Publications

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

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

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

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

E W Varnum, M., Baumard, N., Atari, M. & Gray, K. (2024). Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(42), e2407639121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2407639121