Publications

Pacherie, E., Le Bars, S., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Wyart, V., Sari, I. & Chambon, V. (2022). Motor coordination and strategic cooperation in joint action. Psychological science, 33(5), 736-751. doi:10.1177/09567976211053275

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

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

Morin, O., Müller, T., Morisseau, T. & Winters, J. (2022). Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed-Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming App. Cognitive Science, 46(2), e13113. doi:10.1111/cogs.13113

Dumont, G., Pérez-Cervera, A. & Gutkin, B. (2022). A framework for macroscopic phase-resetting curves for generalised spiking neural networks. Plos Computational Biology. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010363

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2022). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

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

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

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

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., 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

Mercier, H. & Claidière, N. (2022). Does discussion make crowds any wiser? Cognition, 22, 104912. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104912

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

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

Csaba Farkas, B. , Jacquet, P. & Chambon, V. (2022). Do perceived control and time orientation mediate the effect of early life adversity on reproductive behaviour and health status? Insights from the European Value Study and the European Social Survey. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(52). doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01066-y

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2022). From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions. Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2022.2065352

Valente, A., Ostojic, S. & Pillow, J. (2022). Probing the Relationship Between Latent Linear Dynamical Systems and Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Network Models. Neural Computation, 1-22. doi:10.1162/neco_a_01522

Atkinson-Clement, C. , Maël, L., Patsalides, L. , De Liege, A. , Klein, Y. , Roze, E. , Deniau, E. , Andreas, H., Palminteri, S. & Yulia, W. (2022). Decision-making under risk and ambiguity in adults with Tourette syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291722002318

De Jesus Dias Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2022). How to Develop Reliable Instruments to Measure the Cultural Evolution of Preferences and Feelings in History? Frontiers in Psychology, 13 . doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786229

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786770

Balsdon, T., Mamassian, P. & Wyart, V. (2021). Neural signatures of confidence after the completion of a perceptual decision. Journal of Vision, 21(9). doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2518

Palminteri, S. & Maël, L. (2022). The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement-learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(7), 607-621. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.005

Cleeremans, A. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2022). Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value. Neuroscience of Consciousness., 2022(1), niac007. doi:10.1093/nc/niac007

Winkler, M. , Dumont, G., Schöll, E. & Gutkin, B. (2021). Phase response approaches to neural activity models with distributed delay. Bio Cybern. doi:10.1007/s00422-021-00910-9

Dezecache, G., Martin, J., Tessier, C. , Safra, L., Pitron, V., Nuss, P. & Grèzes, J. (2021). Nature and determinants of social actions during a mass shooting. Plos One, . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260392

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

Boon-Falleur, M., Bouguen, A. , Charpentier, A. , Algan, Y., Huillery, E. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks to measure socio-emotional skills in students. Scientifice Reports, 12(442). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-04046-5

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

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

Mus, M., Bor, A. & Bang Petersen, M. (2022). Do conspiracy theories efficiently signal coalition membership? An experimental test using the “Who Said What?” design. PLoS ONE , 17(3), e0265211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265211