Publications

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

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

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

Mercier, H. (2021). How Good Are We At Evaluating Communicated Information? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 89, 257-272. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000096

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

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

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

Kuhn, J. (2021). The dynamics of negative concord. Linguist and Philos. doi:10.1007/s10988-020-09318-3

Kuhn, J. (2021). Discourse anaphora – theoretical and experimental perspectives. In Quer, Pfau, and Herrmann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research (pp. 458-479).Routledge

Kuhn, J. (2020). Gather/numerous as a mass/count opposition. Natural Language Semantics, 28, 225–253. doi:10.1007/s11050-020-09163-x

Kuhn, J. (2020). Logical meaning in space: Iconic biases on quantification in sign languages. Language, 96(4), e320-e343. doi:10.1353/lan.2020.0082

Berthet, M., Benjumea, J., Millet, J., Cäsar, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Dunbar, E. (2020). Can emotional communication be semantically rich? The case of titi monkeys. In “An integrative approach to the study of language evolution: Re-drawing the boundaries of language”. Workshop at the Evolang XIII, Brussels, Belgium.

Berthet, M. & Zuberbühler, K. (2019). Alarm Calling. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1235-1

Souza-Alves, J. , Mourthé, Í. , Hilário, R. , Bicca-Marques, J. , Regh, J. , Gestich, C. , Acero Murcia, A. , Adret, P. , Aquino, R. , Berthet, M. & (Et Al), . (2019). Terrestrial Behavior in Titi Monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus): Potential Correlates, Patterns, and Differences between Genera. International Journal of Primatology, 40(4-5), 553-572. doi:10.1007/s10764-019-00105-x

Berthet, M., Mesbahi, G. , Pajot, A. , Cäsar, C., Neumann, C. & Zuberbühler, K. (2019). Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning. Science Advances, 5(5), eaav3991. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav3991

Commier, S. & Berthet, M. (2019). Commentary: Titi Semantics: Context and Meaning in Titi Monkey Call Sequences . Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 512. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00512

Anvari, A., Maldonado, M. & Soria Ruiz, A. (2019). The Puzzle of Reflexive Belief Construction in Spanish. In Espinal, M. T.; Castroviejo, E.; Leonetti, M.; McNally, L.; and Real-Puigdollers, C. (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 23rd Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, 57–74.

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

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

Wilcox, E. & Spector, B. (2019). The Role of Prior Beliefs in The Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a Case Study. In CogSci, 3099-3105.

Schlenker, P. & Lamberton, J. (2019). Iconic Plurality. Linguistics and Philosophy, 42(1), 45–108. doi:10.1007/s10988-018-9236-0

Schlenker, P. (2019). What is Super Semantics? Philosophical perspectives, 32, 365-453. doi:10.1111/phpe.12122

Schlenker, P. (2002). Conditionals as Definite Descriptions (A Referential Analysis) Journal of Language & Computation, 2(3), 417-462. doi:10.1007/s11168-004-0908-2