Publications

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

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

Mennella, R., Vilarem, E. & Grèzes, J. (2020). Rapid approach-avoidance responses to emotional displays reflect value-based decisions: Neural evidence from an EEG study. NeuroImage, 222, 117253. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117253

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

Beaurenaut, M., Tokarski , E., Dezecache, G. & Grèzes, J. (2020). The ‘Threat of Scream’ paradigm: a tool for studying sustained physiological and subjective anxiety. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-68889-0

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

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

Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Buodo, G., Mennella, R., Bò, E. & Daniela, P. (2019). Appetitive and aversive motivation in depression: The temporal dynamics of task-elicited asymmetries in alpha oscillations. Scientific Reports, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53639-8

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

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

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

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

Patron, E., Mennella, R., Messerotti Benvenuti, S. & Thayer, J. (2019). The frontal cortex is a heart-brake: Reduction in delta oscillations is associated with heart rate deceleration. NeuroImage, 188, 403-410. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.035

Kovarski, K., Mennella, R., Wong, S., Dunkley, B., Taylor, M. & Batty, M. (2019). Enhanced Early Visual Responses During Implicit Emotional Faces Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 49(3), 871-886. doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3787-3

Vilarem, E., Armony, J. & Grèzes, J. (2019). Action opportunities modulate attention allocation under social threat. Emotion. doi:10.1037/emo0000598

Metzler, H. & Grèzes, J. (2019). Repeatedly adopting power postures does not affect hormonal correlates of dominance and affiliative behavior. PeerJ Preprints, 6, e27389v1. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.27389v1

Chadwick, M., Metzler, H., Tijus, C., Armony, J. & Grèzes, J. (2018). Stimulus and observer characteristics jointly determine the relevance of threatening facial expressions and their interaction with attention. , 1-14. doi:10.1007/s11031-018-9730-2

Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2018). Can We Infer Inter-Individual Differences in Risk-Taking From Behavioral Tasks? Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2307. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02307

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

Patron, E., Mennella, R., Messerotti Benvenuti, S. & Thayer, J. (2018). The frontal cortex is a heart-brake: Reduction in delta oscillations is associated with heart rate deceleration. NeuroImage, 188, 403-410. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.035

Kovarski, K., Mennella, R., Wong, S., Dunkley, B., Taylor, M. & Batty, M. (2018). Enhanced Early Visual Responses During Implicit Emotional Faces Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(3), 871-886. doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3787-3

Jacquet, P., Wyart, V., Desantis, A., Hsu , Y. , Granjon, L. , Sergent, C. & Waszak, F. (2018). Human susceptibility to social influence and its neural correlates are related to perceived vulnerability to extrinsic morbidity risks. Scientific Reports, 8, 13347. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31619-8

El Zein, M., Wyart, V. & Grèzes, J. (2018). Pervasive influence of idiosyncratic associative biases during facial emotion recognition. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 8804. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27102-z

Collins, T. & Jacquet, P. (2018). TMS over posterior parietal cortex disrupts trans-saccadic visual stability. Brain stimulation, 11(2), 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.019