Publications

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

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

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

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

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., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

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

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

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

Jacquet, P., Safra, L., Wyart, V., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2019). The ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversity. Royal Society Open Science, 6(1), 180454. doi:10.1098/rsos.180454

Safra, L., Chevallier, C. & Palminteri, S. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007224

Safra, L., Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2019). Social information impairs reward learning in depressive subjects: behavioral and computational characterization. Plos Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1101/378281

Collins, T. & Jacquet, P. (2018). TMS over posterior parietal cortex disrupts trans-saccadic visual stability. Brain stimulation, 11(2), 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.019

Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2018). Can We Infer Inter-Individual Differences in Risk-Taking From Behavioral Tasks? Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2307. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02307

Chambon, V., Farrer, C., Pacherie, E., Leboyer, M., Zalla, T. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Reduced Sensitivity to Social Priors During Action Prediction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cognition, 160, 17–26 . doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.005

Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Jacquet, P., Barbalat, G., Bouton, S., Pacherie, E., Koechlin, E. & Farrer, C. (2017). Neural coding of prior expectations in hierarchical intention inference. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1278. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01414-y

Chevallier, C. (2017). Evolutionary approaches to deprivation transform the ethics of policy making. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e322. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000929

Ioannou, C., Zein, M., Wyart, V., Scheid, I., Amsellem, F., Delorme, R., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2017). Shared mechanism for emotion processing in adolescents with and without autism. Scientific reports, 7, 42696. doi:10.1038/srep42696

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

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

Chanel, G., Pichon, S., Conty, L., Berthoz, S., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2016). Classification of autistic individuals and controls using cross-task characterization of fMRI activity. Neuroimage-Clinical, 10, 78-88. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2015.11.010

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

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

Chanel, G., Pichon, S., Conty, L., Berthoz, S., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2015). Classification of autistic individuals and controls using cross-task characterization of fMRI activity. NeuroImage. Clinical, 10, 78-88. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2015.11.010

Jacquet, P. & Avenanti, A. (2015). Perturbing the action observation network during perception and categorization of actions' goals and grips: state-dependency and virtual lesion TMS effects. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 25(3), 598-608. doi:10.1093/cercor/bht242

Grèzes, J., Valabrègue, R., Gholipour, B. & Chevallier, C. (2014). A direct amygdala-motor pathway for emotional displays to influence action: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Human brain mapping, 35(12), 5974-83. doi:10.1002/hbm.22598

Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J., Molesworth, C., Berthoz, S. & Happé, F. (2012). Brief report: Selective social anhedonia in high functioning autism. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(7), 1504-9. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1364-0

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

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