Publications

Schlenker, P., Coye, C. , Leroux, M. & Chemla, E. (2023). The ABC-D of animal linguistics: are syntax and compositionality for real? Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 98(4), 1142-1159. doi:10.1111/brv.12944

Schlenker, P., Coye, C. , Steinert{-}threlkeld, S., Klinedinst, N. & Chemla, E. (2022). Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13220 . doi:10.1111/cogs.13220

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

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

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

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

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., 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

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

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

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

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

Cauté, M., Chemla, E. & Schlenker, P. (2024). Inconsistent effects of components as evidence for non-compositionality in chimpanzee face-gesture combinations? A response to Oña et al (2019) PeerJ, 12, e16800 . doi:10.7717/peerj.16800

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, .

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

Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2010 ). Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures. In Aloni, Maria and Bastiaanse, Harald and de Jager, Tikitu and Schulz, Katrin (Eds.), In Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 53–62. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_6

Chemla, E. & Schlenker, P. (2012). Incremental Vs. Symmetric Accounts of Presupposition Projection: An Experimental Approach. Natural Language Semantics, 20(2), 177–226 . doi:10.1007/s11050-012-9080-7

Chemla, E., Egré, P. & Schlenker, P. (2015). Predicting Moral Judgments From Causal Judgments . Philosophical Psychology, 28(1), 21–48. doi:10.1080/09515089.2013.863145

Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2011). Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures. Journal of Semantics, 28(3), 359-400. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq023

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

Dieuleveut, A., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019 ). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 150-171. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008

Giavazzi, M., Daland, R., Palminteri, S., Peperkamp, S., Brugières, P., Jacquemot, C., Schramm, C., Cleret de Langavant, L. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2018 ). The role of the striatum in linguistic selection: Evidence from Huntington’s disease and computational modeling. Cortex, 109, 189-204. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.031

Linzen, T., Dupoux, E. & Spector, B. (2016). Quantificational features in distributional word representations. In Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 1 – 1-11. doi:10.18653/v1/S16-2001

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

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009

Maldonado, M., Spector, B. & Chemla, E. (2017). Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000516

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2017). Priming plural ambiguities. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, 89-101. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.02.002