Publications

Ecoffet, P., Bredeche, N. & Andre, J. (2021). Nothing better to do? Environment quality and the evolution of cooperation by partner choice. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 527, 110805. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110805

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

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

Guillou, L., Grandin, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust. Royal Society Open Science, 8(6). doi:10.1098/rsos.202104

Jacquet, P., Findling, C., Mell, H., Chevallier, C. & Baumard, N. (2021). Predictive modeling of religiosity, prosociality, and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 8(9). doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00691-9

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

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

Lettinga, N., Jacquet, P., Andre, J., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Environmental adversity is associated with lower investment in collective actions. PLoS ONE , 16(1), e0246591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246591

Lettinga, N., Mell, H., Algan, Y., Jacquet, P. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E29. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.21

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., 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., 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

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

Mercier, H. (2021). How Good Are We At Evaluating Communicated Information? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 89, 257-272. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000096

Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2021). Graphic complexity in writing systems. Cognition, 214 , 104771. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104771

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

Morin, O., Jacquet, P., Vaesen, K. & Acerbi , A. (2021). Social information use and social information waste. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 376, 20200052. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0052

Müller, T., Winters, J., Morisseau, T. , Noveck, I. & Morin, O. (2021). Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. Journal of cognitive Psychology, 33(4). doi:10.1080/20445911.2021.1900199

Safra, L., Sijilmassi, A. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Disease, perceived infectability and threat reactivity: A COVID-19 study. Personality and Individual Difference, 180, 110945. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110945

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

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

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

Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Cultural evolution by capital accumulation. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e18. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.19

Andre, J. & Rousset, F. (2020). Does extrinsic mortality accelerate the pace of life? A bare-bones approach. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(6), 486-492. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.002

Bernard, A., Bredeche, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Indirect genetic effects allow escape from the inefficient equilibrium in a coordination game. Evolution Letters, 4(3), 257-265. doi:10.1002/evl3.155

Charafeddine, R., Zambrana , I., Triniol, B. , Mercier, H., Clément, F. , Kaufmann, L. , Reboul, A. , Pons, F. & Van Der Henst, J. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83, 453-473. doi:10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x

Jacob, P. & Scott-Phillips, T. (2020). Is mindreading a gadget? Synthese , . doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02620-4

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

Kourtis, D., Jacob, P., Sebanz, N. , Sperber, D. & Knoblich, G. (2020). Making sense of human interaction benefits from communicative cues. Scientific Reports, 10(18135). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75283-3

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