Publications

Yesilaltay , S., De Araujo, E. & Mercier, H. (2022). “If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news. Digital Journalism, 10(3), 373-394. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163

Jardri, R. & Denève, S. (2017). [Jumping-to-conclusions in schizophrenia is mediated by circular inference]. Medecine sciences : M/S, 33(11), 933-935. doi:10.1051/medsci/20173311006

Lussange, J., Belianin, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Gutkin, B. (2017). A bright future for financial agent-based models. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08222

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Jardri, R. & Denève, S. (2021). A functional theory of bistable perception based on dynamical circular inference. Plos Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008480. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008480

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2022). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Claidière, N., Trouche, E. & Mercier, H. (2017). Argumentation and the diffusion of counter-intuitive beliefs. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 146(7), 1052-1066. doi:10.1037/xge0000323

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

Leptourgos, P., Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2017). Can circular inference relate the neuropathological and behavioral aspects of schizophrenia? Current opinion in neurobiology, 46, 154-161. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2017.08.012

Jardri, R., Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V. & Denève, S. (2020). Circular Inference and Hallucinations. Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), S41-S42. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.131

Leptourgos, P., Notredame, C., Jardri, R., Denève, S. & Eck, M. (2020). Circular inference in bistable perception. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 521195. doi:10.1167/jov.20.4.12

Bouttier, V., Duttagupta, S. , Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). Circular inference predicts nonuniform overactivation and dysconnectivity in brain-wide connectomes. Schizophrenia Research, 245, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.045

Koren, V. & Denève, S. (2017). Computational Account of Spontaneous Activity as a Signature of Predictive Coding. PLoS computational biology, 13(1), e1005355. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005355

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

Hacquin, A., Yesilaltay , S., Aaroe, L. & Mercier, H. (2022). Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 80(101749). doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101749

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

Mercier, H. & Claidière, N. (2022). Does discussion make crowds any wiser? Cognition, 22, 104912. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104912

De Araujo, E. , Yesilaltay , S., Bor, A. & Mercier, H. (2021). Dominant Jerks: People Infer Dominance From the Utterance of Challenging and Offensive Statements. Social Psychological Bulletin, 16(4), e6999. doi:10.32872/spb.6999

Zeldenrust, F., Gutkin, B. & Denève, S. (2021). Efficient and robust coding in heterogeneous recurrent networks. Plos Computational Biology, 17(4), e1008673. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008673

Zeldenrust, F., De Knecht, S., Wadman, W., Denève, S. & Gutkin, B. (2017). Estimating the Information Extracted by a Single Spiking Neuron from a Continuous Input Time Series. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 11, 49. doi:10.3389/fncom.2017.00049

Jardri, R., Duverne, S., Litvinova, A. & Denève, S. (2017). Experimental evidence for circular inference in schizophrenia. Nature communications, 8, 14218. doi:10.1038/ncomms14218

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

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). From hallucinations to synaesthesia: A circular inference account of unimodal and multimodal erroneous percepts in clinical and drug-induced psychosis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 135, 104593. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104593

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

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

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

Bernard, A., Bredeche, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Indirect genetic effects allow escape from the inefficient equilibrium in a coordination game. Evolution Letters, 4(3), 257-265. doi:10.1002/evl3.155

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2021). Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000400

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2021). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3), 445-463. doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

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