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

Ghambaryan, A., Gutkin, B., Klucharev, V. & Koechlin, E. (2021). Additively Combining Utilities and Beliefs: Research Gaps and Algorithmic Developments. Frontiers in Neuroscience, . doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.704728

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

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Findling, C. & Koechlin, E. (2018). Believing in one's power: a counterfactual heuristic for goal-directed control. bioRxiv, 498675. doi:10.1101/498675

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Koechlin, E. (2021). Computational models of adaptive behavior and prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, 58–71. doi:10.1038/s41386-021-01123-1

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

Koechlin, E. (2020). Executive Control and Decision-Making: a neural theory of prefrontal function. The Cognitive Neurosciences VI (pp. 451).

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

Koechlin, E. (2020). Human Decision-Making beyond the Rational Decision Theory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(1), 4-6. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.11.001

Findling, C., Chopin, N. & Koechlin, E. (2021). Imprecise neural computations as a source of adaptive behaviour in volatile environments. Nature Human Behaviour , 5, 99-112. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-00971-z

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

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

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

Mansouri, F., Koechlin, E., Rosa, M. & Buckley, M. (2017). Managing competing goals - a key role for the frontopolar cortex. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 18(11), 645-657. doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.111

Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Jacquet, P., Barbalat, G., Bouton, S., Pacherie, E., Koechlin, E. & Farrer, C. (2017). Neural coding of prior expectations in hierarchical intention inference. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1278. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01414-y

Domenech, P., Rheims, S. & Koechlin, E. (2020 ). Neural Mechanisms resolving Exploitation-Exploration dilemmas in the prefrontal cortex. Science, 369(6507), eabb0184. doi:10.1126/science.abb0184

Koechlin, E. (2018). Prefrontal function and cognitive control: from action to language. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21, 106-111. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.03.008

Rouault, M., Drugowitsch, J. & Koechlin, E. (2019). Prefrontal mechanisms combining rewards and beliefs in human decision-making. Nature Communications, 10, 301. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08121-w

Romagnoni, A. , Colonnese, M. , Touboul, J. & Gutkin, B. (2020). Progressive alignment of inhibitory and excitatory delay may drive a rapid developmental switch in cortical network dynamics. J. of Neurophysiology, 123(5), 1583-1599. doi:10.1152/jn.00402.2019

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