Publications

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2024). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in cognitive sciences, 28(2), 172-186. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

Bouton, S., Chevallier, C., Hallimat Cissé, A., Heude, B. & Jacquet, P. (2024). Metabolic trade-offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth. Developmental science, 27(4), e13493. doi:10.1111/desc.13493

De Jesus Dias Martins, M. & Baumard, N. (2024). Reproductive Strategies and Romantic Love in Early Modern Europe. Archives of sexual behavior, 53(3), 901-915. doi:10.1007/s10508-023-02759-4

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2024). Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. doi:10.1037/ebs0000355

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V. & Baumard, N. (2024). The psychological origins of science fiction. Poetics, 102(101862). doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101862

Johnson, M. , Johnson, E. , Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2024). Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(131-148). doi:10.1177/13691481221146886

Morin, O. & Sobchuk, O. (2024). Why Monsters Are Dangerous . Poetics Today, 44(4), 647–664. doi:10.1215/03335372-10824226

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., A Johnson, E. , T Johnson, M. & E Pickett, K. (2024). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration, . doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). Cultural technologies for peace may have shaped our social cognition. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 47, e28. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23002637

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

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

A Johnson, E. , Hardill, I. , Johnson, M. & Nettle, D. (2023). Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production. Evidence & Policy, 20(3), 393-405. doi:10.1332/17442648Y2023D000000005

A Johnson, E. , Webster, H., Morrison, J., Thorold, R. , Mathers, A., Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2023). What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health? Journal of Youth Studies, 1-20. doi:10.1080/13676261.2023.2256236

Abdel Sater, R., Mus, M., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2023). A zero-cost attention-based approach to promote cleaner streets: A Signal Detection Theory approach in Parisian streets. PloS one, 18(4), e0284272. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0284272

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., De Dampierre, C., Mogoutov, A. & Baumard, N. (2023). Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories. Scientific reports, 13(1), 8657. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35151-2

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2023). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review, 117(2), 767-772. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Frankenhuis, W. , Borsboom, D. , Nettle, D. & Roisman, G. (2023). Formalizing theories of child development: Introduction to the special section. Child Development, 94(6), 1425-1431. doi:10.1111/cdev.14020

Laurent, R., Alfano Szpiech, Z., S Da Costa, S., Thouzeau, V., A Fortes-Lima, C., Dessarps-Freichey, F., Lémée, L., Utgé, J., A Rosenberg, N., Baptista, M. & Verdu, P. (2023). A genetic and linguistic analysis of the admixture histories of the islands of Cabo Verde. eLife, 12, e79827. doi:10.7554/eLife.79827

Mus, M., Mercier, H. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: The role of mental accounting. Plos Climate, 2(10), e0000227. doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000227

Neal, C. , Pepper, G. , Allen, C. & Nettle, D. (2023). No effect of hunger on attentional capture by food cues: Two replication studies. Appetite, 191(107065). doi:0.1016/j.appet.2023.107065

Nettle, D., Panchanathan, K. & Frankenhuis, W. (2023). Biology, Society, or Choice: How Do Non-Experts Interpret Explanations of Behaviour? Open Mind, 7, 625-651. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00098

Radkani, S., Holton, E. , De Courson, B., Saxe, R. & Nettle, D. (2023). Desperation and inequality increase stealing: evidence from experimental microsocieties. Royal Society Open Science, 10(221385). doi:10.1098/rsos.221385

T. Ross, C. , Nettle, D. & (Et Al), . (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS, 120(22), e2220124120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Thouzeau, V., Affholder, A., Mennecier, P., Verdu, P. & Austerlitz, F. (2023). Inferring linguistic transmission between generations at the scale of individuals. Journal of Language Evolution, lzac009. doi:10.1093/jole/lzac009

Thouzeau, V., Bollée, J. , Cristia, A. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: What conclusions can be drawn? Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(4). doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.03.005

Youngblood, M., M. Stubbersfield, J. , Glassman, R. , Morin, O. & Acerbi , A. (2023). Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(573). doi:10.1057/s41599-023-02106-x

Youngblood, M., Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2023). Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging. , 5(e10). doi:10.1017/ehs.2023.5

Baumard, N., Huillery, E. , Hyafil, A. & Safra, L. (2022). The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nature Human Behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01292-z

Boon-Falleur, M., Grandin, A. , Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022). Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01312-w

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