Publications

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

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

Latimier, A., Kovarski, K., Peyre, H., Fernandez, L. , Gras, D., Leboyer, M. & Zalla, T. (2019). Trustworthiness and Dominance Personality Traits’ Judgments in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. doi:10.1007/s10803-019-04163-1

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

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

Murez, M., Smortchkova, J. & Strickland, B. (2020). The mental files theory of singular thought: A psychological perspective. In R. Goodman, J. Genone and N. Kroll (Eds.), Singular Thought and Mental FilesOxford University Press

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

Rahnev, D., Desender, K., Lee, A., Adler, W., Aguilar-Lleyda, D., Akdoğan, B., Arbuzova, P., Atlas, L., Balcı, F., Bang, J., Bègue, I., Birney, D., Brady, T., Calder-Travis, J., Chetverikov, A., Clark, T., Davranche, K., Denison, R., Dildine, T., Double, K., Duyan, Y., Faivre, N., Fallow, K., Filevich, E., Gajdos, T., Gallagher, R., de Gardelle, V., Gherman, S., Haddara, N., Hainguerlot, M., Hsu, T., Hu, X., Iturrate, I., Jaquiery, M., Kantner, J., Koculak, M., Konishi, M., Koß, C., Kvam, P., Kwok, S., Lebreton, M., Lempert, K., Ming Lo, C., Luo, L., Maniscalco, B., Martin, A., Massoni, S., Matthews, J., Mazancieux, A., Merfeld, D., O'Hora, D., Palser, E., Paulewicz, B., Pereira, M., Peters, C., Philiastides, M., Pfuhl, G., Prieto, F., Rausch, M., Recht, S. , Reyes, G., Rouault, M., Sackur, J., Sadeghi, S., Samaha, J., Seow, T., Shekhar, M., Sherman, M., Siedlecka, M., Skóra, Z., Song, C., Soto, D., Sun, S., Van Boxtel, J., Wang, S., Weidemann, C., Weindel, G., Wierzchoń, M., Xu, X., Ye, Q., Yeon, J., Zou, F. & Zylberberg, A. (2020). The Confidence Database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 317–325. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0813-1

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

Bai, D., Falck, A. & Strickland, B. (2021). The adult visual system resists learning continuity violations. Journal of vision, 21, 2590. doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2590

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

Falck, A., Strickland, B. & Jacob, P. (2022). Social Cognition and Moral Evaluation in Early Human Childhood. In O. Houdé & G. Borst (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ed., pp. 269-298). doi:10.1017/9781108399838.016

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

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

Strickland, B. & De Cruz , H. (2021). Replicability in Cognitive Science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 1-7. doi:10.1007/s13164-021-00531-y

