PUBLICATIONS
Book
Chevallier, C. & Perona, M. (2022) Homo Sapiens dans la cité : Comment adapter l'action publique à la psychologie humaine, Odile Jacob, Paris.
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Archives, prepublications, working papers
Baudouin, N., De Rouilhan, S., Huillery, E., Pasquinelli, E., Chevallier, C.*, Mercier, H.* Interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.
Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., de Courson, B., Johnson, E.A., Johnson, M.T., Pickett, K.A. Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: The Changing Cost of Living Study. PsyArXiv. pdf
Huillery, E.*, Bouguen, A.*, Charpentier, A., Algan, Y., and Chevallier, C. The Role of Mindset in Education : A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools. SocArXiv pdf
Carbuccia, L., Thouzeau, V., Barone, C., & Chevallier, C. Unequal access to early childcare: What role do cognitive and behavioral factors play? A PRISMA systematic review. PsyArXiv. pdf
Mus, M., De Rouilhan, S., Chevallier, C.*, Mercier, H.* Misperceptions about policy responses to the energy crisis influence their acceptability. PsyArXiv. pdf.
Publications
Abdel Sater, R., Perona, M., Huillery, E., & Chevallier, C. (in press) The effectiveness of personalised versus generic information in changing behaviour: Evidence from an indoor air quality experiment SocArXiv. pdf
Bouton, S., Chevallier, C., Hallimat Cissé, A., Heude, B. & Jacquet, P. (2024) Is language development related to patterns of body growth? Developmental Science.
Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2023) Cognitive fossils: Using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. pdf
Mus, M., Mercier, H.*, Chevallier, C.* (2023) Designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: the role of mental accounting. Plos Climate. pdf
Abdel Sater, R., Mus, M., Wyart, V., & Chevallier, C. (2023) A zero-cost attention-based approach to promote cleaner streets. PloS One. pdf
Thouzeau, V., Bollée, J., Cristia, A.*, Chevallier, C.* (2023) Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: what conclusions can be drawn? Evolution and Human Behavior. pdf
Boon-Falleur, M., Dormont, B., & Chevallier, C. (2022) Does higher perceived risk of morbidity and mortality decrease risk-taking. Royal Society Open Science. pdf
Boon-Falleur, M., Grandin, A., Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2022) Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation. Nature climate change. pdf
Safra, L, Lettinga, N., Jacquet, P.O., Chevallier, C. (2022) Variability in repeated economic games: comparing Trust game decisions to other social trust measures. Royal Society Open Science. pdf
Grandin, A., Boon-Falleur, M., & Chevallier, C. (2022) The belief-action gap in environmental psychology: How wide? How irrational? In Musolino, J., Hemmer, P. & Sommer, J. (Eds.) The Science of Beliefs. Cambridge University Press. pdf
Boon-Falleur, M., Bouguen, A., Charpentier, A., Algan, Y., Huillery, E., & Chevallier, C. (2022) Measuring non-cognitive skills in schools: simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks. Scientific Report pdf
Grandin, A., Guillou, L., Abdel Sater, R., Foucault, M., & Chevallier, C. (2022) Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism, Journal of Environmental Psychology. pdf
Altay, S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C.*, & Mercier, H.* (2021) Information Delivered by a Chatbot Has a Positive Impact on COVID-19 Vaccines Attitudes and Intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. pdf
Chevallier, C. (2021) Vivre dans un environnement risqué : quels impacts pour la psychologie ? Sociétés en danger (dir. Claudia Senik), La Découverte.
