Publications

Yesilaltay , S., Majima, Y. & Mercier, H. (2020 ). It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(3), 235-243. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.004

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Rationalizations Primarily Serve Reputation Management, Not Decision Making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e29. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002115

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Framing messages for vaccination supporters. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 26(4). doi:10.1037/xap0000271

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

Yesilaltay , S., Claidière, N. & Mercier, H. (2020). It Happened to a Friend of a Friend: Inaccurate Source Reporting In Rumor Diffusion. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E49. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.53

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

Geoffroy, F., Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2019). Why cooperation is not running away. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(2). doi:10.1111/jeb.13508

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

Martins, M. , Krause, C. , Neville, D. , Pino, D. , Villringer, A. & Obrig, H. (2019). Recursive hierarchical embedding in vision is impaired by posterior middle temporal gyrus lesions. Brain , 142(10), 3217-3229. doi:10.1093/brain/awz242

Martins, M. , Bianco, R. , Sammler, D. & Villringer, A. (2019). Recursion in action: An fMRI study on the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences. Human Brain Mapping , 40(4). doi:10.1002/hbm.24549

Mercier, H. (2019). Majority rules: how good are we at aggregating convergent opinions? . Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, e6. doi:10.1017/ehs.2019.6

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

Mercier, H. & Miton, H. (2019). Utilizing simple cues to informational dependency. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 301-314. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.001

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2019). Précis of The Enigma of Reason, and reply to commentaries. Theorema, 38(1)

Safra, L., Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2019). Social information impairs reward learning in depressive subjects: behavioral and computational characterization. Plos Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1101/378281

Safra, L., Chevallier, C. & Palminteri, S. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007224

Trouche, E., Shao, J. & Mercier, H. (2019). Objective evaluation of demonstrative arguments. Argumentation, 33, 23–43. doi:10.1007/s10503-018-9472-z

Udden, J. , Martins, M. , Zuidema, W. & Tecumseh Fitch, W. (2019). Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation. Topics in Cognitive Science . doi:10.1111/tops.12442

Baumard, N. (2018). Psychological origins of the industrial revolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-47. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1800211X

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

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

Safra, L., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2018). No strong evidence that authoritarian attitudes are driven by a lack of control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(6), E1076-E1077. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721565115

Chambon, V., Farrer, C., Pacherie, E., Leboyer, M., Zalla, T. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Reduced Sensitivity to Social Priors During Action Prediction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cognition, 160, 17–26 . doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.005

Chevallier, C. (2017). Evolutionary approaches to deprivation transform the ethics of policy making. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40, e322. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000929

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

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

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

Jacquet, P., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2016). Does culture get embrained? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(21), E2873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1603143113

Safra, L., Tecu, T., Lambert, S., Sheskin, M., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2016). Neighborhood Deprivation Negatively Impacts Children's Prosocial Behavior. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1760. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01760

Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2015). The nature and dynamics of world religions: a life-history approach. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 282(1818), 20151593. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1593