Publications

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

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). 'Our Roots Run Deep': Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment. The Behavioral and brain sciences, ., 1-44. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

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

Sonié, S., Kassai, B., Pirat, E., Masson, S., Bain, P., Robinson, J., Reboul, A., Wicker, B., Chevallier, C., Beaude-Chervet, V., Deleage, M., Charvet, D., Barthélémy, C., Rochet, T., Tatou, M., Arnaud, V. & Manificat, S. (2011). [French version of screening questionnaire for high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome in adolescent: Autism Spectrum Quotient, Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient. Protocol and questionnaire translation]. Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983), 40(4 Pt 1), e181-8. doi:10.1016/j.lpm.2010.07.016

Claidière, N., Jraissati, Y. & Chevallier, C. (2008). A Colour Sorting Task Reveals the Limits of the Universalist/Relativist Dichotomy. Journal of Culture and Cognition , 8, 211–233

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

Miton, H., Sperber, D. & Hernik, M. (2020). A forward bias in human profile-oriented portraits . Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12866. doi:10.1111/cogs.12866

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

Claidière, N., Trouche, E. & Mercier, H. (2017). Argumentation and the diffusion of counter-intuitive beliefs. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 146(7), 1052-1066. doi:10.1037/xge0000323

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

Mell, H., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2017). Both collection risk and waiting costs give rise to the behavioral constellation of deprivation. Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e333. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17001030

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

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

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

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

Mell, H., Safra, L., Algan, Y., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2018). Childhood environmental harshness predicts coordinated health and reproductive strategies: A cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample from France. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39

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

Molesworth, C., Chevallier, C., Happé, F. & Hampton, J. (2015). Children with autism do not show sequence effects with auditory stimuli. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 144(1), 48-57. doi:10.1037/a0038204

Noveck, I., Chevallier, C., Chevaux, F., Musolino, J. & Bott, L. (2009). Children's Enrichments of Conjunctive Sentences in Context.

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

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

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

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, . doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

Müller, T., Winters, J., Morisseau, T. , Noveck, I. & Morin, O. (2021). Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. Journal of cognitive Psychology, 33(4). doi:10.1080/20445911.2021.1900199

Mercier, H. (2019). Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, In press

Sperber, D., Andre, J. & Claidière, N. (2018). Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 191 - 202. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.007

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

Charafeddine, R., Mercier, H., Yamada, T., Matsui, T., Sudo, M., Germain, P., Bernard, S., Castelain, T. & Van Der Henst, J. (2019). Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children . Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19(3-4), 256–272. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340058

Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2020). Cultural evolution by capital accumulation. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e18. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.19

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