Publications

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

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

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

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

Udden, J. , Martins, M. , Zuidema, W. & Tecumseh Fitch, W. (2019). Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation. Topics in Cognitive Science . doi:10.1111/tops.12442

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

Strickland, B. & De Cruz , H. (2021). Replicability in Cognitive Science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 1-7. doi:10.1007/s13164-021-00531-y

Strickland, B. & Chemla, E. (2018). Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. PloS one, 13(1), e0184132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184132

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

Sperber, D. & Mercier, H. (2017). The Enigma of Reason .

Soussignan, R., Chadwick, M., Philip, L., Conty, L., Dezecache, G. & Grèzes, J. (2013). Self-relevance appraisal of gaze direction and dynamic facial expressions: Effects on facial electromyographic and autonomic reactions. Emotion, 13(2), 330-337. doi:10.1037/a0029892

Safra, L., Baumard, N., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2020). Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0230011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230011

Safra, L., Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in painting. Nature Communications, 11, 4728. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18566-7

Safra, L., Algan, Y., Tecu, T., Grèzes, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2017). Childhood harshness predicts long-lasting leader preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 645-651. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.05.001

Rahnev, D., Desender, K., Lee, A., Adler, W., Aguilar-Lleyda, D., Akdoğan, B., Arbuzova, P., Atlas, L., Balcı, F., Bang, J., Bègue, I., Birney, D., Brady, T., Calder-Travis, J., Chetverikov, A., Clark, T., Davranche, K., Denison, R., Dildine, T., Double, K., Duyan, Y., Faivre, N., Fallow, K., Filevich, E., Gajdos, T., Gallagher, R., de Gardelle, V., Gherman, S., Haddara, N., Hainguerlot, M., Hsu, T., Hu, X., Iturrate, I., Jaquiery, M., Kantner, J., Koculak, M., Konishi, M., Koß, C., Kvam, P., Kwok, S., Lebreton, M., Lempert, K., Ming Lo, C., Luo, L., Maniscalco, B., Martin, A., Massoni, S., Matthews, J., Mazancieux, A., Merfeld, D., O'Hora, D., Palser, E., Paulewicz, B., Pereira, M., Peters, C., Philiastides, M., Pfuhl, G., Prieto, F., Rausch, M., Recht, S. , Reyes, G., Rouault, M., Sackur, J., Sadeghi, S., Samaha, J., Seow, T., Shekhar, M., Sherman, M., Siedlecka, M., Skóra, Z., Song, C., Soto, D., Sun, S., Van Boxtel, J., Wang, S., Weidemann, C., Weindel, G., Wierzchoń, M., Xu, X., Ye, Q., Yeon, J., Zou, F. & Zylberberg, A. (2020). The Confidence Database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 317–325. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0813-1

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

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

Murez, M., Smortchkova, J. & Strickland, B. (2020). The mental files theory of singular thought: A psychological perspective. In R. Goodman, J. Genone and N. Kroll (Eds.), Singular Thought and Mental FilesOxford University Press

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

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

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

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

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080

Mercier, H. (2020). Divination as polling: Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, .

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

Mell, H., Safra, L., Baumard, N. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Climate is not a good candidate to account for variations in aggression and violence across space and time. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e91. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001060