Publications of Olivier Morin

Kim, Y.; Allassonnière-Tang, M.; Miton, H.; Morin, O.: The phonology of letter shapes: feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems. Journal of Memory and Language 142, 104620, pp. 1 - 13 (2025)

Sobchuk, O.; Youngblood, M.; Morin, O.: First-mover advantage in music. EPJ Data Science 13, 37 (2024)

Aguirre, M.; Brun, M.; Morin, O.; Reboul, A.; Mascaro, O.: Expectations of processing ease, informativeness, and accuracy guide toddlers’ processing of novel communicative cues. Cognitive Science: a multidisciplinary journal 47 (11), e13373, pp. 1 - 33 (2023)

Youngblood, M.; Stubbersfield, J. M.; Morin, O.; Glassman, R.; Acerbi, A.: Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10 (1), 573 (2023)

Youngblood, M.; Miton, H.; Morin, O.: Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging. Evolutionary Human Sciences 5, e10 (2023)

Morin, O.: The piecemeal evolution of writing. Lingue e linguaggio 2022 (2), 105963, pp. 217 - 237 (2022)

Pavlek, B.; Winters, J.; Morin, O.: Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital scholarship in the humanities 37 (1), fqab030, pp. 202 - 217 (2022)

Morin, O.; Müller, T. F.; Morisseau, T.; Winters, J.: Cultural evolution of precise and agreed-upon semantic conventions in a multiplayer gaming app. Cognitive Science 46 (2), e13113, pp. 1 - 26 (2022)

Kelly, P.; Winter, J.; Miton, H.; Morin, O.: The predictable evolution of letter shapes: an emergent script of West Africa recapitulates historical change in writing systems. Current Anthropology 62 (6), 717779, pp. 669 - 821 (2021)

Morin, O.; Sobchuk, O.: The shortlist effect: nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021.48, pp. 1 - 27 (2021)

Miton, H.; Morin, O.: Graphic complexity in writing systems. Cognition 214, 104771, pp. 1 - 15 (2021)

Morin, O.; Jacquet, P. O.; Vaesen, K.; Acerbi, A.: Social information use and social information waste. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 376 (1828), 2020.0052, pp. 1 - 9 (2021)

Müller, T. F.; Winters, J.; Morisseau, T.; Noveck, I.; Morin, O.: Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 33 (4), 1900199, pp. 357 - 378 (2021)

Pavlek, B.; Winters, J.; Morin, O.: Reverse engineering cash: coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically. Cognition 198 (n/a), 104182, pp. 1 - 5 (2020)

Pavlek, B.; Winters, J.; Morin, O.: Ancient coin designs encoded increasing amounts of economic information over centuries. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56, 101103, pp. 1 - 8 (2019)

Miton, H.; Morin, O.: When iconicity stands in the way of abbreviation: No Zipfian effect for figurative signals. PLoS One 14 (8), 0220793, pp. 1 - 19 (2019)

Morin, O.: Did social cognition evolve by cultural group selection? Mind & Language 34 (4), pp. 530 - 539 (2019)

Müller, T. F.; Winters, J.; Morin, O.: The influence of shared visual context on the successful emergence of conventions in a referential communication task. Cognitive Science 43 (9), e12783, pp. 1 - 29 (2019)

Morin, O.; Acerbi, A.; Sobchuk., O.: Why people die in novels: testing the ordeal simulation hypothesis. Palgrave Communications 5, 62 (2019)

Mercier, H.; Morin, O.: Majority rules: how good are we at aggregating convergent opinions? Evolutionary Human Sciences 1, e6 (2019)