Publications

Dubourg, E., Dheilly, T., Mercier, H. & Morin, O. (2025). Using the Nested Structure of Knowledge to Infer What Others Know. Psychological science, 36(6), 443-450. doi:10.1177/09567976251339633

Mercier, M. , Dubourg, E. & Mercier, H. (2025). Insight-seeking is consistent across domains and distinct from other forms of curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences, 237(113051). doi:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113051

Mus, M., de Rouilhan, S., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2024). Energy subsidies versus cash transfers: the causal effect of misperceptions on public support for countermeasures during the energy crisis. Energy Research & Social Science, 1178(103836). doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103836

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2024). “Our roots run deep”: Historical myths as culturally evolved technologies for coalitional recruitment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47(e171). doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

Dubourg, E., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2021). L’origine des fictions : l’hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales. Fabula-LhT, 25

De Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. , Nettle, D. & van Gelder, J. (2023). Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model. , Vol. 290: In . doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2095

Ecoffet, P., Fontbonne, N., Andre, J. & Bredeche, N. (2021). Reinforcement Learning with Rare Significant Events: Direct Policy Search vs. Gradient Policy Search. In GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, New YorkNYUnited States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3449726

Dubourg, E., Mogoutov, A. & Baumard, N. (2023). Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation. , Vol. 1613: In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), Paris, France, 0073.

Langlais, P. , Camps, J. , Baumard, N. & Morin, O. (2022). From Roland to Conan: First results on the corpus of French literary fictions (1050-1920) In Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), Tokyo, Japan.

Ecoffet, P., Andre, J. & Bredeche, N. (2020). Learning to Cooperate in a Socially Optimal Way in Swarm Robotics. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 251-259. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00315

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2021). L'Énigme de la raison.

Mercier, H. (2020 ). Not Born Yesterday. Princeton University Press

Chevallier, C. & Perona, M. (2022). Homo sapiens dans la cité: Comment adapter l'action publique à la psychologie humaine. Odile Jacob

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

Fitouchi, L., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2024). Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions? Carving Morality at Its Functional Joints. In Laith Al-Shawaf, and Todd K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions . doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.35

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2023). Do Fictions Impact People's Beliefs? A Critical View. The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief (Routledge ed., pp. 18).

Chevallier, C. (2021). Vivre dans un environnement risqué : quels impacts pour la psychologie ? In Claudia Senik (Eds.), Sociétés en danger (Odile Jacob ed., pp. 197 à 208). Paris: La Découverte. doi:10.3917/dec.senik.2021.01.0197

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Chevallier, C. (2019). Theory of mind and autism: Revisiting Baron-Cohen et al.’s Sally-Anne study. In A. Slater and P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies 2nd edition (pp. 148-163).Sage

Mercier, H. (2019 in press). A paradox of information aggregation: We do it well but think about it poorly, and why this is a problem for institutions. In Ballantyne, N. & Dunning, D. (Eds.), Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and PsychologyOxford University Press

Baumard, N. & Cova, F. (2018). De la coopération à la culture. In Andler, Collins, Tallon-Baudry (Eds.), La cognition. Du neurone à la société (pp. 563-597). Paris: Gallimard