Jose Segovia-Martin
Chercheur associé
Research interests
Jose Segovia-Martin is a Research Associate at the Complex Systems Institute of Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF), a research centre of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), where he also carried out his postdoctoral research. His main research interests include modelling, complex systems, social behaviour, and sustainability.
Latest Publications
Jeddi, Y., Segovia-Martin, J., & Servan-Schreiber, E. (2026). Crowdsourced versus large language models forecasting: evidence for the accuracy–correlation effect. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381(1948). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0456
Seabright, E., Alami, S., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., O’Madagain, C., Segovia-Martin, J., Smaldino, P., … & Whiten, A. (2026). The evolutionary past and future of collective intelligence: introduction to the theme issue. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381(1948). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0439
Segovia-Martin, J. (2026). Topological traps in evolutionary games. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17821. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17821
Tamariz M, Walker B, Bennett M, Segovia-Martín J, Fay N (2026) Cultural transmission of attitudes and behaviours from parents, peers and grandparents. PLoS One 21(1): e0341433. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341433
Kerssies N, Segovia-Martin J, Winters J (2025) Connect-while-in-range: Modelling the impact of spatial constraints on dynamic network structures. PLOS Complex Syst 2(7): e0000051. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000051
Segovia-Martin J, Rivero Ó (2024). Cross-border political competition. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0297731. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297731
Nichols R, Charbonneau M, … , Segovia-Martin, J. Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2024;6:e12. doi:10.1017/ehs.2024.2
Segovia-Martin, J., Creutzig, F., & Winters, J. (2023). Efficiency traps beyond the Climate Crisis: Exploration-exploitation tradeoffs and rebound effects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0405
Segovia-Martin, J. preprint 2022. Modelling the dynamics of cross-border ideological competition. ArXiv. Subjects: Dynamical Systems (math.DS). https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06010
Walker, B., Segovia-Martin, J., Tamariz, M., & Fay, N. (2021). Maintenance of prior behaviour can enhance cultural selection. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-9.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99340-7
Segovia-Martin, J., & Tamariz, M. (2021). Synchronising institutions and value systems: A model of opinion dynamics mediated by proportional representation. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257525
Segovia-Martin, J. (2021). Synchronising the emergence of institutions and value systems. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/479666vj
Segovia-Martin, J., & Tamariz, M. (2021, April 14). Synchronising institutions and value systems: a model of opinion dynamics mediated by proportional representation. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/546uy/
Segovia-Martin, J., Walker, B., Fay, N., & Tamariz, M. (2020). Network connectivity dynamics, cognitive biases and the evolution of cultural diversity in round-robin interactive micro-societies.Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12852
Segovia-Martin, J., & Tamariz, M. (2020). Testing early and late connectivity dynamics in the lab: an experiment using 4-agent micro-societies.PsyArXivhttps://psyarxiv.com/nuf78/
Seán G Roberts, Anton Killin, Angarika Deb, Catherine Sheard, Simon J Greenhill, Kaius Sinnemäki, Jose Segovia-Martin, Jonas Nölle, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Archie Humphreys-Balkwill, Hannah Little, Christopher Opie, Guillaume Jacques, Lindell Bromham, Peeter Tinits, Robert M Ross, Sean Lee, Emily Gasser, Jasmine Calladine, Matthew Spike, Stephen Francis Mann, Olena Shcherbakova, Ruth Singer, Shuya Zhang, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Christian Kliesch, Ewan Thomas-Colquhoun, Hedvig Skirgård, Monica Tamariz, Sam Passmore, Thomas Pellard, Fiona Jordan. (2020). CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database, Journal of Language Evolution lzaa001, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001
Segovia Martin, J & Balari, S. (2020). Eco-evo-devo and iterated learning: towards an integrated approach in the light of niche construction.Biology & Philosophy volume 35, Article number: 42 (2020) . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-09761-3
Segovia Martín, J., Walker, B., Fay, N., & Tamariz, M. (2019, Feb). Network connectivity dynamics affect the evolution of culturally transmitted variants. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:1902.06598 Download the pdf
Segovia Martin, J & Tamariz, M. (2018). The cultural evolution of communicative conventions: interactions between population connectivity dynamics and cognitive biases. In Cuskley, C., Flaherty, M., Little, H., McCrohon, L., Ravignani, A. & Verhoef, T. (Eds.): The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII). Download the pdf
Segovia Martín, J. (2018). Percepción del lenguaje político en Twitter. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 31(1), 282-308. Download the pdf


