This page presents the courses and internship opportunities available in Social sciences and Humanities within the Master’s program. Together, they provide a complete disciplinary training, embedded in our interdisciplinary environment.
Courses
- Evolutionary foundations of social and cultural behavior (first year, first semester), by N. Baumard & JB André
- S2: Methods in cultural evolution (first year, second semester), by A. Bluet
- S2: Causal statistics for treatment models (first year, second semester), by M. Gurgand
- Education & cognition (second year), by E. Pasquinelli & F. Ramus
- Behavioral public policy (second year), by M. Perona
- Science: curiosity, communication, and trust (second year), by H. Mercier
- Evolution and social cognition (second year), by P. Boyer
ENS-PSL minors
Beyond their master’s degree, students interested in social sciences and humanities can complete any ENS-PSL minor of their choice, including the following:
- Public Action, in collaboration with INSP (contact: C. de La Vaissière)
- Digital Humanities
- Environment
Courses from other ENS departments
- Behavioral ecology, Department of Biology
- Evolutionary ecology, Department of Biology
External course
Advanced introduction to computational social sciences, by C. Roth - EHESS (in french)
Internship opportunities in Social sciences and Humanities, in France
This list is not exhaustive. It only includes close and recurrent collaborators of the master.
Many other internships are possible, in other disciplines (economics, sociology, anthropology, ecology, etc.) and other universities, including outside France.
You may ask nbaumard@gmail.com for further guidance
Please note: you can always find the latest updated list here.
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