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

Mercier, H. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

Van Bavel, J. , Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J., Pavlović, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M., Azevedo, F., Birtel, M., Cislak, A., Lockwood, P., Ross, R., Abts, K., Agadullina, E., Aruta, J. , Besharati, S. , Bor, A., Choma, B. , Crabtree, C. , Cunningham, W. , De, K., Ejaz, W., Elbaek, C. , Findor, A., Flichtentrei, D., Franc, R., Gjoneska, B., Gruber, J., Gualda, E., Horiuchi, y., Huynh, T. , Ibanez, A., Imran, M. , Israelashvili, J., Jasko, K., Kantorowicz, J., Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E., Krouwel, A., Laakasuo, M., Lamm, C., Leygue, C., Lin, M., Mansoor, M. , Marie, A. , Mayiwar, L., Mazepus, H., Mchugh, C., Minda, J. , Mitkidis, P., Olsson, A., Otterbring, T., Packer, D. , Perry, A., Petersen, M. , Puthillam, A., Riaño-Moreno, J. , Rothmund, T., Santamaría-García, H., Schmid, P. , Stoyanov, D., Tewari, S., Todosijević, B., Tsakiris , M., Tung, H., Umbreș, R. , Vanags, E., Vlasceanu, M., Vonasch, A., Yucel, M., Zhang, Y., Abad, M., Adler, E., Akrawi, N., Mdarhri, H. , Amara, H., Amodio, D. , Antazo, B. , Apps, M., Ay, F. , Ba, M. , Bai, X., Baquiano, M. , Barbosa, S., Bastian, B., Belleza, D. , Berg, A., Bernal-Zárate, M. , Bernstein, M., Białek, M., Bilancini, E., Bogatyreva, N., Boncinelli, L., Booth, J. , Borau, S., Buchel, O., Cameron, D., Carvalho, C. , Celadin, T., Cerami, C., Chalise, H. , Cheng, X., Cian, L., Cockcroft, K., Conway, J., Córdoba-Delgado, M. , Crespi, C., Crouzevialle, M., Cutler, J., Cypryańska, M., Dabrowska, J., Daniels, M. , Davis, V. , Dayley, P. , Delouvee, S., Denkovski, O., Dezecache, G., Dhaliwal, N. , Diato, A. , Paolo, R. , Drosinou, M., Dulleck, U., Ekmanis, J., Ertan, A. , Farkhari, T. , Farmer, H., Fenwick, A., Fidanovski, K., Flew, T., Fraser, S., Frempong, R. , Fugelsang, J. , Gale, J., Garcia-Navarro, E. , Garladinne, P., Ghajjou, O., Gkinopoulos, T., Gray, K., Griffin, S. , Gronfeldt, B., Gümren, M., Gurung, R., Halperin, E., Harris, E., Herzon, V., Hruška, M., Huang, G. , Hudecek, M. , Isler, O., Jangard, S., Jørgensen, F. , Kachanoff, F., Kahn, J., Dangol, A. , Keudel, L., Koppel, L., Koverola, M., Kubin, E., Kunnari, A., Kutiyski, y., Labor, P. , Laguna, O., Leota, J., Lermer, E., Levy, J., Levy, N., Li, C., Long, E. , Longoni, C., Maglić, M., Mccashin, D., Metcalf, A. , Mikloušić, I., Mimouni, S. , Miura, A., Molina-Paredes, J., Monroy-Fonseca, C., Morales-Marente, E., Moreau, D., Muda, R., Myer, A., Nash, K., Nesh-Nash, T., Nitschke, J. , Nurse, M. , Ohtsubo, y., Mello, V. , O'Madagain, C., Onderco, M., Palacios-Galvez, M. , Palomäki, J., Pan, y., Papp, Z., Pärnamets, P., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlović, Z., Gómez, C. , Perander, S., Pitman, M. , Prasad, R., Pyrkosz-Pacyna, J., Rathje, S., Raza, A., Rêgo, G. , Rhee, K., Robertson, C. , Rodríguez-Pascual, I., Saikkonen, T., Salvador-Ginez, O., Sampaio, W. , Santi, G. , Santiago-Tovar, N., Savage, D., Scheffer, J. , Schönegger, P., Schultner, D. , Schutte, E. , Scott, A., Sharma, M., Sharma, P., Skali, A., Stadelmann, D., Stafford, C. , Stanojević, D., Stefaniak, A., Sternisko, A., Stoica, C. , Stoyanova, K. , Strickland, B., Sundvall, J., Thomas, J. , Tinghög, G., Torgler, B., Traast, I. , Tucciarelli, R., Tyrala, M., Ungson, N. , Uysal, M. , Lange, P. , Prooijen, J. , Rooy, D. , Västfjäll, D., Verkoeijen, P., Vieira, J. , Sikorski, C. , Walker, A. , Watermeyer, J., Wetter, E., Whillans, A., Willardt, R., Wohl, M. , Wójcik, A. , Wu, K., Yamada, y., Yilmaz, O., Yogeeswaran, K., Ziemer, C., Zwaan, R. & Boggio, P. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications, 13(1), 517. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9

Marie, A. , Altay, S. & Strickland, B. (2023). Moralization and extremism robustly amplify myside sharing. PNAS nexus, 2(4), pgad078. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad078

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2021). L'Énigme de la raison.

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

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2021). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3), 445-463. doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

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

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2021). Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000400

Karjalainen, S. , Sahlén, B. , Falck, A. & Åhlander, V. (2020). Implementation and evaluation of a teacher intervention program on classroom communication. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, . doi:10.1080/14015439.2019.1595131