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

Abdel Sater, R., Mus, M., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2023). A zero-cost attention-based approach to promote cleaner streets: A Signal Detection Theory approach in Parisian streets. PloS one, 18(4), e0284272. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0284272

Lee, J. , Rouault, M. & Wyart, V. (2023). Adaptive tuning of human learning and choice variability to unexpected uncertainty. Science Advances, 9(13). doi:10.1126/sciadv.add0501

Le Bars, S., Devaux, A., Nevidal, T., Chambon, V. & Pacherie, E. (2020). Agents' pivotality and reward fairness modulate sense of agency in cooperative joint action. Cognition, 195, 104117. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104117

Balsdon, T., Schweitzer, R. , Watson, T. & Rolfs, M. (2018). All is not lost: Post-saccadic contributions to the perceptual omission of intra-saccadic streaks. Consciousness and Cognition , 64, 19-31. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.004

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

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

Kuhn, J., Geraci, C., Schlenker, P. & Strickland, B. (2021). Boundaries in Space and Time: Iconic Biases Across Modalities . Cognition, 210, 104596. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596

Kominsky, J. , Baker, L. , Keil Frank, C. & Strickland, B. (2021). Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations. Memory and Cognition, 49, 518-531. doi:10.3758/s13421-020-01102-9

Findling, C. & Wyart, V. (2021). Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38, 124-132. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.018

Findling, C., Skvortsova , V., Dromnelle, R. , Palminteri, S. & Wyart, V. (2019). Computational noise in reward-guided learning drives behavioral variability in volatile environments. Nature Neuroscience , 22, 2066–2077. doi:10.1101/439885

Balsdon, T., Wyart, V. & Mamassian, P. (2020). Confidence controls perceptual evidence accumulation. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1753. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15561-w

Falck, A., Labouret, G., Izard, V., Wertz, A., Keil Frank, C. & Strickland, B. (2020). Core cognition in adult vision: A surprising discrepancy between the principles of object continuity and solidity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(12), 2250–2263. doi:10.1037/xge0000785

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

Strickland, B. & Chemla, E. (2018). Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. PloS one, 13(1), e0184132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184132

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

Herrera-Masurel, A., Altay, S. & Mercier, H. (2023). Does nuclear energy produce neodymium? Negative perception of nuclear energy drives the assumption that it is polluting. Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 29(3), 572-583. doi:10.1037/xap0000477

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

Dezecache, G. & Mercier, H. (2022). Emotional Vigilance. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

Kovarski, K., Mennella, R., Wong, S., Dunkley, B., Taylor, M. & Batty, M. (2019). Enhanced Early Visual Responses During Implicit Emotional Faces Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 49(3), 871-886. doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3787-3

O'Madagain, C. (2019). Epistemic Injustice at the Conceptual Level: Are We Entitled to Our Own Concepts? Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12, 64-80

Cova, F., Strickland, B., Abatista, A., Allard, A. , Andow, J., Attie, M., Beebe, J., Berniūnas, R., Boudesseul, J., Colombo, M., Cushman, F., Diaz, R., N’djaye Nikolai Van Dongen, N., Dranseika, V., Earp, B., Torres, A. , Hannikainen, I., Hernández-Conde, J., Hu, W., Jaquet, F., Khalifa, K., Kim, H., Kneer, M., Knobe, J., Kurthy, M., Lantian, A., Liao, S., Machery, E., Moerenhout, T., Mott, C., Phelan, M., Phillips, J., Rambharose, N., Reuter, K., Romero, F., Sousa, P., Sprenger, J. , Thalabard, E., Tobia, K., Viciana, H. , Wilkenfeld, D. & Zhou, X. (2021). Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(1), 9-44. doi:10.1007/s13164-018-0400-9

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Tyrand, R., Guggisberg, A., Seeck, M., Karkar, S., Van De Ville, D. & Giraud, A. (2018). Focal versus distributed temporal cortex activity for speech sound category assignment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, . doi:10.1073/pnas.1714279115

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