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
Hani Abdel-Warith
Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants
IAST Research Fellow, PhD in Political Science
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Marielle Côté-Gendreau
Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants
IAST Research Fellow, PhD in Demography and Social Policy
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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
To be announced
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 11 December 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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IAST General Seminar
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Date 8 December 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Duncan N.E. Stibbard-Hawkes (Durham University)
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The social genome in nonhuman primates
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 1 December 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Jenny Tung (Leipzig University)
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 24 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Marina Tulin (University of Amsterdam)
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 20 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Laurenz Guenther
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The Social Cost of Corruption: How Institutions Shape Cooperation Across 34 Societies
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 17 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Giuliana Spadaro (Vrije UNiversiteit Amsterdam)
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 13 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Lucas Sage
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How Artificial Intelligence is Advancing Cognitive Science
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 10 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser William Thompson (Berkeley University)
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Different cousin marriage rules produce differences in lineage relatedness and wealth fluctuation
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 6 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Olympia Campbell
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En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 3 November 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard Business School)
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What States Teach: School Textbooks and the Making of Citizens
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IAST Lunch Seminar
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Date 9 October 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Kristin Michelitch
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The Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Evolution
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IAST General Seminar
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Date 6 October 2026
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Place Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building)
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Speaker or organiser Björn Lindström (Karolinska Institutet)
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Contact
Jean-François Bonnefon
Department Chair
Jonathan Stieglitz
Scientific Deputy Director
Kristin Michelitch
Teaching Deputy Director
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