Hugo Mercier
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Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (https://t.co/HEzTfRStAU), The Enigma of Reason (https://t.co/8ieDbmzq63).
Nantes, France
Joined July 2017
The paperback of Not Born Yesterday is out today! Here's the thread from the original release https://t.co/xS8ECornUX and more info
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Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe―and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this...
This time it IS out! Not Born Yesterday, arguing that people aren’t gullible. Psychology! Political science! History! Anthropology! Media studies! ToC below, and threads to follow with stuff I wish I’d put in the book https://t.co/ndsX452ibQ
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Lots of famous findings about human behavior are built on the results of economic games - tasks where participants allocate resources or make choices with different payoffs. A new study finds that up to 70% of participants don't understand the instructions of these games.
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 OPEN-RANK, tenure-track job in SOCIAL INFLUENCE. Come be my colleague @UCLA Psychology! Full ad 👉 https://t.co/Pb27M3pYLj Please RT + spread!
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Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years. Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet
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Dartmouth Cognitive Science continues to grow and we are now hiring an assistant professor in artificial and natural intelligence: https://t.co/tqThHCYerO! DMs are open if have questions about the position--review starts Oct 1. Please share with anyone who would be interested!!
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Very excited that the UCLA Social area is hiring. The search is broad (social influence to social cognition to morality) and open-rank (a rarity for UCLA). The search is being led by our newest member of the team, @JaimieKrems. Please spread the word or apply yourself!
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🗞️ New piece in @techreview by @KeeganMcB, @Sacha_Altay and me: We argue that AI’s current impact on elections is being overblown, and it's distracting us from deeper and long-lasting threats to democracy. Long version: https://t.co/PMIpG0cX4l Short summary ⬇️
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And the focus on AI is distracting us from some deeper and longer-lasting threats to democracy.
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Excited to announce the Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Symposium, May 29-31 2025 in Baltimore. An all-star list of speakers discussing issues at the intersection of science and philosophy. https://t.co/M6s68BQXS8
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The Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum will be hosting an international symposium on all aspects of natural philosophy, featuring talks from philosophers and scientists in a variety of discipli...
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"When two cars crash, a 1,000lb increase in the weight of one vehicle raised the fatality rate in the other by 47%." Externalities. https://t.co/35V36ceB5x
economist.com
New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes
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Our lab is recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2025. Please share! If you're interested in adaptationist/computational approaches to human social reasoning, esp. mate choice, I'd love to see your application. More information here: https://t.co/xZE1hzJv1o
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🚨 Job alert ! I am recruiting a 2-y postdoc as part of a research project on international climate justice. I am looking for an English native speaker with experience in qualitative research / semi-structured interviews, for a mixed methods project. ➡️adrien.fabre@cnrs.fr
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Le médialab recrute un·e chargé·e de projet pour développer et animer un réseau d’ingénieur·e·s au sein de @SciencesPo et @univ_paris_cite Candidatez avant le 31/08 pour rejoindre l’équipe du projet Résin ; toutes les infos sur https://t.co/AHVfQ3PVeA
medialab.sciencespo.fr
Le médialab recrute un ou une chargé·e de projet pour développer et animer un réseau d’ingénieur·e·s au sein de Sciences Po et de l’université Paris Cité, autour du partage de méthodes et d’actions...
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There's a big disconnect between popular beliefs about the prevalence and impact of online fake news and what the scientific research shows. I explore this and related issues in this new post 👇 https://t.co/sa8cOjER5c
conspicuouscognition.com
Contrary to conventional wisdom, online fake news is rare and mainly consumed by a minority of social media users with pre-existing fringe views.
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Struck by how much this new piece I've written on the Black Death combines so many of my interests. Infectious diseases, mortality statistics, research methods, and history of science. ̶C̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶o̶o̶n̶ Here it is:
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Reports suggest that between 40 and 60 percent of the population died during the bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s. What accounts for this wide range of estimates?
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In episode 457, I talk with Dr. Michael Strevens about his fantastic book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science. #Philosophy #Science Full interview: https://t.co/sbJzikqmbl
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Brown has a faculty search, and the cool part of it is that they are looking for people who work on "collective cognition and behavior." This is the first time, as far as I know, that collective psychology is a focus of a search! May there be more. https://t.co/g2XpSgWCYx
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Our new paper on what works in climate policy now out in @ScienceMagazine: "Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades" @ClimateMetrics @UVicSocialSci @PIK_Climate @INETOxford
science.org
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary scale. We provide a global, systematic ex post...
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