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Teaching

(Courses, guest lectures & others.)

Instructor

Spring 2023-2024

Cultural Evolution (36 hours).

Teaching Assistant to Olivier Morin.

Cognitive Science Master of Ecole normale supérieure-PSL.

Fall 2023-2024

Psychology of fiction (30 hours)

Second-year undergraduate program ‘Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures’ PSL.

Click here to read the syllabus.

Spring 2022-2023

 

Cognitive sciences of fiction and the arts (24 hours)

Third-year undergraduate program ‘Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures’ PSL (with Ondine Simonot).

 

Fall 2022-2023

 

Data science and pop culture (16 hours)

PSL week, intensive course (with Valentin Thouzeau and Nicolas Baumard).

Guest lectures

"The Cultural Evolution of Fiction: Theory and Methods". 9 May 2024. Course 'Cultural Analytics'. (Undergraduate students, University of Trento, Italy).

"Theory and statistics in the study of fiction". 28 September 2023. Course 'Statistiques'. (Undergraduate students, program ‘Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures’, Louis-Le-Grand, PSL).

 

"The cultural evolution of imaginary worlds: theory-driven cultural analytics". 16 May 2023. Course 'Cultural Analytics'. (Undergraduate students, University of Trento, Italy).

 

"Environment, personality, and culture". 27 April 2023. Course 'Integrative Anthropology'. (Undergraduate students, Sustainability sciences, PSL).

 

"Preferences for fiction and adaptive plasticity". 17 November 2022. Course 'Adaptive plasticity and social change in the 21st century'. (Graduate students, Master in Cognitive Sciences, École Normale Supérieure-PSL).

 

"From cognitive domains to cultural artefacts". 15 November 2022. Course ‘Evolutionary cognitive sciences’. (Undergraduate students, program 'Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures' PSL).

 

"Introductory session on the psychology of fiction". 13 June 2022. Département d’études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure-PSL. (Secondary school students).

 

"Fiction interpretation and the relevance framework". 14 April 2022. Course 'Art and Cognitive Science'. (Undergraduate students, program ‘Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures’ PSL).

 

"Preference for fictions and adaptive variability: the case of imaginary worlds". 7 April 2022. Course 'Art and Cognitive Science'. (Undergraduate students, program 'Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’études supérieures' PSL).

 

"Preferences for fiction and adaptive plasticity". 23 March 2022. Course 'Adaptive plasticity and social change in the 21stcentury'. (Graduate students, Master in Cognitive Sciences, École Normale Supérieure-PSL).

"Why Imaginary Worlds". 26 February 2022. Seminar ‘Nos Recherches' (Séminaire étudiant). École Normale Supérieure-PSL.

 

"Introductory session on the evolutionary psychology of fictions". 14 February 2022. Département d’études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure-PSL. (Secondary school students).

 

"Introductory session on the evolutionary psychology of fictions". 13 December 2021. Département d’études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure-PSL. (Secondary school students).

 

"An adaptive framework to study human emotions". 31 March 2021. French Brain Awareness Week. With Lyes Kaci. (Highschool students).

Others

2021-2022

 

Research seminar on the cognitive psychology of fictions (with Valentin Thouzeau). Weekly session of 2 hours (10 weeks).

 

2021-2022

  

Tutoring Program for students from underprivileged highschools 

Introduction to evolutionary biology, neurobiology, and psychology. Bi-monthly session of 2 hours.

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