Publications

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2021). Why Imaginary Worlds?: The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-52. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000923

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Andre, J. (2019). Why cooperation is not running away. Peer Community in Evol. Biol. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/316117

Geoffroy, F., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2019). Why cooperation is not running away. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(2). doi:10.1111/jeb.13508

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786770

Vesper, C., Morisseau, T. , Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D. (2021). When is ostensive communication used for joint action? Cognitive Semiotics, 14(2), 101-129. doi:10.1515/cogsem-2021-2040

Chevallier, C., Noveck, I., Happé, F. & Wilson, D. (2011). What's in a voice? Prosody as a test case for the Theory of Mind account of autism. Neuropsychologia, 49(3), 507-17. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.042

Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2012). What Goes Around Comes Around: The Evolutionary Roots of the Belief in Immanent Justice .

Jacob, P. (2020). What Do False-Belief Tests Show? Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(1), 1–20 . doi:10.1007/s13164-019-00442-z

Chevallier, C. (2021). Vivre dans un environnement risqué : quels impacts pour la psychologie ? In Claudia Senik (Eds.), Sociétés en danger (Odile Jacob ed., pp. 197 à 208). Paris: La Découverte. doi:10.3917/dec.senik.2021.01.0197

Parish-Morris, J., Chevallier, C., Tonge, N., Letzen, J., Pandey, J. & Schultz, R. (2013). Visual attention to dynamic faces and objects is linked to face processing skills: a combined study of children with autism and controls. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 185. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00185

Mercier, H. & Miton, H. (2019). Utilizing simple cues to informational dependency. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 301-314. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.001

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

Remme, M., Lengyel, M. & Gutkin, B. (2015). Trade-off between dendritic democracy and independence in neurons with intrinsic subthreshold membrane potential oscillatio. In Remme et al (eds) (Eds.), Dendritic ComputationSpringer

Carré, A., Chevallier, C., Robel, L., Barry, C., Maria, A., Pouga, L., Philippe, A., Pinabel, F. & Berthoz, S. (2015). Tracking social motivation systems deficits: the affective neuroscience view of autism. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 45(10), 3351-63. doi:10.1007/s10803-015-2498-2

Safra, L., Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in painting. Nature Communications, 11, 4728. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18566-7

Jones, B. , DeBruine, L. , .., .., Chevallier, C. & (Et Al), . (2021). To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply? Nat Hum Behav, 5, 159-169. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7611443.v1

Collins, T. & Jacquet, P. (2018). TMS over posterior parietal cortex disrupts trans-saccadic visual stability. Brain stimulation, 11(2), 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.019

Mell, H., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Time is money. Waiting costs explain why selection favors steeper time discounting in deprived environments. Evolution and Human Behavior , 42(4), 379-387. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.02.003

Gutkin, B. (2015). Theta-neurons. In Springer Verlag (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Comptutational Neuroscience (pp. 1034-1042).

Chevallier, C. (2019). Theory of mind and autism: Revisiting Baron-Cohen et al.’s Sally-Anne study. In A. Slater and P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies 2nd edition (pp. 148-163).Sage

Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E. & Schultz, R. (2012). The social motivation theory of autism. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(4), 231-9. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2012.02.007

Morin, O. & Sobchuk, O. (2021). The shortlist effect: Nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3(E51). doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.48

Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2020). The rise of prosociality in fiction preceded democratic revolutions in Early Modern Europe. PNAS, 117(46), 28684-28691. doi:10.1073/pnas.2009571117

Kelly, P. , Winters, J., Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2021). The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes An Emergent Script of West Africa Recapitulates Historical Change in Writing Systems. Current Anthropology, 62(6). doi:10.1086/717779

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2015). The nature and dynamics of world religions: a life-history approach. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 282(1818), 20151593. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1593

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 11(2), 197-206. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2021.1881607

Dubourg, E., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e98. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001156