Publications

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

Loza, E. , Amsellem, F., Zalla, T., Cartigny, A. , Leboyer, M., Delorme, R., Ramus, F. & Forgeot D'Arc, B. (2023). A mind-reading puzzle: Autistic people are more efficient at a theory-of-mind task. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 101, 102105. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102105

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2022). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Lefebvre, G., Lebreton, M., Meyniel, F., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2017). Behavioural and neural characterization of optimistic reinforcement learning. Nature Human Behaviour , 1(4), 0067

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

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

Kriegel, U. (2018). Brentano’s Dual-Framing Theory of Consciousness. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 97(1), 79-98. doi:10.1111/phpr.12327

Kriegel, U. (2017). Brentano’s Evaluative-Attitudinal Account of Will and Emotion. Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger , 142(4), 529-558

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

Jacquet, P., Roy, A., Chambon, V., Borghi, A., Salemme, R., Farnè, A. & Reilly, K. (2016). Changing ideas about others' intentions: updating prior expectations tunes activity in the human motor system. Scientific reports, 6, 26995. doi:10.1038/srep26995

Safra, L., Algan, Y., Tecu, T., Grèzes, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2017). Childhood harshness predicts long-lasting leader preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 645-651. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.05.001

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Vidal, M., Vandendriessche, C., Haggard, P. & Palminteri, S. (2020). Choosing and learning: outcome valence differentially affects learning from free versus forced choices. Nature Human Behaviour, .

Mell, H., Safra, L., Baumard, N. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Climate is not a good candidate to account for variations in aggression and violence across space and time. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e91. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001060

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, . doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

Dokic, J. (2018). Comments on “Postures of listening” by Victor A. Stoichita and Bernd Brabec de Mori. Terrain. Anthropologie et sciences humaines

Giustina, A. (2017). Conscious Unity From the Top Down: A Brentanian Approach. The Monist, 100(1 ), 16–37

Lefebvre, G., Nioche, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2018). Contrasting temporal difference and opportunity cost reinforcement learning in an empirical money-emergence paradigm. PNAS, 115(49), E11446-E11454. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813197115

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

Sidarus, N., Palminteri, S. & Chambon, V. (2019). Cost-benefit trade-offs in decision-making and learning. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(9), e1007326. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007326

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

Kriegel, U. (2019). Dignāga’s Argument for the Awareness Principle: An Analytic Refinement. Philosophy East & West , 69, 144-156

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, .

Jacquet, P., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2016). Does culture get embrained? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(21), E2873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1603143113

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

Latimier, A. , Riegert, A. , Ly, S. , Peyre, H., Casati, R. & Ramus, F. (2019). Does pre-testing promote better retention than post-testing? npj Science of Learning, 4(15). doi:10.1038/s41539-019-0053-1

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

Conty, L., Dezecache, G., Hugueville, L. & Grèzes, J. (2012). Early binding of gaze, gesture, and emotion: neural time course and correlates. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(13), 4531-4539. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5636-11.2012