Publications

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

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

Yesilaltay , S., De Araujo, E. & Mercier, H. (2022). “If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news. Digital Journalism, 10(3), 373-394. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163

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, 47(e171), 1–63. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000013

Sonié, S., Kassai, B., Pirat, E., Masson, S., Bain, P., Robinson, J., Reboul, A., Wicker, B., Chevallier, C., Beaude-Chervet, V., Deleage, M., Charvet, D., Barthélémy, C., Rochet, T., Tatou, M., Arnaud, V. & Manificat, S. (2011). [French version of screening questionnaire for high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome in adolescent: Autism Spectrum Quotient, Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient. Protocol and questionnaire translation]. Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983), 40(4 Pt 1), e181-8. doi:10.1016/j.lpm.2010.07.016

Claidière, N., Jraissati, Y. & Chevallier, C. (2008). A Colour Sorting Task Reveals the Limits of the Universalist/Relativist Dichotomy. Journal of Culture and Cognition , 8, 211–233

Grèzes, J., Valabrègue, R., Gholipour, B. & Chevallier, C. (2014). A direct amygdala-motor pathway for emotional displays to influence action: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Human brain mapping, 35(12), 5974-83. doi:10.1002/hbm.22598

Miton, H., Sperber, D. & Hernik, M. (2020). A forward bias in human profile-oriented portraits . Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12866. doi:10.1111/cogs.12866

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J., Molesworth, C., Berthoz, S. & Happé, F. (2012). Brief report: Selective social anhedonia in high functioning autism. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(7), 1504-9. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1364-0

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

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

Lettinga, N., Mell, H., Algan, Y., Jacquet, P. & Chevallier, C. (2021). Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E29. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.21

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

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

Molesworth, C., Chevallier, C., Happé, F. & Hampton, J. (2015). Children with autism do not show sequence effects with auditory stimuli. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 144(1), 48-57. doi:10.1037/a0038204

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

Chanel, G., Pichon, S., Conty, L., Berthoz, S., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2015). 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

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

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

Müller, T., Winters, J., Morisseau, T. , Noveck, I. & Morin, O. (2021). Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. Journal of cognitive Psychology, 33(4). doi:10.1080/20445911.2021.1900199

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