Publications

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

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. & 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

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

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

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

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., 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. (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

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

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

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

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

Lunghi, C. (2020). Visual Cortex Rewiring in Retinitis Pigmentosa: Plasticity is Preserved. Neuroscience, 424, 203-204. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.10.053

Betina Ip, I. , Emir, U., Lunghi, C., Parker, A. & Bridge, H. (2021). GABAergic inhibition in the human visual cortex relates to eye dominance. Scientific Reports , 11, 17022. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95685-1

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

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

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

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

Balsdon, T., Wyart, V. & Mamassian, P. (2020). Confidence controls perceptual evidence accumulation. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1753. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15561-w

Grèzes, J., Erblang, M. , Vilarem, E., Quiquempoix, M. , Van Beers, P. , Guillard, M. , Sauvet, F. , Mennella, R. & Rabat, A. (2021). Impact of total sleep deprivation and related mood changes on approach-avoidance decisions to threat-related facial displays. Sleep, zsab186. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsab186

Beaurenaut, M., Dezecache, G. & Grèzes, J. (2021). Action co-representation under threat: A Social Simon study. Cognition, 215, 104829. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104829

Mennella, R., Vilarem, E. & Grèzes, J. (2020). Rapid approach-avoidance responses to emotional displays reflect value-based decisions: Neural evidence from an EEG study. NeuroImage, 222, 117253. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117253

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

Beaurenaut, M., Tokarski , E., Dezecache, G. & Grèzes, J. (2020). The ‘Threat of Scream’ paradigm: a tool for studying sustained physiological and subjective anxiety. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-68889-0

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

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

Erdmann, A. , Joseph Wrisley, D., Allen, B. , Brown, C. , Cohen-Bodenes, S., Elsner, M. , Feng, Y. , D Joseph, B. , Joyeux-Prunel, B. & de Marneffe, M. (2019). Practical, Efficient, and Customizable Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition in the Digital Humanities. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North, 2223-2234. doi:10.18653/v1/N19-1231