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

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

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

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

Geoffroy, F. & Andre, J. (2021). The emergence of cooperation by evolutionary generalization. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1951), 20210338. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0338

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

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