Social sciences and humanities

Courses and internship opportunities in social sciences and humanities

First-year courses:

S1: Human behavior, cultures, and societies, by N. Baumard & JB André
S2: Methods in cultural evolution, by O. Morin
S2: Causal statistics for treatment models, by M. Gurgand

Second-year courses:

Education & cognition, by E. Pasquinelli & F. Ramus
Behavioral public policy, by M. Perona
Science: curiosity, communication, and trust, by H. Mercier
Social cognition, by J.-B. André

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
Changing climate, changing behaviors, Department of Biology

External course:

Advanced introduction to computational social sciences, by C. Roth - EHESS (in french)

List of researchers for potential internship opportunities in social sciences, in France

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