Publications

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

Anlló, H., Katsumi, W., Sackur, J. & de Gardelle, V. (2022). Effects of false statements on visual perception hinge on social suggestibility. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 48(8), 889–900. doi:10.1037/xhp0001024

Bouttier, V., Duttagupta, S. , Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). Circular inference predicts nonuniform overactivation and dysconnectivity in brain-wide connectomes. Schizophrenia Research, 245, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.045

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

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

Kharitonov, E. , Polyak, A. , Adi, Y. , Copet, J. , Lakhotia, K. , Nguyen, T. , Rivière, M., Mohamed, A., Dupoux, E. & Hsu, W. (2022). Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 8666–8681. doi:10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.593

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). From hallucinations to synaesthesia: A circular inference account of unimodal and multimodal erroneous percepts in clinical and drug-induced psychosis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 135, 104593. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104593

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

Rahnev, D., Balsdon, T., Charles, L., de Gardelle, V., Denison, R., Desender, K., Faivre, N., Filevich, E., Fleming, S., Jehee, J., Lau, H., Lee, A., Locke, S., Mamassian, P., Odegaard, B., Peters, M., Reyes, G., Rouault, M., Sackur, J., Samaha, J., Sergent, C., Sherman, M., Siedlecka, M., Soto, D., Vlassova, A. & Zylberberg, A. (2022). Consensus goals for the field of visual metacognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, . doi:10.1177/17456916221075615

Rouy, M. , de Gardelle, V., Reyes, G., Sackur, J., Vergnaud , J., Filevich, E. & Nathan, F. (2022). Metacognitive improvement: Disentangling adaptive training from experimental confounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0001185

Stephen, W., Christophe, G., Veikko, J., Sackur, J. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2022). Neuronal correlates of the subjective experience of attention. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(11-12), 3465-3482. doi:10.1111/ejn.15395

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

Angeletos Chrysaitis, N. , Jardri, R., Denève, S. & Seriès, P. (2021). No increased circular inference in adults with high levels of autistic traits or autism. Plos Computational Biology, 17(9), e1009006. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009006

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

David, A., Mahiko, K., Sackur, J. & Vincent De, G. (2021). Confidence can be automatically integrated across two visual decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(2), 161-171. doi:10.1037/xhp0000884

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

Konishi, M., Bruno, B., de Gardelle, V. & Sackur, J. (2021). Multitasking costs on metacognition in a triple-task paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, . doi:10.3758/s13423-021-01967-0

Landry, M., Da Silva Castanheira , J., Sackur, J. & Raz, A. (2021). Difficult Turned Easy: Suggestion Renders a Challenging Visual Task Simple. Psychological Science, 32(1), 39-49. doi:10.1177/0956797620954856

Landry, M., Da Silva Castanheira , J., Sackur, J. & Raz, A. (2021). Investigating how the modularity of visuospatial attention shapes conscious perception using type I and type II signal detection theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. doi:10.1037/xhp0000810

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Jardri, R. & Denève, S. (2021). A functional theory of bistable perception based on dynamical circular inference. Plos Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008480. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008480

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

Recanatesi, S., Farrell, M., Lajoie, G., Denève, S., Rigotti, M. & Shea-Brown, E. (2021). Predictive learning as a network mechanism for extracting low-dimensional latent space representations. Nature Communications, 12(1417). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21696-1

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