Publications

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

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

Balsdon, T. & Clifford, C. (2018). Visual processing: conscious until proven otherwise. , 5(1). doi:10.1098/rsos.171783

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

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

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

Murez, M., Smortchkova, J. & Strickland, B. (2020). The mental files theory of singular thought: A psychological perspective. In R. Goodman, J. Genone and N. Kroll (Eds.), Singular Thought and Mental FilesOxford University Press

Palminteri, S., Wyart, V. & Koechlin, E. (2017). The Importance of Falsification in Computational Cognitive Modeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(6), 425-433. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.03.011

King, J. & Wyart, V. (2021). The Human Brain Encodes a Chronicle of Visual Events at each Instant of Time thanks to the Multiplexing of Traveling Waves. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(34), 7224-7233. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2098-20.2021

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. (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

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

Bai, D., Falck, A. & Strickland, B. (2021). The adult visual system resists learning continuity violations. Journal of vision, 21, 2590. doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2590

Balsdon, T. & Clifford, C. (2018). Task Dependent Effects of Head Orientation on Perceived Gaze Direction. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2491. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02491

Csaba Farkas, B. , Baptista, A., Speranza, M., Wyart, V. & Olivier Jacquet, P. (2024). Specifying the timescale of early life unpredictability helps explain the development of internalising and externalising behaviours. Scientific reports, 14(1), 3563. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-54093-x

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

Morin, O., Jacquet, P., Vaesen, K. & Acerbi , A. (2021). Social information use and social information waste. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 376, 20200052. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0052

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

Falck, A., Strickland, B. & Jacob, P. (2022). Social Cognition and Moral Evaluation in Early Human Childhood. In O. Houdé & G. Borst (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ed., pp. 269-298). doi:10.1017/9781108399838.016

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

Balsdon, T., Mamassian, P. & Wyart, V. (2021). Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions. eLife, 10, e68491. doi:10.7554/eLife.68491

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

Balsdon, T., Wyart, V. & Mamassian, P. (2022). Robust changes in confidence efficiency during post-decision time windows. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3251. doi:10.1167/jov.22.14.3251

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

Strickland, B. & De Cruz , H. (2021). Replicability in Cognitive Science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 1-7. doi:10.1007/s13164-021-00531-y

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

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

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