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International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2021). Why Imaginary Worlds?: The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-52. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000923

International Journal article  

Boon-Falleur, M., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2021). Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors. Evolution and Human Behavior, . doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.04.001

International Journal article  

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 11(2), 197-206. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2021.1881607

National journal article  

Dubourg, E., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). L’origine des fictions : l’hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales. Fabula-LhT, 25

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Geoffroy, F. & Andre, J. (2021). The emergence of cooperation by evolutionary generalization. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1951), 20210338. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0338

Reviewed conference proceeding  

Ecoffet, P., Fontbonne, N., Andre, J. & Bredeche, N. (2021). Reinforcement Learning with Rare Significant Events: Direct Policy Search vs. Gradient Policy Search. In GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, New YorkNYUnited States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3449726

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

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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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45(E309). doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000048

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Marno, H. , Völter, C. , Tinklenberg, B. , Sperber, D. & Call , J. (2022). Learning from communication versus observation in great apes. Scientific Reports volume, 12, 2917. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-07053-2

International Journal article  

Morin, O., Müller, T., Morisseau, T. & Winters, J. (2022). Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed-Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming App. Cognitive Science, 46(2), e13113. doi:10.1111/cogs.13113

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Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2022). Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1), 202-217. doi:10.1093/llc/fqab030

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

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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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

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

International Journal article  

Hyafil, A. & Baumard, N. (2022). Evoked and Transmitted Culture models: Using bayesian methods to infer the evolution of cultural traits in history. Plos one, . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264509

International Journal article  

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