Publications of Benoît De Courson

De Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2025). Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292, 20242071. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2071

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., Johnson, E. A., Johnson, M. T., & Pickett, K. E. (2024). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration. doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Radkani , S., Holton, E., De Courson, B., Saxe, R., & Nettle, D. (2023). Desperation and inequality increase stealing: evidence from experimental microsocieties. Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), 221385. doi:10.1098/rsos.221385

De Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2023). Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, 20222095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2095

De Courson, B., Azoulay, B., De Courson, C., Vanni, L., & Brunet, É. (2023). Gallicagram: les archives de presse sous les rotatives de la statistique textuelle. Corpus, 24. doi:10.4000/corpus.7944

De Courson, B., Fitouchi, L., Bouchaud, J. P., & Benzaquen, M. (2021). Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable. Scientific Reports, 11, 16566 (2021). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95914-7

De Courson, B., & Nettle, D. (2021). Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust? Scientific Reports, 11, 1937 (2021). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-80897-8

Pfänder, J., De Courson, B., & Mercier, H. (2024). How wise is the crowd: Can we infer people are accurate and competent merely because they agree with each other? In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3701–3707). Austin: Cognitive Science Society.

De Courson, B., Richard, A., & Bastin, G. (2024). Gender gaps and stereotypes in the long run. A computational approach to how Le Monde got (slightly) demasculinized (1944-2024). SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/j7ydu

De Courson, B. (2024). LRFAF: une exploration numérique du rap français depuis les années 1990. SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/d96tr

Acerbi, A., & De Courson, B. (2023). Weak content preferences stabilise culture. OSF Preprints. doi:10.31219/osf.io/7z4ws