Publications

Martins, M. , Krause, C. , Neville, D. , Pino, D. , Villringer, A. & Obrig, H. (2019). Recursive hierarchical embedding in vision is impaired by posterior middle temporal gyrus lesions. Brain , 142(10), 3217-3229. doi:10.1093/brain/awz242

Trouche, E., Shao, J. & Mercier, H. (2019). Objective evaluation of demonstrative arguments. Argumentation, 33, 23–43. doi:10.1007/s10503-018-9472-z

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2019). Précis of The Enigma of Reason, and reply to commentaries. Theorema, 38(1)

Mercier, H. & Miton, H. (2019). Utilizing simple cues to informational dependency. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 301-314. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.001

Charafeddine, R., Mercier, H., Yamada, T., Matsui, T., Sudo, M., Germain, P., Bernard, S., Castelain, T. & Van Der Henst, J. (2019). Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children . Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19(3-4), 256–272. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340058

Chevallier, C. (2019). Theory of mind and autism: Revisiting Baron-Cohen et al.’s Sally-Anne study. In A. Slater and P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies 2nd edition (pp. 148-163).Sage

Safra, L., Chevallier, C. & Palminteri, S. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007224

Safra, L., Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2019). Social information impairs reward learning in depressive subjects: behavioral and computational characterization. Plos Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1101/378281

Geoffroy, F., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2019). Why cooperation is not running away. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(2). doi:10.1111/jeb.13508

Baumard, N. (2019). Psychological Origins of the Industrial Revolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42(e189), 1–63. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1800211X

Mercier, H. (2019). Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, In press

Jacquet, P., Safra, L., Wyart, V., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2019). The ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversity. Royal Society Open Science, 6(1), 180454. doi:10.1098/rsos.180454

Mercier, H. (2019 in press). A paradox of information aggregation: We do it well but think about it poorly, and why this is a problem for institutions. In Ballantyne, N. & Dunning, D. (Eds.), Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and PsychologyOxford University Press

Ecoffet, P., Andre, J. & Bredeche, N. (2020). Learning to Cooperate in a Socially Optimal Way in Swarm Robotics. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 251-259. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00315

Martins, M. , Fischmeister, F. , Gingras, B. & (Et Al), . (2020). Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and detection of melodic hierarchies. Brain Structure and Function , 225, 1997–2015. doi:10.1007/s00429-020-02105-7

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

Miton, H., Sperber, D. & Hernik, M. (2020). A forward bias in human profile-oriented portraits . Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12866. doi:10.1111/cogs.12866

Kourtis, D., Jacob, P., Sebanz, N. , Sperber, D. & Knoblich, G. (2020). Making sense of human interaction benefits from communicative cues. Scientific Reports, 10(18135). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75283-3

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Miton, H., Vesper, C., Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D. (2020). Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm. Proceedings of the royal society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2001

Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2020). Reverse engineering cash: Coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically. Cognition, 198, 104182. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104182

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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