Guillou, L., Grandin, A., & Chevallier, C. (2021). Correcting misperceptions of relative income: impact on temporal discounting and social trust, Royal Society Open Science. pdf
Safra, L., Sijilmassi, A., & Chevallier, C. (2021). Disease, perceived infectability and threat reactivity: A COVID-19 study. Personality and individual differences, 180, 110945. pdf
Lettinga, N., Algan, Y., Jacquet, P.O.*, Chevallier, C.* (2021). Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games. Evolutionary Human Sciences. pdf
Chevallier, C., Hacquin, A-S., & Mercier, H. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Shortening the last mile. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. pdf
Mell, H.*, Safra, L.*, Demange, P., Algan, Y., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. (2021) Early life adversity is associated with diminished social trust in adults. Political Psychology pdf
Jacquet, P. O.*, Pazhoohi, F.*, Findling, C., Mell, H., Chevallier, C., & Baumard, N. (2021) Predictive multivariate modelling of religiosity in 295 000 individuals from WEIRD and non-WEIRD populations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications pdf
Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L., Flake, J. K., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., ... Chevallier, C., ..., & Babinčák, P. (2020) Social perception of faces around the world: How well does the valence-dominance model generalize across world regions? Nature Human Behaviour pdf
Lettinga, N.*, Jacquet, P.O.*, Andre, J-B., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. (2020) Environmental harshness is associated with lower investment in collective actions. PloS One pdf
Safra, L., Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J., & Baumard, N. (2020) Tracking the rise of trust in history using machine learning and paintings. Nature Communications
Safra, L., Baumard, N., Wyart, V., & Chevallier, C. (2020). Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks. PloS One, 15(4), e0230011. pdf
Jacquet, P.O., 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. Registered Report Royal Society Open Science. pdf
Safra, L., Chevallier, C., & Palminteri, S. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. PLoS computational biology, 15(7), e1007224. pdf
Chevallier, C. (2019) Theory of mind and autism: Revisiting Baron-Cohen et al.’s Sally-Anne study. In A. Slater and P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies 2nd edition, Sage, 148-163. pdf
Palminteri, S., & Chevallier, C. (2018). Can we infer inter-individual differences in risk-taking from behavioural tasks? Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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(1), 1-8. pdf
Safra, L., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. (2018). No strong evidence that authoritarian attitudes are driven by a lack of control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(6), E1076-E1077. (comment letter on Kakkar, H. & Sivanathan, N.) pdf
Baumard, N., Chevallier, C., & André, J. B. (2018). Fairness, more than any other cognitive mechanism, is what explains the content of folk-economic beliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41. (comment on Boyer, P. & Bang Petersen, M.)
Safra, L., Ioannou, C., Amsellem, F., Delorme, R., & Chevallier, C. (2018). Distinct effects of social motivation on face evaluations in adolescents with and without autism. Scientific reports, 8(1), 10648 pdf
Sheskin, M., Chevallier, C., Adachi, K., Berniūnas, R., Castelain, T., Hulín, M., ... & Baumard, N. (2018). The Needs of the Many Do Not Outweigh the Needs of the Few: The Limits of Individual Sacrifice across Diverse Cultures. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18(1-2), 205-223. pdf
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. pdf
Chevallier, C. (2017). Evolutionary approaches to deprivation transform the ethics of policy making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. (comment on target article by Pepper, G. & Nettle, D.). pdf
Ioannou, C., El Zein, M., Wyart, V., Scheid, I., Amsellem, F., Delorme, R., Chevallier, C. & Grèzes, J. (2017). Shared mechanism for emotion processing in adolescents with and without autism. Scientific reports, 7, 42696. pdf
Chevallier, C., Tonge, N., Safra, L., Kahn, D., Kohls, G., Miller, J., et Schultz, R.T. (2016) Measuring Social Motivation Using Signal Detection and Reward Responsiveness. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167024. pdf
Safra, L., Tecu, T., Lambert, S., Sheskin, M., Baumard, N., Chevallier, C. (2016). Neighborhood Deprivation Negatively Impacts Children’s Prosocial Behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1760 pdf
