Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the natural continuation and consolidation of TSE’s initiative to create conditions to promote interdisciplinary research, instigated in 2011 by Nobel Prize laureate Jean Tirole through the creation of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
The Department is the academic home both for economists – in behavioral economics, cultural economics, economic history, law and economics, and political economy – and for scholars in other social and behavioral sciences, such as evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary biology, history, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.
The aim is to foster groundbreaking interdisciplinary research, not only between economics and other disciplines, but also between other disciplines.
The Department will also develop multi-disciplinary teaching programmes.
In sum, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences provides a unique environment to push the frontiers of economics and several other disciplines within the unified scientific project on which IAST was built, namely to study the behavior of human beings as evolved biological organisms who live in groups, form networks and coalitions, are governed by formal institutions, informal norms, and religious and cultural practices, produce and exchange scarce resources and are inspired by ideals and beliefs.
The Department will keep close ties with IAST, notably through joint seminar series, and also through IAST’s Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow programs.
Job Opportunities
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) regularly offers jobs for Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines.
Faculty and Research Fellows
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Alexandros Gelastopoulos
Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants
IAST Research Fellow, PhD in Mathematics
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Ludovic Maisonneuve
Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants
IAST Research Fellow, PhD in Evolutionary Biology
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Summer School 2026
The Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences at Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) offers an interdisciplinary program in the social and behavioral sciences. The summer school is open to PhD students in economics and other disciplines.
Seminars and Conferences
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Heretics as Scapegoats: Theory with References to Medieval Languedoc. A Rational-Choice Strategic Diagnosis
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 2 October 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (first floor - TSE building)
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Speaker or organiser Jean-Paul Azam
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Effect of ovarian steroid hormones on women’s sociality across ovulatory cycle
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 2 October 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Sojung Baek
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The Paradox of Modern Love: Why Romantic Signals Decline in Developed Societies
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 29 September 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Nicolas Baumard
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Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of the Highly-Skilled, Scholars, and Professionals
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 22 September 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Max Plank Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Culture and Ecology,)
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Technology, Institutions, and Economic Inequality: New Evidence from the Very Long Run
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 15 September 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Mattia Fochesato
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Decisive but Rigid: How Tsimane Children Build Consensus in Networks
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 30 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California)
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Divided We Act: The Role of Social Sanctions in a Polarized World
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 23 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Silvia Sonderegger
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An intermediate representational framework to foster interdisciplinary communication: Discussing a future research line
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 19 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Jesse Fenneman
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The cultural ecology of social media
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 16 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Alberto Acerbi
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State-building and the Social Contract in Dual Polities
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 12 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Kevin Grieco
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What people learn from punishment
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 9 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Rebecca Saxe
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Punishment in relational context: evidence from 60 societies
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 5 June 2026
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Place Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Catherine Molho
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Jean-François Bonnefon
Department Chair
Jonathan Stieglitz
Scientific Deputy Director
Kristin Michelitch
Teaching Deputy Director
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