Publications

Dubourg, E. & Scrivner, C. (2026). Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear: insights from the horror genre. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(1), 106813. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106813

Klopfenstein, A. & Mercier, H. (2026). Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 33(1), 35. doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02789-0

Bateson, M. , Chevallier, C., A Johnson, E. , Johnson, M. , E Pickett, K. & Nettle, D. (2025). Does food insecurity cause anxiety and depression? Evidence from the changing cost of living study. PLOS. doi:10.1371/journal.pmen.0000320

Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2025). The ecological approach to culture. Evolution and Human Behavior, 46(3). doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106686

Beuchot, T., Nettle, D. & Chevallier, C. (2025). Behavioural public policy should take the psychology of poverty into account. Communications psychology, . doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00366-8

Borredon, Q., Bulamac, Z., Crozat, C., Dayre, E., Fuchs, E., Hallo, M., Kerzreho, L., Lavagne D?ortigue, P., Lellouche, T., Samani, H., Penel, S., Ryszefld, N., Sandhu, T., Timsit, A., Yrjö{-}koskinen, J., Morin, O. & Dubourg, E. (2025). Did Teddy Bears Culturally Evolve to Be Cuter? A Preregistered Replication. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 25(1-2), 114–127. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340203

De Courson, B., E Frankenhuis, W. & Nettle, D. (2025). Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 292(2040), 20242071. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2071

de Vignemont, F. (2025). A future orientation for visual experiences. Philosophy and phenomenological research, 111(2), 451-469. doi:10.1111/phpr.70033

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2025). Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 19(1), 76–84. doi:10.1037/ebs0000355

Dubourg, E., Chambon, V. & Baumard, N. (2025). Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends) The Behavioral and brain sciences, 48(e31). doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000542

Dubourg, E., Safa, R. , Thouzeau, V. & Baumard, N. (2025). Charting the rise of imaginary worlds in history. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(580). doi:10.1057/s41599-025-04877-x

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., Borredon, Q. & Baumard, N. (2025). Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 7(e20). doi:10.1017/ehs.2025.10011

et al., .. & Mercier, H. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 713-730. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5

Fan, Z. , Thouzeau, V., De Dampierre, C., Chevallier, C. & Baumard, N. (2025). Name Uniqueness and the rise of individualism in the Western hemisphere (1500 - 2000) Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 9( 100235). doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100235

Fitouchi, L., Singh, M., Andre, J. & Baumard, N. (2025). Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing. Psychological review, . doi:10.1037/rev0000531

Fitouchi, L. & Nettle, D. (2025). Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness. Cognition, 262(106154). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106154

Huillery, E. , Bouguen, A. , Charpentier, A. , Algan, Y. & Chevallier, C. (2025). The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools. The Economic Journal, 135(671), 2276–2301. doi:10.1093/ej/ueaf015

J Krumrei-Mancuso, E., Pärnamets, P., Bland, S., Astola, M., Cichocka, A., De Ridder, J., Mercier, H., Meyer, M., O'Connor, C., Porter, T., Tanesini, A., Alfano, M. & J Van Bavel, J. (2025). Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility. Trends in cognitive sciences, 29(1), 15-27. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2024.09.006

Kim, Y., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2025). The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems. Journal of Memory and Language, 142, 104620. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2025.104620

Mus, M., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2025). Psychological drivers of conservation policy support: A systematic scoping review of quantitative evidence. Journal for Nature Conservation, 86(126910). doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126910

Mus, M., de Rouilhan, S., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2025). Energy subsidies versus cash transfers: the causal effect of misperceptions on public support for countermeasures during the energy crisis. Energy Research & Social Science, 118(103836). doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103836

Neal, C. , V Pepper, G., M Shannon, O., Allen, C., Bateson, M. & Nettle, D. (2025). The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity. Appetite, 18(2). doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107732

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., A Johnson, E. , T Johnson, M. & E Pickett, K. (2025). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration, 59(2), 293-308. doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., E Pickett, K. , T Johnson, M. , A Johnson, E. & Bateson, M. (2025). Why is income volatility associated with poor health? Longitudinal evidence from the UK and France. SSM - population health, 32(101869). doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101869

Pfänder, J., De Courson, B. & Mercier, H. (2025). How wise is the crowd: Can we infer people are accurate and competent merely because they agree with each other? Cognition, 255, 106005. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106005

Pfänder, J., Kerzreho, L. & Mercier, H. (2025). Quasi-universal acceptance of basic science in the United States. Public understanding of science (Bristol, England), . doi:10.1177/09636625251364407

Samani, H., Parsanasab, M. & Baumard, N. (2025). The historical psychology of romantic love in Persia in the very long run (900 - 1920) Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 9(100233). doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100233

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2025). Coalitional psychology and the evolution of nationalistic cultures. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2(47), e197. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2400133X

Abdel Sater, R., Perona, M. , Huillery, E. & Chevallier, C. (2024). The power of personalised feedback: evidence from an indoor air quality experiment. Behavioural Public Policy., 1(38). doi:10.1017/bpp.2024.46

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