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.
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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Making Culture Transparent
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Seminar
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 11 March 2025
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Fiery Cushman
Détails
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DNA and the Post-Neolithic Rise of Patrilineal Systems in Humans
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 4 March 2025
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Raphaëlle Chaix
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Nonviolent repression in electoral autocracies
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 17 December 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Katerina Tertytchnaya
Détails
Past
To be announced
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 10 December 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser James Holland Jones
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Mobilization and Intra-Party Power Sharing: Theory and Evidence from Norway
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 3 December 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Giovanna Invernizzi
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Image Preferences as a Driver of Normative Polarization
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 26 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Détails
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A recommender network perspective on the informational value of critics and crowds
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Seminar
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 12 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE building)
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Speaker or organiser Pantelis Analytis
Détails
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When Partisans Elect Opposition Candidates
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Seminar
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 5 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser George Ofosu
Détails
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Economics vs. Extorsionary Regulation: The Birth of Price Theory in Medieval Languedoc (1295)
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Seminar
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 18 October 2024
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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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The ontogeny of human ingenuity: Exploring the factors that promote problem-solving and innovation in childhood
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Seminar
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 8 October 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Emily Burdett
Détails
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The Road to Rebellion: State-Building and Rural Uprisings in the Run-Up to the French Revolution
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Seminar
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 27 September 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Victor Gay
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The Social Mind at Scale
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Seminar
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 24 September 2024
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Josh Jackson
Détails
Contact
Jean-François Bonnefon
Department Chair
Jonathan Stieglitz
Scientific Deputy Director
Kristin Michelitch
Teaching Deputy Director
Last news
Économie du désordre mondial (Economy of Global Disorder) : A Best-Seller That Fuels Public Debate
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