Publications

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). Cultural technologies for peace may have shaped our social cognition. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 47, e28. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23002637

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). 'Our Roots Run Deep': Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment. The Behavioral and brain sciences, ., 1-44. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2024). Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. doi:10.1037/ebs0000355

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2024). Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions? Carving Morality at Its Functional Joints. In Laith Al-Shawaf, and Todd K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions . doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.35

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V. & Baumard, N. (2024). The psychological origins of science fiction. Poetics, 102(101862). doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101862

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). ‘Our Roots Run Deep’: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-44. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

Bouton, S., Chevallier, C., Hallimat Cissé, A., Heude, B. & Jacquet, P. (2024). Metabolic trade-offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth. Developmental science, 27(4), e13493. doi:10.1111/desc.13493

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., A Johnson, E. , T Johnson, M. & E Pickett, K. (2024). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration, . doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Mus, M., Mercier, H. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: The role of mental accounting. Plos Climate, 2(10), e0000227. doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000227

Karabegovic , M., Boyer, P. & Mercier, H. (2024). Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(3), 252-260. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.010

Karabegovic , M., Blatt, T. , Boyer, P. & Mercier, H. (2024). Intuitive credit attribution and the priority rule. Philosophical Psychology, . doi:10.1080/09515089.2023.2299754

Dockendorff, M. & Mercier, H. (2024). Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy. Thinking & Reasoning , 30(1), 195–217. doi:10.1080/13546783.2023.2259537

Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2024). The Reputational Benefits of Intellectual Humility. Rev.Phil.Psych, 15, 483–498. doi:10.1007/s13164-023-00679-9#

Vlasceanu, M., Mercier, H. & (Et Al), . (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2023). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review, 117(2), 767-772. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Mckay, R. & Mercier, H. (2023). Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(2), 125-130. doi:10.1177/09637214221128320

Morin, O. (2023). The puzzle of ideography. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46(e233). doi:10.1017/S0140525X22002801

Youngblood, M., M. Stubbersfield, J. , Glassman, R. , Morin, O. & Acerbi , A. (2023). Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(573). doi:10.1057/s41599-023-02106-x

Morin, O. & Sobchuk, O. (2024). Why Monsters Are Dangerous . Poetics Today, 44(4), 647–664. doi:10.1215/03335372-10824226

Youngblood, M., Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2023). Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging. , 5(e10). doi:10.1017/ehs.2023.5

A Johnson, E. , Hardill, I. , Johnson, M. & Nettle, D. (2023). Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production. Evidence & Policy, 20(3), 393-405. doi:10.1332/17442648Y2023D000000005

Frankenhuis, W. , Borsboom, D. , Nettle, D. & Roisman, G. (2023). Formalizing theories of child development: Introduction to the special section. Child Development, 94(6), 1425-1431. doi:10.1111/cdev.14020

A Johnson, E. , Webster, H., Morrison, J., Thorold, R. , Mathers, A., Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2023). What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health? Journal of Youth Studies, 1-20. doi:10.1080/13676261.2023.2256236

T. Ross, C. , Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS, 120(22), e2220124120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Neal, C. , Pepper, G. , Allen, C. & Nettle, D. (2023). No effect of hunger on attentional capture by food cues: Two replication studies. Appetite, 191(107065). doi:0.1016/j.appet.2023.107065

Johnson, M. , Johnson, E. , Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2024). Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(131-148). doi:10.1177/13691481221146886

Nettle, D., Panchanathan, K. & Frankenhuis, W. (2023). Biology, Society, or Choice: How Do Non-Experts Interpret Explanations of Behaviour? Open Mind, 7, 625-651. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00098

Radkani, S., Holton, E. , De Courson, B., Saxe, R. & Nettle, D. (2023). Desperation and inequality increase stealing: evidence from experimental microsocieties. Royal Society Open Science, 10(221385). doi:10.1098/rsos.221385

De Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. , Nettle, D. & van Gelder, J. (2023). Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model. , Vol. 290: In . doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2095

Aime, C., Andre, J. & Raymond, M. (2017). Grandmothering and cognitive resources are required for the emergence of menopause and extensive post-reproductive lifespan. PLoS computational biology, 13(7), e1005631. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005631