PhD student
Presentations
(Interventions in conferences, workshops & labs.)
Conference presentations
"Is cinema becoming less and less innovative with time?" (December 2023).
Talk. Computational Humanities Research (CHR) Conference (France).
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"The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories: Further empirical developments" (June 2023).
Talk. From Evolution to Cognition to Fiction Workshop. ENS-PSL (France).
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"Leveraging the hierarchical structure of goal-directed cognition to explain the variability of gaming preferences" (May 2023).
Flash talk. Forum BrainPlay. Sorbonne Université (France).
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"Openness to experience: its evolutionary origin and its implication on symbolic culture" (April 2023).
Talk. Department of Psychology. Royal Holloway. University of London (United-Kingdom).
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"Cognitive mechanisms activated by fiction: A comprehensive framework" (April 2023).
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Talk. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference. University of London (United-Kingdom).
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"Openness to experience: its evolutionary origin and its implication on symbolic culture" (December 2022).
Flash Talk. "Evolution, Cognition & Culture" workshop. Saint-Jacut (France).
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"Cognitive mechanisms activated by fiction: A comprehensive framework" (November 2022).
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Poster. French Society for Evolutionary Human Sciences 3rd Annual Meeting. Toulouse (France).
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"A Comprehensive Framework to Study the Psychological Appeal for Narrative Fictions" (June 2022).
Talk. Workshop "From Cultural Evolution to Computational Humanities: Building a Bridge". Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jena (Germany).
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"Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds" (June 2022).
Talk. Workshop "From Cultural Evolution to Computational Humanities: Building a Bridge". Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jena (Germany).
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"Experimental evidence suggests that exploratory preferences explain the cultural distribution of fictions with imaginary worlds" (April 2022).
Poster. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference (online).
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"The cultural evolution of non-existant worlds in fictions" (March 2022).
Talk. International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (ISFFS/SIRFF)’s Second International Conference on Impossible Fictions. University of Chicago. Online.
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"The cultural evolution of imaginary worlds" (November 2021).
Talk. French Society for Evolutionary Human Sciences. Second annual meeting (online).
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"Why Imaginary Worlds? Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds in modern societies" (September 2021).
Poster. European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) Conference (online).
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"The cultural evolution of imaginary worlds in fictions" (September 2021).
Short Talk. 'Leda Cosmides and John Tooby: Honoring 40 years of innovation'. Royaumont Abbaye (France).
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"Why Imaginary Worlds? Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds in modern societies" (June 2021).
Poster (Poster Award finalist) & Flash Talk. Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference (online).
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"Why Imaginary Worlds? Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds in modern societies" (June 2021).
Poster. Culture Conference (online).
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"Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of fictions with imaginary worlds" (March 2021).
Poster. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference. (online).
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"The cultural evolution of imaginary worlds" (March 2021).
Short Talk. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference. (online).
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"Why Fiction? An evolutionary and cognitive approach" (November 2020).
Talk. Workshop "Debating Fictions". UNIL (Lausanne) and Sorbonne Nouvelle (France).
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"L’évolution culturelle de la comédie au cinema" (March 2020).
Talk. Colloquium "State of the art of comedy in France", Laboratoire LASLAR. Université Caen Normandie (France).
Invited talks
"A Step-By-Step Method for Cultural Annotation by LLMs" (November 2023).
3-hour Workshop. With Valentin Thouzeau. FRESH conference.
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"The role of cognitive mechanisms in the cultural evolution of fictional stories" (May 2023).
Talk. Early-career Social Learning Research Seminar Series (online).
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"Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens" (February 2023).
Talk. Workshop 'Exploring the Mind's Canvas'. Learning Planet Institute. Paris (France).
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"What fictions do people like at different ages? Predictions from evolutionary developmental psychology" (March 2022).
Talk. Cognitive Development Center Seminar. Central European University (online).
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"Imaginary Worlds: An Ingredient for Fictional Recipes" (February 2022).
Talk with Valentin Thouzeau. Seminar of the Musée de l’Homme. Paris (France).
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"What lies behind the imagination of fictional worlds?" (December 2021).
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Talk. Seminar of the Imaginary & Morality Lab (online).
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Other
Organization of the International Workshop 'From Evolution to Cognition to Fiction' (June 2023, Paris). With Nicolas Baumard and Valentin Thouzeau.