2025
Fitouchi L. & Nettle, N. (2025). Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness. Cognition. [PDF]
Fitouchi L., Singh, M., André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2025). Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing. Psychological Review. [PDF]
Baumard, N., André, J.-B., Nettle, N., Fitouchi, L., Scott-Philipps, T. (in press). The gene's-eye view of culture. APA Handbook for Evolutionary Psychology. [preprint PDF]
2024
Lie-Panis, J., Fitouchi, L., Baumard, N., André, J.-B (2024). The social leverage effect: Institutions transform weak reputation effects into strong incentives for cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(51). [PDF]
Fitouchi, L., André J.-B. & Baumard, N. (2024). Are there really so many moral emotions? Carving morality at its functional joints. in Al-Shawaf, L. & Shackelford, T. K. (Eds).The Oxford Handbook for Evolution and the Emotions. Link PDF
André, J.-B., Fitouchi, L., Baumard, N. (2023). Reciprocal contracts—not competitive acquisition—explain the moral psychology of ownership. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on Boyer] Link PDF
2023
Fitouchi, L., & Singh, M. (2023). Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies. Evolution and Human Behavior. Link PDF
Fitouchi, L., André, J.-B. & Baumard, N. (2023). Moral disciplining: the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Target Article] Link PDF
Fitouchi, L., André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2023). The puritanical moral contract: purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Response to commentaries] Link PDF
2022
Fitouchi, L., & Singh, M. (2022). Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control. Current Opinion in Psychology. Link PDF
Fitouchi, L., André J.-B. & Baumard, N. (2022). From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions. Religion, Brain & Behavior [Commentary on Turchin et al.] Link PDF
Dubourg, E., Fitouchi, L. & Baumard, N. (2022). When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Commentary on Jiagello et al.] Link PDF
2021
De Courson, B., Fitouchi, L., Bouchaud, J.-P. & Benzaquen, M. (2021). Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable. Scientific reports. Link PDF
Fitouchi, L., André J.-B. & Baumard, N. (2021). The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline. Religion, Brain & Behavior. [Commentary on Glucklich] Link PDF
Singh & Fitouchi (under review). Retributive sentiments track both deterrent and compensatory concerns in a small-scale society. Preprint PDF.
André, J.-B., Fitouchi, L., Debove, S. & Baumard, N. (in revision). An evolutionary contractualist theory of morality. Preprint PDF
Dubourg, E. , Thouzeau, V., Beuchot, T., Bonard, C., Boyer, P., Clasen, M., Boon-Falleur, M., Fiorio, G., Fitouchi, L., Fisher, M., Grant, A., Hye-Knudsen, M., Katiyar, T., Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, J., Mercier, M., Mercier, H., Morin, O., Salmon, C., Scott-Phillips, T., Scrivner, C., Sijilmassi, A., Singh, M., Smith, M., Sobchuk, O., Stubbersfield, J., Varnum, M., Verpooten, J., Zhong, Y., Baumard, N. (in revision). Explaining the diversity and variability of human fiction: An evolutionary framework. Preprint PDF