Knowledge Across Frontiers

A unified scientific project studying human behavior

"Modern scientific approaches are becoming increasingly trans-disciplinary"

Sergey Gavrilets, Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee

"Interdisciplinary institutions that manage to do things well are a dream"

Eldar Shafir, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

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IAST Connect #14 is out !

In this issue we explain why racial inequality persists and how WWI has shaped gender roles.

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Research

Random Researcher: Bence Bago

Bence Bago is a cognitive psychologist at IAST, he works on the interplay of intuitive and analytic processes in human decision-making.

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Research

Machine Behavior

Jean François Bonnefon and a wide team of academic and industrial researchers have published a new framework article in Nature on AI behaviour

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Research

New Publication

"Friend or foe: reconciliation between males and females in wild chacma baboons", published in Animal Behaviour by Alice Baniel, Christine Webb, Guy Cowlishaw and Elise Huchard

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Research

Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology

Jean François Bonnefon, Maxime Derex and a team of American, British and French researchers have published a study in Nature Human Behaviour showing that understanding is not necessary in order to...

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Events

Conference on Cultural Evolution

Hold in Toulouse, May 23-24, Manufacture des Tabacs

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Debate

The Indian Puzzle

Focus on Jobs for women in IAST Connect: Who wins if women don't get to work?

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Coming up soon, in Toulouse or further afield

Random Researcher: Sabine Noebel
  • CNRS
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  • Labex IAM-TSE