., Haggard, P. & Palminteri, S. (2020). Choosing and learning: outcome valence differentially affects learning from free versus forced choices. Nature Human Behaviour, .