This page lists the courses and internship opportunities in the social sciences and humanities available within the Master’s program. Taken together, the courses form a complete disciplinary training.
Courses
- Evolutionary foundations of social and cultural behavior (first year, first semester), by Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste André
- S2: Methods in cultural evolution (first year, second semester), by Alexandre Bluet
- S2: Causal statistics for treatment models (first year, second semester), by Marc Gurgand
- Education and cognition (second year), by Elena Pasquinelli & Franck Ramus
- Behavioral public policy (second year), by Mathieu Perona
- Science: curiosity, communication, and trust (second year), by Hugo Mercier
- Evolution and social cognition (second year), by Pascal Boyer
PSL and ENS minors
In addition to their master’s degree, students interested in social sciences and humanities can complete any PSL or ENS minor of their choice, including the following:
- Public Action, in collaboration with INSP (contact: Dyenifer Matos)
- Digital Humanities
- Environment
Courses from other ENS departments
- Behavioral ecology, Department of Biology
- Evolutionary ecology, Department of Biology
PSL courses
Courses of the PSL Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Society (IASO), each worth 3 ECTS. For further information, contact Nicolas Baumard, director of the IASO master.
- Comparative Law of Digital Regulation (first year, second semester)
- Data Quality (first year, second semester)
- Public Policy and LLMs (second year, first semester)
- Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (second year, first semester)
External course
Advanced introduction to computational social sciences, by Camille Roth - EHESS (in french)
Internship opportunities in the social sciences and humanities in France
This list is not exhaustive: it includes only close and regular collaborators of the master’s program.
Many other internships are possible, in other disciplines (economics, sociology, anthropology, ecology, etc.) and other universities, including outside France.
For further guidance, write to nbaumard@gmail.com.
The latest version of this list is always available online.
ENS-PSL
Jean-Baptiste André
Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Nicolas Baumard
Social Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Coralie Chevallier
Social Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Public Policies
INSERM, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Hugo Mercier
Social Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Public Policies, Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Olivier Morin
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Daniel Nettle
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Public Policies, Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure
Alex Cristia
Social Cognition, Public Policies
CNRS, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, École Normale Supérieure
Julie Grèzes
Social Cognition
INSERM, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure
Franck Ramus
Social Cognition, Public Policies
CNRS, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, École Normale Supérieure
Thierry Poibeau
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Laboratoire LATTICE, École Normale Supérieure
PSL
Florian Cafiero
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France
Jean-Baptiste Camps
Cultural Evolution
École Nationale des Chartes
Elise Huillery
Public Policies
Université Paris-Dauphine
Sciences Po Paris
Mélusine Boon-Falleur
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Public Policies
Sciences Po
Lou Safra
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Public Policies
Sciences Po
Université Paris-Cité
Olivier Mascaro
Social Cognition
Université Paris Cité
Marc Tang
Cultural Evolution
Université Paris Cité
Paris Saclay
Guillaume Dezecache
Social Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Public Policies
Université Paris-Saclay
Montpellier
Alexandra Alvergne
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier
Elise Huchard
Behavioral Ecology / Primatology
CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier
Michel Raymond
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier
Arnaud Tognetti
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
Université de Montpellier
Toulouse School of Economics
Ingela Alger
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Jean-François Bonnefon
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Maxime Derex
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Léo Fitouchi
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology, Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Olympia Campbell
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Zach Garfield
Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Catherine Molho
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
CNRS, Toulouse School of Economics
Aix-Marseille
Nicolas Claidière
Social Cognition, Cultural Evolution
CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille Université
Lyon
François Osiurak
Cultural Evolution
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Saint-Étienne
Katarzyna Pisanski
Evolutionary Psychology / Behavioral Ecology
Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne