Thomas Beuchot
PhD Student
Talks & Teaching
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Conferences
Variations in human personality with resource availability: a meta-analytic review (April 2025).
Long talk, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA), Newcastle (England).
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Why does personality exist? The self-plasticity theory (November 2024).
Long talk, French network for the Evolutionary Study of Humans (FRESH), Lausanne (Switzerland).
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Variations in human personality with resource availability: a meta-analytic review (May 2024).
Blitz talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Aarhus (Danemark).
Teaching
Spring 2024-2025
Causal Statistics for Treatment Models (18 hours).
Teaching Assistant (TA) to Marc Gurgand.
Licence 3, Economics Department, École normale supérieure – PSL (Paris).
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Fall 2024-2025
Psychology and the sustainable transition (14 hours).
Instructor and course coordinator, with Mélusine Boon-Falleur & Aurore Grandin.
Licence 2, Sciences pour un Monde Durable, PSL University (Paris).​
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Fall 2024-2025
Mentoring in programming and statistics (3 hours).
Guest Instructor, with Valentin Thouzeau.
Licence 2, Sciences des données, arts et cultures, PSL University (Paris).
Invited talks & guest lectures
Why does personality exist? Evidence from genomics (October 2024).
Guest lecture, "Human behavior, Cultures, and Societies" course, ENS-PSL, Paris.
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Construire la ville ensemble (September 2023).
Interactive experience and game on psychological consequences of inequalities.
Talk, Nuit Européenne des Chercheur⸱es, Brest.
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Socio-emotional skills: how to measure them? How do they change with socio-economic status? (November 2022).
Guest lecture, "Education, Innovation, Society" seminar, EHESS, Paris.
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Personality 101 (June 2022).
Guest lecture, "Statistics" course, Sciences pour un Monde Durable, PSL University, Paris.
Other talks
​Cultural change and effective altruism (November 2024).
Talk, Automnales de l'altruisme efficace 2024, Altruisme Efficace France, Châtenay-sur-Seine.
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​10 common misconceptions about mental health (November 2024).
Workshop, Automnales de l'altruisme efficace 2024, Altruisme Efficace France, Châtenay-sur-Seine.​
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Fulfillment and Impact: How to build a career that suits you? (July 2024).
Workshop, Forum des métiers, Sciences Po Paris, Paris.
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Personality and effective altruism (November 2023).
Talk, Automnales de l'altruisme efficace 2023, Altruisme Efficace France, Mandres-les-Roses.
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Cognitive Approaches To Studying Culture (October 2023).
Interview with Olivier Morin, researcher in cultural evolution at the Institut Jean Nicod.
Interview, Cognitations.