Jacquet, P. O., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. (2016). Does culture get embrained? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(21), E2873. pdf
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. pdf
Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C., (2015). The nature and dynamics of world religions: A life history approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282(1818). pdf
Chevallier, C., Parish‐Morris, J., McVey, A., Rump, K. M., Sasson, N. J., Herrington, J. D., & Schultz, R. T. (2015). Measuring social attention and motivation in autism spectrum disorder using eye‐tracking: Stimulus type matters. Autism Research, 8(5), 620-628. pdf rawdata
Carré, A., Chevallier, C., Robel, L., Barry, C., Maria, A. S., Pouga, L., ... & Berthoz, S. (2015). Tracking Social Motivation Systems Deficits: The Affective Neuroscience View of Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3351-3363. pdf
Molesworth, C., Chevallier, C., Happé, F., & Hampton, J. A. (2015). Children with autism do not show sequence effects with auditory stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), 48. pdf
Chevallier, C., Xu, J., Adachi, K., van der Henst, J. B., & Baumard, N. (2015). Preschoolers’ Understanding of Merit in Two Asian Societies. PloS one, 10(5). pdf rawdata
Sheskin, M., Chevallier, C., Lambert, S., & Baumard, N. (2014). Life-history theory explains childhood moral development. Trends in cognitive sciences, 18(12), 613-615. pdf
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), 5974-5983. pdf
Chevallier, C., Parish-Morris, J., Tonge, N., Le, L., Miller, J. & Schultz R.T. (2014) Susceptibility to the audience effect explains performance gap between children with and without autism in a Theory of Mind task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.143(3):972-9. doi: 10.1037/a0035483 pdf
Chevallier, C., Huguet, P., Happé, F., George, N., & Conty, L. (2013) Salient social cues are prioritized in Autism Spectrum Disorders despite overall decrease in social attention. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 43, 1642–1651. pdf
Parish-Morris, J.*, Chevallier, C.*, Tonge, N., Letzen, J., Pandey, J. & Schultz, R.T. (2013). Visual attention to dynamic faces and objects is linked to face processing skills: A combined study of children with autism and controls. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 4(185). pdf
Chevallier, C. (2013) 'Theory of mind' In F. Volkmar, R. Paul and K. Pelphrey (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. pdf
Courty, A., Maria, A-S., Lalanne, C., Ringuenet, D., Vindreau, C., Chevallier, C., Pouga, L., Pinabel, F., Philippe, A., Adrien, J-L., Barry, C., Berthoz, S. (2013). Levels of autistic traits in Anorexia Nervosa: a comparative psychometric study. BMC Psychiatry, 13:222. pdf.
Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E.S., Schultz, R.T. (2012). The Social Motivation Theory of Autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(4) 231-239. pdf
Kohls, G., Chevallier, C., Troiani, V., & Schultz, R.T. (2012) Social ‘wanting’ dysfunction in autism: neurobiological underpinnings and treatment implications. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (4)10, doi:10.1186/1866-1955-4-10 pdf
Liénard, P., Chevallier, C., Mascaro, O., Kiura, P. & Baumard, N. Early Understanding of Merit in Turkana Children. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 13(1-2), 57 –66. pdf
Chevallier, C., Molesworth, C. & Happé, F. (2012). Diminished Social Motivation Negatively Impacts Reputation Management: Autism Spectrum Disorders as a Case in Point. PLoS ONE 7(1): e31107. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031107 pdf raw data
Chevallier, C., Grèzes, J., Molesworth, C., Berthoz, S. & Happé, F. (2012) Selective social anhedonia in high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 42(7),1504-9. pdf
Baumard, N., Mascaro, O., & Chevallier, C. (2012). Preschoolers are able to take merit into account when distributing goods. Developmental Psychology, 48(2) 492-498. pdf
Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2012) What goes around comes around: The evolutionary roots of the belief in immanent justice. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 12 67-80. pdf
Chevallier, C. (2012) Theory of mind and autism: Revisiting Baron-Cohen et al.’s Sally-Anne study. In A. Slater and P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies, Sage, 148-163. pdf
