Publications

Alexandre, S., Arnal, L. , Vinckier, F., Domenech, P., Raphaël, G. & Wyart, V. (2022). Premature commitment to uncertain decisions during human NMDA receptor hypofunction. Nature Communications volume, 13(338). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27876-3

Dubourg, E., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e98. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001156

Baumard, N., Huillery, E. , Hyafil, A. & Safra, L. (2022). The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nature Human Behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01292-z

Boon-Falleur, M., Grandin, A. , Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01312-w

Mus, M., Bor, A. & Bang Petersen, M. (2022). Do conspiracy theories efficiently signal coalition membership? An experimental test using the “Who Said What?” design. PLoS ONE , 17(3), e0265211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265211

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

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

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

Dezecache, G., Martin, J., Tessier, C. , Safra, L., Pitron, V., Nuss, P. & Grèzes, J. (2021). Nature and determinants of social actions during a mass shooting. Plos One, . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260392

Winkler, M. , Dumont, G., Schöll, E. & Gutkin, B. (2021). Phase response approaches to neural activity models with distributed delay. Bio Cybern. doi:10.1007/s00422-021-00910-9

Cleeremans, A. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2022). Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value. Neuroscience of Consciousness., 2022(1), niac007. doi:10.1093/nc/niac007

Palminteri, S. & Maël, L. (2022). The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement-learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(7), 607-621. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.005

Balsdon, T., Mamassian, P. & Wyart, V. (2021). Neural signatures of confidence after the completion of a perceptual decision. Journal of Vision, 21(9). doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2518

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

De Jesus Dias Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2022). How to Develop Reliable Instruments to Measure the Cultural Evolution of Preferences and Feelings in History? Frontiers in Psychology, 13 . doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786229

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786770

Atkinson-Clement, C. , Maël, L., Patsalides, L. , De Liege, A. , Klein, Y. , Roze, E. , Deniau, E. , Andreas, H., Palminteri, S. & Yulia, W. (2022). Decision-making under risk and ambiguity in adults with Tourette syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291722002318

Valente, A., Ostojic, S. & Pillow, J. (2022). Probing the Relationship Between Latent Linear Dynamical Systems and Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Network Models. Neural Computation, 1-22. doi:10.1162/neco_a_01522

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2022). From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions. Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2022.2065352

Pacherie, E., Le Bars, S., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Wyart, V., Sari, I. & Chambon, V. (2022). Motor coordination and strategic cooperation in joint action. Psychological science, 33(5), 736-751. doi:10.1177/09567976211053275

Csaba Farkas, B. , Jacquet, P. & Chambon, V. (2022). Do perceived control and time orientation mediate the effect of early life adversity on reproductive behaviour and health status? Insights from the European Value Study and the European Social Survey. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(52). doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01066-y

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

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