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Bai, D., Hafri, A., Izard, V., Firestone, C., & Strickland, B. (2025). "Core perception" : Re-imagining precocious reasoning as sophisticated perceiving. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-75. 

Bai, D., & Strickland, B. (2025). The "Double Ring Illusion" : The physical constraint of solidity shapes visual processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology : General. Advance online publication. 

Esteban-Cantillo, O.J., Abreu, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Wanek, E., Gurchani, U., Eveillard, D. & Casati, R. (2025).Six key policy recommendations to advocate for marine conservation that matches the ocean’s dynamism. npj Ocean Sustain 4, 50.

Baudouin, N., De Rouilhan, S., Huillery, E., Pasquinelli, E., Chevallier, C., Mercier, H. (2025). Interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among adolescents : a randomized controlled trial. Nature Human Behaviour.

Pfänder, J., Kerzhero, L.., & Mercier, H. (2025). Quasi-universal acceptance of basic science in the US. Public Understanding of Science. 

De Dampierre, & Mercier, H. (2025)The structure and evolution of scholarly interests from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Scientometrics.

Dubourg, E., Dheilly, T., Mercier, H., & Morin, O. (2025)People use the nested structure of knowledge to infer what others know. Psychological Science.

Mercier, M., Dubourg, E., & Mercier, H. (2025). Insight-seeking is consistent across domains and distinct from other forms of curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences.

Pfänder, J., De Courson, B., &amp ; Mercier, H. (2025). How wise is the crowd ? Can we infer people are accurate and competent merely because they agree with each other ? Cognition.

Aplogan, P. B. (2025). Le glemɛbo, dispositif rituel d’interdiction au Sud-Bénin

Aplogan, P. B. (2025). Noix Sacrées et Poinçon Magique. 

Battich, L. (2025). Explaining joint attention : Between epistemic justification and psychological processing. Philosophical Psychology.

Casati, R. et al. (2025). Les actes de malveillance se multiplient à l’encontre des associations environnementales et de leurs membres. Le Monde

Wolton, E. (2025). En Suède, la solastalgie du seul peuple autochtone d’Europe face à la ruée minière. The Conversation.

Darcy, G., Mercier, H., Mari, A., Casati, R., Origgi, G., & Yahia, L. (2025, May 28).Lutter contre la désinformation : Penser autrement l’action publique à l’aune des sciences cognitives. 

Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D., Reed, H., Johnson, E. and Robson, I. (2025). Basic Income : The Policy That Changes Everything, Bristol, UK : Policy Press.

Biglietti, N. (2025). Phenomenal intentionality and the sense of togetherness : a defense of the consciousness-first approach to collective intentionality. Synthese, 205(6), 1-31.

Entretien avec Roberto Casati par Francis Lecompte. (2025).« Il faut changer notre regard sur l’océan », dans Océan, la science sur le pont. Carnets de science #18, Printemps / Été 2025, 196 p.

Perroy, B., Velasco, PF., Gurchani, U., Casati, R. (2025). Three forms of temporal disorientation : A thematic analysis of subjective reports about Covid-19 restriction periods. PLOS ONE 20(6) : e0324476.

Lucq, R., Brischoux, M., Casati, R., Pelluchon, C. et P. Coutansais, C. (2025). Pour une éthique de la gouvernance océanique. Revue internationale et stratégique, 138(2), 161-167.

Benoliel, D. and Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2025). Ecosystem Services IP. Exploiting Natural Resources for Innovation. U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 935. 

Battich, L. (2025). Other-centred bias in perception and epistemic justification. Erkenntnis.

Maia, B.G. and Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2025). Analysis of the Working Group’s Recommendations and COP-16 Decision 16/2 on Digital Sequence Information. Global Policy.

Yavuz, M., Bonicalzi, S., Schmitz, L., Battich, L., Esmaily, J., & Deroy, O. (2025). Rational choices elicit stronger sense of agency in brain and behavior. Cognition, 257, 106062.

Karabegović, M., Wang, L., Boyer, P., Mercier, H. (2024). Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Karabegović, M., Blatt, T., Boyer, P. &amp ; Mercier, H. (2024). Intuitive credit attribution and the priority rule. Philosophical Psychology.

