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

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

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

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

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

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

Zeldenrust, F., Gutkin, B. & Denève, S. (2021). Efficient and robust coding in heterogeneous recurrent networks. Plos Computational Biology, 17(4), e1008673. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008673

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

Brendel, W. , Bourdoukan, R., Vertechi, P. , Machens, C. & Denève, S. (2020). Learning to represent signals spike by spike. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(3), e1007692. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007692

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

Jardri, R., Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V. & Denève, S. (2020). Circular Inference and Hallucinations. Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), S41-S42. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.131

Leptourgos, P., Notredame, C., Jardri, R., Denève, S. & Eck, M. (2020). Circular inference in bistable perception. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 521195. doi:10.1167/jov.20.4.12

Lussange, J., Lazarevich, I. , Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Palminteri, S. & Gutkin, B. (2020). Modelling Stock Markets by Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. Computational Economics, 57, 113-147. doi:10.1007/s10614-020-10038-w

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

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