Peer-reviewed articles

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Dubourg, E., Chambon, V. (2025). DEEP: A model of gaming preferences informed by the hierarchical nature of goal-oriented cognition. Entertainment Computing. (link)

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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. (link)

 

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. (link)

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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. (link)

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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. (link)

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

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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. Proceedings of Computational Humanities Research Conference. (link)

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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. (link)

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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. (link)

 

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

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Commentaries

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​Dubourg, E., Chambon, V., Baumard, N. (2025). Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on ‘A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box’ by Murayama & Jach] (link)

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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] (link)

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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.] (link)

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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.]​ (link)

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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]​ (link)

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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] (link)​

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Chapters and others

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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. (link)

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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.​ (link)

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

 

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

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* Co-first author