Karabegovic, M., &amp ; Mercier, H. (2024). The reputational benefits of intellectual humility. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Lie-Panie, J., Fitouchi, L., Baumard, N., André, J.-B. (2024). "The social leverage effect : Institutions transform weak reputation effects into strong incentives for cooperation", PNAS, 121 (51) 

Wolton, E. (2024). "Une solastalgie autochtone", Projets de paysage [En ligne], 30 | 2024

Battich, L. Pacherie, E., & Grèzes, J. (2024). Social perspective-taking influences on metacognition. Cognition, 254, 105966

Alan Bale & David Nicolas. (2024). Counting individuals and their halves. Linguistics and Philosophy.

Arcangeli, M. & Dokic, J. (2024), Two levels of confusion between imagination and memory, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, s.i. "Successful and unsuccessful remembering and imagining", Ying-Tung Lin, Chris McCarroll, Kirk Michaelian, & Mike T. Stuart (eds)

Arcangeli, M. 2024. "Self-knowledge of Imagining and the Transparency Proposal", in Í. Vendrell Ferran & C. Werner (eds.), Imagination and Experience. Philosophical Explorations, 68-85 Routledge

Salgues, S. ; Jacquot, A. ; Makowski, D. ; Tahar, C. ; Baekeland, J. ; Arcangeli, M. ; Dokic, J. ; Piolino, P. & Sperduti, M. 2024. “Self-reference and emotionalreaction drive aesthetic judgment”, Scientific Reports.

Esteban-Cantillo, O.J., Clerici, N., Avila-Diaz, A. et al. 2024 Historical and future extreme climate events in highly vulnerable small Caribbean Islands. Clim Dyn

Oleg Sobchuk, Mason Youngblood, and Olivier Morin, 2024, First-Mover Advantage in Music, EPJ Data Science

Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps (The MIT Press, 2024) - in Open Access !

Amel Achour-Benallegue et al.2024, Facial Icons as Indexes of Emotions and Intentions, Frontiers in Psychology 15

Fernandez Velasco, P., Perroy, B., Gurchani, U., & Casati, R. (2024). Social and temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 pandemic : An analysis of 3306 responses to a quantitative questionnaire. British Journal of Psychology

Gurchani, M. U., 2024,Right-Wing Twitter Users in France Exhibit Growing Homophily Compared With Left and Center Users. Social Media + Society

 

Highlights

CNRS APPLICATION/ PHILOSOPHY ǀ The Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN) is planning to support applications in philosophy for positions as Chargé de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The present call concerns this preliminary stage of laboratory support by the Institut Jean-Nicod : the official application to CNRS will be submitted by the applicant at a later stage. For further information, click here. For your application to be fully considered, please submit it by November 25, 2025.

 

JEAN NICOD LECTURE PRIZE 2026 ǀ Elisabeth Camp, "Frames and perspectives"

RECRUITMENT ǀ The external competition for the position of scientific mediation assistant at the IJN is online, it is a permanent civil servant position, please spread the word ! The main mission ? Ensure communication for the institute and raise awareness among different audiences about scientific and technical knowledge and research through educational and outreach actions. More info, click here !

 

NEWS | Researchers in social cognition from Jean Nicod speak about their recent researches about the role of institutions in promoting cooperation on the CNRS website (in French).

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INTERVIEWS ǀ A new interdisciplinary wave is set to sweep through ocean studies. With the interviews of Pauline André-Dominguez and Evan Josselin, PhD students members of the Navigations group of Jean Nicod Institute. To know more, click here.

PODCAST ǀ Podcast La Science CQFD (France Culture). Proprioception, le sens de la marche, with Frédérique de Vignemont, research director CNRS, deputy director of Jean Nicod Institute. To know more,click here. 

 

YOUNG PH.D. GRADUATES | Congratulations to Tess FeyenQuentin BlometJakob Süskind, Thomas Souverain and Hugo Trad on defending their thesis !

PRIX ǀ Alda Mari was awarded the Prix de l’innovation en sciences humaines et sociales for its INTACT project (intention detection, action prediction), which aims to detect urgency in social networks during ecological crises, with a learning system that can cover all kinds of ecological crises.

PRIX ǀ François Recanati was awarded the prix Gay-Lussac Humboldt, given by the Humboldt Foundation, for his body of work.


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