Publications

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

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2021). L'Énigme de la raison.

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

Marie, A. , Altay, S. & Strickland, B. (2023). Moralization and extremism robustly amplify myside sharing. PNAS nexus, 2(4), pgad078. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad078

Van Bavel, J. , Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J., Pavlović, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M., Azevedo, F., Birtel, M., Cislak, A., Lockwood, P., Ross, R., Abts, K., Agadullina, E., Aruta, J. , Besharati, S. , Bor, A., Choma, B. , Crabtree, C. , Cunningham, W. , De, K., Ejaz, W., Elbaek, C. , Findor, A., Flichtentrei, D., Franc, R., Gjoneska, B., Gruber, J., Gualda, E., Horiuchi, y., Huynh, T. , Ibanez, A., Imran, M. , Israelashvili, J., Jasko, K., Kantorowicz, J., Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E., Krouwel, A., Laakasuo, M., Lamm, C., Leygue, C., Lin, M., Mansoor, M. , Marie, A. , Mayiwar, L., Mazepus, H., Mchugh, C., Minda, J. , Mitkidis, P., Olsson, A., Otterbring, T., Packer, D. , Perry, A., Petersen, M. , Puthillam, A., Riaño-Moreno, J. , Rothmund, T., Santamaría-García, H., Schmid, P. , Stoyanov, D., Tewari, S., Todosijević, B., Tsakiris , M., Tung, H., Umbreș, R. , Vanags, E., Vlasceanu, M., Vonasch, A., Yucel, M., Zhang, Y., Abad, M., Adler, E., Akrawi, N., Mdarhri, H. , Amara, H., Amodio, D. , Antazo, B. , Apps, M., Ay, F. , Ba, M. , Bai, X., Baquiano, M. , Barbosa, S., Bastian, B., Belleza, D. , Berg, A., Bernal-Zárate, M. , Bernstein, M., Białek, M., Bilancini, E., Bogatyreva, N., Boncinelli, L., Booth, J. , Borau, S., Buchel, O., Cameron, D., Carvalho, C. , Celadin, T., Cerami, C., Chalise, H. , Cheng, X., Cian, L., Cockcroft, K., Conway, J., Córdoba-Delgado, M. , Crespi, C., Crouzevialle, M., Cutler, J., Cypryańska, M., Dabrowska, J., Daniels, M. , Davis, V. , Dayley, P. , Delouvee, S., Denkovski, O., Dezecache, G., Dhaliwal, N. , Diato, A. , Paolo, R. , Drosinou, M., Dulleck, U., Ekmanis, J., Ertan, A. , Farkhari, T. , Farmer, H., Fenwick, A., Fidanovski, K., Flew, T., Fraser, S., Frempong, R. , Fugelsang, J. , Gale, J., Garcia-Navarro, E. , Garladinne, P., Ghajjou, O., Gkinopoulos, T., Gray, K., Griffin, S. , Gronfeldt, B., Gümren, M., Gurung, R., Halperin, E., Harris, E., Herzon, V., Hruška, M., Huang, G. , Hudecek, M. , Isler, O., Jangard, S., Jørgensen, F. , Kachanoff, F., Kahn, J., Dangol, A. , Keudel, L., Koppel, L., Koverola, M., Kubin, E., Kunnari, A., Kutiyski, y., Labor, P. , Laguna, O., Leota, J., Lermer, E., Levy, J., Levy, N., Li, C., Long, E. , Longoni, C., Maglić, M., Mccashin, D., Metcalf, A. , Mikloušić, I., Mimouni, S. , Miura, A., Molina-Paredes, J., Monroy-Fonseca, C., Morales-Marente, E., Moreau, D., Muda, R., Myer, A., Nash, K., Nesh-Nash, T., Nitschke, J. , Nurse, M. , Ohtsubo, y., Mello, V. , O'Madagain, C., Onderco, M., Palacios-Galvez, M. , Palomäki, J., Pan, y., Papp, Z., Pärnamets, P., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlović, Z., Gómez, C. , Perander, S., Pitman, M. , Prasad, R., Pyrkosz-Pacyna, J., Rathje, S., Raza, A., Rêgo, G. , Rhee, K., Robertson, C. , Rodríguez-Pascual, I., Saikkonen, T., Salvador-Ginez, O., Sampaio, W. , Santi, G. , Santiago-Tovar, N., Savage, D., Scheffer, J. , Schönegger, P., Schultner, D. , Schutte, E. , Scott, A., Sharma, M., Sharma, P., Skali, A., Stadelmann, D., Stafford, C. , Stanojević, D., Stefaniak, A., Sternisko, A., Stoica, C. , Stoyanova, K. , Strickland, B., Sundvall, J., Thomas, J. , Tinghög, G., Torgler, B., Traast, I. , Tucciarelli, R., Tyrala, M., Ungson, N. , Uysal, M. , Lange, P. , Prooijen, J. , Rooy, D. , Västfjäll, D., Verkoeijen, P., Vieira, J. , Sikorski, C. , Walker, A. , Watermeyer, J., Wetter, E., Whillans, A., Willardt, R., Wohl, M. , Wójcik, A. , Wu, K., Yamada, y., Yilmaz, O., Yogeeswaran, K., Ziemer, C., Zwaan, R. & Boggio, P. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications, 13(1), 517. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9

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

Mercier, H. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

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

Strickland, B. & De Cruz , H. (2021). Replicability in Cognitive Science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 1-7. doi:10.1007/s13164-021-00531-y

Acerbi , A., Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2022). Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 3(1), 1-15. doi:10.37016/mr-2020-87

Duverne, S. & Koechlin, E. (2017). Rewards and Cognitive Control in the Human Prefrontal Cortex. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 27(10), 5024-5039. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx210

Yesilaltay , S., Schwartz, M., Hacquin, A., Allard, A. , Mercier, H. & Blancke, S. (2022). Scaling up interactive argumentation by providing counterarguments with a chatbot. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(4), 579-592. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01271-w

Falck, A., Strickland, B. & Jacob, P. (2022). Social Cognition and Moral Evaluation in Early Human Childhood. In O. Houdé & G. Borst (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ed., pp. 269-298). doi:10.1017/9781108399838.016

Ueshima, A., Mercier, H. & Kameda, T. (2021). Social deliberation systematically shifts resource allocation decisions by focusing on the fate of the least well-off. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104067 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104067

Bouchacourt, F., Palminteri, S., Koechlin, E. & Ostojic, S. (2020). Temporal Chunking as a Mechanism for Unsupervised Learning of Task-Sets. eLife, 9, e50469. doi:10.7554/eLife.50469

Bai, D., Falck, A. & Strickland, B. (2021). The adult visual system resists learning continuity violations. Journal of vision, 21, 2590. doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2590

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

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

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

Palminteri, S., Wyart, V. & Koechlin, E. (2017). The Importance of Falsification in Computational Cognitive Modeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(6), 425-433. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.03.011

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