Publications

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

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

Grèzes, J., Valabrègue, R., Gholipour, B. & Chevallier, C. (2014). A direct amygdala-motor pathway for emotional displays to influence action: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Human brain mapping, 35(12), 5974-83. doi:10.1002/hbm.22598

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

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

Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J., Molesworth, C., Berthoz, S. & Happé, F. (2012). Brief report: Selective social anhedonia in high functioning autism. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(7), 1504-9. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1364-0

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

Jacquet, P., Roy, A., Chambon, V., Borghi, A., Salemme, R., Farnè, A. & Reilly, K. (2016). Changing ideas about others' intentions: updating prior expectations tunes activity in the human motor system. Scientific reports, 6, 26995. doi:10.1038/srep26995

Lettinga, N., Mell, H., Algan, Y., Jacquet, P. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E29. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.21

Safra, L., Algan, Y., Tecu, T., Grèzes, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2017). Childhood harshness predicts long-lasting leader preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 645-651. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.05.001

Chanel, G., Pichon, S., Conty, L., Berthoz, S., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2016). Classification of autistic individuals and controls using cross-task characterization of fMRI activity. Neuroimage-Clinical, 10, 78-88. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2015.11.010

Chanel, G., Pichon, S., Conty, L., Berthoz, S., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2015). Classification of autistic individuals and controls using cross-task characterization of fMRI activity. NeuroImage. Clinical, 10, 78-88. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2015.11.010

Mell, H., Safra, L., Baumard, N. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Climate is not a good candidate to account for variations in aggression and violence across space and time. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e91. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001060

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, . doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

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

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., Sijilmassi, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Disease, perceived infectability and threat reactivity: A COVID-19 study. Personality and Individual Difference, 180, 110945. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110945

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, .

Jacquet, P., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2016). Does culture get embrained? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(21), E2873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1603143113

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

Boon-Falleur, M., Dormont, B. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Does higher perceived risk of morbidity and mortality decrease risk-taking? R. Soc. Open Sci., 9(220486). doi:10.1098/rsos.220486

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

Mell, H., Safra, L., Algan, Y., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Early Life Adversity Is Associated With Diminished Social Trust in Adults. Political Psychology, . doi:10.1111/pops.12756

Lettinga, N., Jacquet, P., Andre, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Environmental adversity is associated with lower investment in collective actions. PLoS ONE , 16(1), e0246591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246591

Chevallier, C. (2017). Evolutionary approaches to deprivation transform the ethics of policy making. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e322. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000929

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

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