Publications
Pre-prints
El Zein M. & Lefebvre G. Group affiliation influences information processing in collective decision-making, OSF Preprints, 2023
El Zein M., Rouault M., Wurzer D., Haggard P., Deroy O. What inclines us towards collective decisions, Registered report, Open Research Europe, 2023
Peer-reviewed journal articles
El Zein M., Mennella R. Sequestro M., Meaux E., Wyart V., Grèzes J. Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making, iScience, 2024
El Zein M., Dolan RJ, Bahrami B. Shared responsibility decreases the sense of agency in the human brain, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022
Tuncgenc B., Newson M., Sulik J., Zhao Y., Dezecache G., Deroy O., El Zein M. Social alignment matters: Following pandemic guidelines is associated with better wellbeing, BMC Public Health, 2022
Jaquiery M. & El Zein M. Stage 2 Registered Report: How responsibility attributions to self and others relate to outcome ownership in group decisions, Wellcome Open Research, 2022
Jaquiery M. & El Zein M. Stage 1 Registered Report: How responsibility attributions to self and others relate to outcome ownership in group decisions, Wellcome Open Research, 2021
Sulik J., Deroy O., Dezecache D., Newson M., Zhao Y., El Zein M.*, Tuncgenc B.*, Facing the pandemic with trust in science, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2021 *equal contribution
Newson M., Zhao Y., El Zein M., Sulik J., Dezecache G., Deroy O., Tuncgenc B., Digital Contact Does Not Promote Wellbeing, but Face-to-Face Does: A Cross-National Survey During the Covid-19 Pandemic, New Media and Society, 2021
Tuncgenc B., El Zein M., Sulik J., Newson M., Zhao Y., Dezecache G., Deroy O. Social influence matters: We follow pandemic guidelines most when our close circle does, British Journal of Psychology, 2021
Caruana N., Inkley C., El Zein M. Gaze direction biases emotion categorisation in schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 2020
El Zein M., Seikus C., De Wit L., Bahrami B. Punishing the individual or the group for norm violation, Wellcome Open Research, 2020
El Zein M. & Bahrami B. Joining a group diverts regret and responsibility away from the individual. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020
Caruana N., Inkley C, El Zein M., Seymour K. No influence of eye gaze on emotional face processing in the absence of conscious awareness, Scientific Reports, 2019
El Zein M., Bahrami B., Hertwig R. Shared responsibility in collective decisions. Nature Human Behaviour, 2019
El Zein M., Wyart V., Grèzes J. Pervasive influence of idiosyncratic associative biases during facial emotion recognition. Scientific Reports, 2018
Ioannou C., El Zein M., Wyart V., Scheid I., Amsellem F., Delorme R., Chevallier C., Grèzes J. Shared mechanism for emotion processing in adolescents with and without autism. Scientific Reports, 2017
El Zein M., Wyart V., Grèzes J., Anxiety dissociates the adaptive functions of sensory and motor response enhancements to social threats. eLife, 2015
El Zein M., Gamond L., Conty L., Grèzes J. Selective attention effects on early integration of social signals: same timing, modulated neural sources. Neuroimage, 2015
Vistoli D., Passerieux C., El Zein M., Clumeck C., Braun S., Brunet-Gouet E., Characterizing an ERP correlate of intentions understanding using a sequential comic strips paradigm. Social Neuroscience, 2015
Book chapters
El Zein M., Kirsh L., Safra L., Chapter on Social cognition in a book entitled ‘Neurosciences cognitives de l’adulte’, Boeck Superieur, October 2021
El Zein M., Chapter in ‘Advances in Neurophilosophy’. Finding feelings of responsibility in the human brain with magnetoencephalography (MEG), Bloomsbury, 2024
Articles and blog posts
Interview on the Cognitive Neuroscience Society website: Groups Decisions Less Burdensome to the Brain Than Solo Ones, 2022
Jaquiery & El Zein, How responsibility attributions to self and others relate to outcome ownership in a social context, Wellcome Open Research blog, 2022
El Zein, Gaze direction biases emotion categorisation in schizophrenia, Sci-Dip, 2021
Tunçgenç, Dezecache, Newson, El Zein, Deroy, Nous sommes plus enclins à suivre les restrictions sanitaires quand nos proches le font aussi, The conversation, 2021
El Zein, Why do we join groups? , Crowd Cognition website, 2020
Deroy & El Zein, Do Our Brains Make Us Utilitarians? In Forum: Neuroscience, Philosopher’s magazine, Issue 83, 2018
El Zein, The Adaptive Role of Moderate Anxiety in Reacting to Social Threats , Imperfect cognitions, 2016
PhD dissertation
Neural mechanisms of contextual influences during social perceptual decisions (From university Pierre et Marie Curie, in 2015).