Publications

2025

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

 

Borredon, Q.*, Bulamac, Z.*, Crozat, C.*, Dayre, E.*, Fuchs, E.*, Hallo, M.*, Kerzreho, L.*, Lavagne d’Ortigue, P.*, Lellouche, T.*, Samani, H.*, Penel, S.*, Ryszefld, N.*, Sandhu, T.*, Timsit, A.*, Yrjö-Koskinen, J.*, Morin, O. †, Dubourg, E. †. (2025). Did teddy bears culturally evolve to be cuter? A preregistered replication. Journal of Cognition and Culture.

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2024​

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Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2024). Does Curiosity Adaptively Vary With Ecological Contexts? A Correlational Study With Socioeconomic Status. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

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Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., Baumard, N. (2024). A Step-By-Step Method for Cultural Annotation by LLMs. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Research topic 'Machine Learning Applications for Digital Humanities'.

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Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., Baumard, N. (2024). The psychological origins of science fiction. Poetics.

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2023

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Dubourg, E., Mogoutov, A., Baumard, N. (2023). Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation. CEUR Proceedings of Computational Humanities Research Conference.

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Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2023). Do fictions impact beliefs? A critical view. Handbook of Fiction and Belief. Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo & Françoise Lavocat.

 

Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., de Dampierre, C., Mogoutov, A., Baumard, N. (2023). Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories. Scientific Reports.

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2022

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Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2022). Imaginary Worlds through the Evolutionary Lens: Ultimate Functions, Proximate Mechanisms, Cultural Distribution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Response to commentaries]

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Dubourg, E.*, Fitouchi, L.*, Baumard, N. (2022). When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on ‘Tradition and Invention: The Bifocal Stance Theory of Cultural Evolution’ by Jagiello et al.]

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Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2022). Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Target Article]

 

Dubourg, E., Baumard, N. (2022). Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology. 

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2021

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Dubourg, E.*, André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2021). The Evolution of Music: One Trait, Many Ultimate-Level Explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on ‘Origins of music in credible signaling’ by Mehr et al.]

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Dubourg, E. (2021). Les mondes imaginaires dans les fictions [Imaginary worlds in fictions]. Acta Fabula. [Commentary on Constellation. Des mondes fictionnels dans l’imaginaire contemporain, by Anne Besson]

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Dubourg, E., André, J.-B., Baumard, N. (2021). L’origine des fictions : l’hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales [The Origin of Fiction: The Social Evolutionary Functions Hypothesis]. Fabula LHT.

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2020

 

Dubourg, E. (2020). La Reconnaissance intuitive des fictions [The intuitive recognition of fiction]. XXI-XX, Reconnaissance littéraire, Classique Garnier.

 

Dubourg, E. (2020). La Conquête de la fiction [The conquest of fiction]. Romanesques, Classique Garnier.

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Dubourg, E. (2019). Axiologies du romanesque [Axiologies of the ‘romanesque’]. Acta Fabula. [Commentary on Les Valeurs dans le roman. Conditions d’une ‘poéthique’ romanesque]

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* Co-first author