Publications

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

Baumard, N., Huillery, E. , Hyafil, A. & Safra, L. (2022). The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nature Human Behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01292-z

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

Guillou, L., Grandin, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust. Royal Society Open Science, 8(6). doi:10.1098/rsos.202104

Chevallier, C., Parish-Morris, J., Tonge, N., Le, L., Miller, J. & Schultz, R. (2014). Susceptibility to the audience effect explains performance gap between children with and without autism in a theory of mind task. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 143(3), 972-9. doi:10.1037/a0035483

Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2022). Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(1), 202-217. doi:10.1093/llc/fqab030

Grandin, A. , Guillou, L., Abdel Sater, R., Foucault, M. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 79, 101720. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101720

Safra, L., Baumard, N., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2020). Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0230011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230011

Morin, O., Jacquet, P., Vaesen, K. & Acerbi , A. (2021). Social information use and social information waste. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 376, 20200052. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0052

Safra, L., Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2019). Social information impairs reward learning in depressive subjects: behavioral and computational characterization. Plos Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1101/378281

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

Kohls, G., Chevallier, C., Troiani, V. & Schultz, R. (2012). Social 'wanting' dysfunction in autism: neurobiological underpinnings and treatment implications. Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 4(1), 10. doi:10.1186/1866-1955-4-10

Boon-Falleur, M., Bouguen, A. , Charpentier, A. , Algan, Y., Huillery, E. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks to measure socio-emotional skills in students. Scientifice Reports, 12(442). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-04046-5

Ioannou, C., Zein, M., Wyart, V., Scheid, I., Amsellem, F., Delorme, R., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2017). Shared mechanism for emotion processing in adolescents with and without autism. Scientific reports, 7, 42696. doi:10.1038/srep42696

Southgate, V., Chevallier, C. & Csibra, G. (2010). Seventeen-month-olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others' referential communication. Developmental science, 13(6), 907-12. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00946.x

Southgate, V., Chevallier, C. & Csibra, G. (2009). Sensitivity to communicative relevance tells young children what to imitate. Developmental science, 12(6), 1013-9. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00861.x

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

Chevallier, C., Wilson, D., Happé, F. & Noveck, I. (2010). Scalar inferences in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 40(9), 1104-17. doi:10.1007/s10803-010-0960-8

Chevallier, C., Huguet, P., Happé, F., George, N. & Conty, L. (2013). Salient social cues are prioritized in autism spectrum disorders despite overall decrease in social attention. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 43(7), 1642-51. doi:10.1007/s10803-012-1710-x

Boon-Falleur, M., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2021). Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors. Evolution and Human Behavior, . doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.04.001

Pavlek, B., Winters, J. & Morin, O. (2020). Reverse engineering cash: Coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically. Cognition, 198, 104182. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104182

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

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

Chambon, V., Farrer, C., Pacherie, E., Leboyer, M., Zalla, T. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Reduced Sensitivity to Social Priors During Action Prediction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cognition, 160, 17–26 . doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.005

Martins, M. , Fischmeister, F. , Gingras, B. & (Et Al), . (2020). Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and detection of melodic hierarchies. Brain Structure and Function , 225, 1997–2015. doi:10.1007/s00429-020-02105-7

Martins, M. , Krause, C. , Neville, D. , Pino, D. , Villringer, A. & Obrig, H. (2019). Recursive hierarchical embedding in vision is impaired by posterior middle temporal gyrus lesions. Brain , 142(10), 3217-3229. doi:10.1093/brain/awz242

Martins, M. , Bianco, R. , Sammler, D. & Villringer, A. (2019). Recursion in action: An fMRI study on the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences. Human Brain Mapping , 40(4). doi:10.1002/hbm.24549

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Rationalizations Primarily Serve Reputation Management, Not Decision Making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e29. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002115

Baumard, N. (2019). Psychological Origins of the Industrial Revolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42(e189), 1–63. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1800211X

Baumard, N. (2018). Psychological origins of the industrial revolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-47. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1800211X