Chevallier, C., Noveck, I., Happé, F., & Wilson, D. (2011) What's in a voice? Prosody as a test case for the Theory of Mind account of autism. Neuropsychologia, 49(3) 507-517. pdf
Sonié, S., Behrouz, K, Pirat, E., Masson, S., Bain, P., Robinson, J., Reboul, A. Wicker, B., Chevallier, C., Beaude-Chervet, V., Deleage, MH, Charvet, D., Barthélémy, C., Rochet, T., Tatou, M., Arnaud, V., & Manificat, S. (2011). French version of Autism Spectrum Quotient, Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient [in French]. La Presse Médicale,40(4),180-188. pdf
Southgate, V.*, Chevallier, C.*, & Csibra, G. (2010) 17-month-olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others’ communication. Developmental Science, 13(6), 907–912. pdf
Chevallier, C., Wilson, D., Happé, F. & Noveck, I. (2010) Scalar inferences in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(9), 1104-1117. pdf
Chevallier, C., Bonnefond, M., Van der Henst, J-B., & Noveck, I. (2010) Using ERPs to capture prosodic stress and inference making. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 22(1),125-152. pdf
Southgate, V., Chevallier, C., & Csibra, G. (2009). Sensitivity to Communicative Relevance Tells Young Children What to Imitate. Developmental Science, 12(6),1013-9. pdf
Chevallier, C., Noveck, I., Happé, F., & Wilson, D. (2009) From acoustics to grammar: Perceiving linguistic prosody in adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 502-516. pdf
Noveck, I., Chevallier, C., Chevaux, F., Musolino, J. & Bott, L. (2009). Children’s enrichments of conjunctive sentences in context. In P. De Brabanter & M. Khissine (eds.) Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface, (20), 211-234. pdf
Chevallier, C., Noveck, I., Bott, L., Lanza, V., Nazir, T., Sperber, D. (2008). Making disjunctions exclusive. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(11), 1741-1760. pdf
Van Der Henst, J-B., Chevallier, C., Schaeken, W., Mercier, H., & Noveck, I. (2008). Dealing with indeterminacy in spatial descriptions. Psychological Research, 72 (5), 553-556.
Claidière, N., Jraissati, Y., & Chevallier, C. (2008). A colour sorting task reveals that adult colour categories are ‘truly’ perceptual and culture specific. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8(3-4), 211-233.
General audience
Monthly column for Cerveau et Psycho.
Schultz, R.T., Kohls, G., Chevallier, C. (2012). Social motivation, reward and the roots of autism. Viewpoint on SFARI
Blanc, R., Bruneau, N., Chevallier, C., Clery, H., Gomot, M., Leroy, C., Martineau, J., Meaux, E. (2011) "Le futur de l'autisme... Compte rendu du IXe Congrès international Autisme-Europe 2010", Bulletin de l'ARAPI. pdf
Baumard, N. & Chevallier, C. (2010) L'empathie : base de la vie en société ? Réponse à Franz de Waal, Sciences Humaines, Octobre 2010.
Chevallier, C., Baumard, N., Grèzes, J. & Pouga L. (2010) Comprendre les actions, émotions et états mentaux d’autrui : psychologie et neurosciences. In A. Berthoz, C. Ossola and B. Stock (Eds.), La pluralité et les fondements cognitifs de la notion de points de vue , Paris: Conférences du Collège de France.
Unpublished preprints
Hacquin, AS.*, Altay, S.*, de Araujo, E.*, Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. Sharp rise in vaccine hesitancy in a large and representative sample of the French population: reasons for vaccine hesitancy. PsyArXiv.
Hacquin, A. S., Mercier, H., & Chevallier, C. Improving preventive health behaviors in the COVID-19 crisis: a messaging intervention in a large nationally representative sample. PsyArXiv.
Safra, L., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. Why would anyone elect a narcissistic untrustworthy leader? A behavioural ecology approach. PsyArXiv
Some Scales we have translated in French:
Grit Scale:
Chevallier, C., Chambon, V., Chadwick, M., & Reeve, P. French version of the Grit scale. [validation en cours...] pdf
(Original tool: Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1087-1101.)
Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire:
Chevallier, C., Peylet, B., & Reeve, P. French version of the broad autism phenotype questionnaire. [validation en cours...] pdf
(Original tool: Hurley, Robert SE, et al. "The broad autism phenotype questionnaire." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 37.9 (2007): 1679-1690)
Autism Quotient:
Sonié, S., Behrouz, K, Pirat, E., Masson, S., Bain, P., Robinson, J., Reboul, A. Wicker, B., Chevallier, C., Beaude-Chervet, V., Deleage, MH, Charvet, D., Barthélémy, C., Rochet, T., Tatou, M., Arnaud, V., & Manificat, S. (2011). French version of Autism Spectrum Quotient, Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient [in French]. La Presse Médicale,40(4),180-188. pdf