Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control L Fitouchi, M Singh Current Opinion in Psychology, 252-257, 2022 | 74* | 2022 |
Moral disciplining: the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality L Fitouchi, JB André, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46, e293, 2023 | 68 | 2023 |
Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies L Fitouchi, M Singh Evolution and Human Behavior 44 (5), 502-514, 2023 | 56 | 2023 |
An evolutionary contractualist theory of morality JB André, L Fitouchi, S Debove, N Baumard PsyArXiv, 2022 | 51 | 2022 |
Are there really so many moral emotions? Carving morality at its functional joints L Fitouchi, JB André, N Baumard The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, 944-967, 2024 | 48 | 2024 |
Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness L Fitouchi, D Nettle Available at SSRN 4824414, 2022 | 36* | 2022 |
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: Clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions L Fitouchi, JB André, N Baumard Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 195-199, 2023 | 33 | 2023 |
Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable B de Courson, L Fitouchi, JP Bouchaud, M Benzaquen Scientific Reports 11, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
The social leverage effect: Institutions transform weak reputation effects into strong incentives for cooperation J Lie-Panis, L Fitouchi, N Baumard, JB André Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (51), e2408802121, 2024 | 10* | 2024 |
Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing. L Fitouchi, M Singh, JB André, N Baumard Psychological Review, 2025 | 8 | 2025 |
The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline L Fitouchi, JB André, N Baumard Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
The puritanical moral contract: Purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind L Fitouchi, JB André, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
The gene’s-eye view of culture N Baumard, L Fitouchi, JB André, D Nettle, T Scott-Philipps EcoEvoRxiv, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, B Thomas, C Bonard, P Boyer, M Clasen, ... | 1 | 2024 |
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions E Dubourg, L Fitouchi, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e256, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
Reciprocal contracts—not competitive acquisition—explain the moral psychology of ownership JB André, L Fitouchi, N Baumard Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 | | 2023 |