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Overview

Hugo Mercier is affiliated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with notable contributions in sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, safety research, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including misinformation and its impacts, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, experimental behavioral economics studies, opinion dynamics and social influence, social media and politics, and climate change communication and perception.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Cognition

Some of Mercier's recent papers are:

  • Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe (2020), Social Forces
  • Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation (2020), New Media & Society
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile (2021), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? (2022), Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. (2021), Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied

The scientist has collaborated extensively with coauthors such as Sacha Altay, Coralie Chevallier, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Pascal Boyer, and Yoshimasa Majima.

Mercier's book publications include multiple titles from Princeton University Press and Cambridge University Press. These include two editions of Not Born Yesterday (2020) and The Cognitive Science of Belief (2022).

Best Publications

  • Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory

    Hugo Mercier;Dan Sperber

  • Epistemic Vigilance

    Unknown

  • The Enigma of Reason

    Hugo Mercier;Dan Sperber

  • Reasoning Is for Arguing: Understanding the Successes and Failures of Deliberation

    Hugo Mercier;Hélène Landemore

  • Norms and Beliefs: How Change Occurs

    Cristina Bicchieri;Hugo Mercier

  • Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

    Hugo Mercier

  • The Argumentative Theory: Predictions and Empirical Evidence

    Hugo Mercier

  • Reasoning serves argumentation in children

    Hugo Mercier

  • Why do so Few People Share Fake News? It Hurts Their Reputation.

    Sacha Altay;Anne-Sophie Hacquin;Hugo Mercier

  • Arguments, more than confidence, explain the good performance of reasoning groups

    Emmanuel Trouche;Emmanuel Sander;Hugo Mercier

  • How Preschoolers Use Cues of Dominance to Make Sense of Their Social Environment

    Rawan Charafeddine;Hugo Mercier;Fabrice Clément;Laurence Kaufmann

  • How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science:

    Hugo Mercier

  • Cognitive Obstacles to Pro-Vaccination Beliefs

    Helena Miton;Hugo Mercier

  • Intuitive and reflective inferences

    Hugo Mercier;Dan Sperber

  • Early sensitivity to arguments: how preschoolers weight circular arguments.

    Hugo Mercier;Stéphane Bernard;Fabrice Clément

  • The influence of power and reason on young Maya children's endorsement of testimony.

    Thomas Castelain;Thomas Castelain;Stéphane Bernard;Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst;Hugo Mercier

  • The boss is always right: Preschoolers endorse the testimony of a dominant over that of a subordinate

    Stéphane Bernard;Thomas Castelain;Thomas Castelain;Hugo Mercier;Laurence Kaufmann

  • Confidence as an expression of commitment: why misplaced expressions of confidence backfire

    Colin Vullioud;Fabrice Clément;Thom Scott-Phillips;Hugo Mercier

  • Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting

    Helena Miton;Nicolas Claidière;Hugo Mercier

  • Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment

    Diana Mazzarella;Robert Reinecke;Ira Noveck;Hugo Mercier

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile.

    Coralie Chevallier;Anne Sophie Hacquin;Hugo Mercier

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Vittorio Girotto
Vittorio Girotto Università Iuav di Venezia
Tatsuya Kameda
Tatsuya Kameda Meiji Gakuin University
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University
Pascal Boyer
Pascal Boyer Washington University in St. Louis
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University

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