Post-doctoral Fellow

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Amine Sijilmassi is a Post-doctoral Fellow at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

He is researcher in cognitive sciences, previously affiliated with the Institut Jean Nicod at the École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, and Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the cognitive foundations of large-scale cooperation and group identity, particularly examining why humans commit to abstract entities such as nations and how such affiliations shape social behavior.

Sijilmassi’s doctoral thesis, titled “Imagined Nations: The Cognitive Foundations of Nationalist Ideology”, investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying nationalism and collective identity, drawing on evolutionary theory, social psychology, and experimental methods. He co-authored “Coalitional Psychology and the Evolution of Nationalistic Cultures”, which explores the cognitive and evolutionary underpinnings of nationalistic cultures.

His interdisciplinary approach combines cognitive science, evolutionary theory, and social psychology to better understand large-scale cooperation, collective identity, and the dynamics of abstract group loyalty.