Publications

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

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

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

Schlenker, P., Coye, C. , Steinert{-}threlkeld, S., Klinedinst, N. & Chemla, E. (2022). Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13220 . doi:10.1111/cogs.13220

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

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

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, .

Tieu, L., Pasternak , R., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2018). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics , 3(1), 109. doi:10.5334/gjgl.580

Tieu, L., Pasternak , R., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2017). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks. Glossa, 2, 102. doi:10.5334/gjgl.334

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dezecache, G. & Mercier, H. (2022). Emotional Vigilance. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

O'Madagain, C. (2019). Epistemic Injustice at the Conceptual Level: Are We Entitled to Our Own Concepts? Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12, 64-80

Cova, F., Strickland, B., Abatista, A., Allard, A. , Andow, J., Attie, M., Beebe, J., Berniūnas, R., Boudesseul, J., Colombo, M., Cushman, F., Diaz, R., N’djaye Nikolai Van Dongen, N., Dranseika, V., Earp, B., Torres, A. , Hannikainen, I., Hernández-Conde, J., Hu, W., Jaquet, F., Khalifa, K., Kim, H., Kneer, M., Knobe, J., Kurthy, M., Lantian, A., Liao, S., Machery, E., Moerenhout, T., Mott, C., Phelan, M., Phillips, J., Rambharose, N., Reuter, K., Romero, F., Sousa, P., Sprenger, J. , Thalabard, E., Tobia, K., Viciana, H. , Wilkenfeld, D. & Zhou, X. (2021). Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(1), 9-44. doi:10.1007/s13164-018-0400-9

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

Garcia, B., Lebreton, M., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2023). Experiential values are underweighted in decisions involving symbolic options. Nature human behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01496-3

Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2011). Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures. Journal of Semantics, 28(3), 359-400. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq023

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Tyrand, R., Guggisberg, A., Seeck, M., Karkar, S., Van De Ville, D. & Giraud, A. (2018). Focal versus distributed temporal cortex activity for speech sound category assignment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, . doi:10.1073/pnas.1714279115

Schlenker, P., Chemla, E., Schel, A., Fuller, J., Gautier, J., Kuhn, J., Veselinović, D., Arnold, K., Cäsar, C., Keenan, S., Lemasson, A., Ouattara, K., Ryder, R. & Zuberbühler, K. (2016). Formal monkey linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics, 42(1-2), 1-90. doi:10.1515/tl-2016-0001