Publications

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. & 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

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

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

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

Mercier, H. (2020). Divination as polling: Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, .

Miton, H., Sperber, D. & Hernik, M. (2020). A forward bias in human profile-oriented portraits . Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12866. doi:10.1111/cogs.12866

Miton, H., Vesper, C., Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D. (2020). Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm. Proceedings of the royal society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2001

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abrusan, M. (2019). Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity, and Ungrammaticality. Annual Review of Linguistics 2019, 5(1), 329-351. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011938

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

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

Charafeddine, R., Mercier, H., Yamada, T., Matsui, T., Sudo, M., Germain, P., Bernard, S., Castelain, T. & Van Der Henst, J. (2019). Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children . Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19(3-4), 256–272. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340058

Chemla, E. & Egré, P. (2019). Suszko's problem: mixed consequence and compositionality. Review of Symbolic Logic, 12(4), 736-767. doi:10.1017/S1755020318000503

Chemla, E., Buccola, B. & Dautriche, I. (2019). Connecting content and logical words. Journal of Semantics, ffz001. doi:10.1093/jos/ffz001

Dieuleveut, A., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019 ). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 150-171. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008

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

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

Kuhn, J. (2019). Pluractionality and distributive numerals. Language and Linguistics Compass, 13(2), e12309. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12309

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009

Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Dunbar, E. (2019). Manipulated decision tasks to decode behavioral measures: the case of mouse-tracking. Behavior Research Methods, TBA