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The University of Texas Permian Basin welcomes applications for a tenure-track faculty position in social, cognitive, or physiological psychology with an anticipated start date in August 2021.The position is tenure-track at the Assistant Professor rank. We offer a competitive salary, a new renovated and equipped psychophysiological lab space, and relocation expenses. The lab space contains two fully sound-proofed data collection rooms, each containing a 64-channel Brain Vision   EEG   system as well as 4 bipolar   EMG   leads. A separate control room houses all computer needs for data recording, data reduction, workspace for research assistants, and lab meeting space. The successful candidate is expected to maintain an active research program using electroencephalography ( EEG ) involving both undergraduate and graduate students, teach, and provide service to the department, college and university. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to seek grant support for his...

Northern Kentucky University Department of Psychological Science The Department of Psychological Science at Northern Kentucky University invites applications for a  renewable non-tenure track lecturer position beginning August 2021. A master’s or doctorate degree in psychology or related field is required by the time of appointment, specialization in life-span developmental psychology is preferred. Candidates should be strongly committed to teaching at the undergraduate level and applying rigorous scientific principles to the study of human development. The successful candidate will primarily teach undergraduate courses in Life-span Development; experience teaching other courses such as Introduction to Psychology and Research Methods is also valued. While a portion of the teaching load will be online, this is not a remote position. A presence on campus is required. The Department of Psychological Science is committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community and...

The Department of Psychological Science within the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University is hiring a full-time resident assistant professor (RAP) position to begin in the fall of 2021. Preference will be given to candidates who will have completed all work towards a Ph.D. in Psychology or a related field before August 2021. The Department of Psychological Science is an undergraduate department and the RAPs will teach four classes per semester (fall/spring). The candidates will be expected to teach courses in Introductory Psychology and Research Methods and Statistics as well as any courses among the following that are within their expertise:  Abnormal Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Learning, or Cross-Cultural Psychology.  Creighton University is a private Jesuit, Catholic coeducational urban university that encourages applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds who believe they can contribute to the distinctive...

The Mind and Society Center ( http://dornsife.usc.edu/mindandsociety ) co-directed by Professor Daphna Oyserman, at the University of Southern California, is seeking applications for a 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Associate beginning as soon as possible (two year postdoc broken into two one year segments, with opportunity for renewal at one year mark assuming excellent performance and availability of funding).  Position Description: The postdoc will work closely with Dr. Oyserman on projects funded by IES (Institute for Educational Studies) and EIR ( Education Innovation and Research), examining the consequences of an intervention to improve students identity- based motivation on their academic performance as part of the Pathways-to-Success program. The Pathways intervention has been developed so that it is deliverable by teachers who have been trained by other teachers. Our funding supports the evaluation of this train-the-trainer scaling model in urban...

www.jessicagrahn.com/postdoctoral-position.html Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada. The post is based in the Music and Neuroscience lab (headed by Jessica Grahn). The lab explores the links between music, rhythm, and movement using neuroscientific methods and various populations (e.g., healthy adults, neurological patient populations, non-human animals). The lab is committed to best practices in Equity and Diversity. The post-holder will play a key role in neuroimaging and possibly neuropsychological patient investigations of rhythm, timing, and music. A background in cognitive neuroscience or experimental psychology and expertise in fMRI, EEG, TMS/tDCS/tACS, or neuropsychological patient testing is preferred, but not required. Comfort with computer programming (e.g., Matlab, Python, R) would be helpful. No musical background is necessary. The successful applicant will enjoy working as part of an interdisciplinary...

Department Overview The Post-Doctoral Fellow will join a large collaborative team studying the development and outcome of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in multiple already-available as well as growing data sets at the Center for ADHD Research at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland Oregon. The content focus is on longitudinal data and prediction of clinical outcome, using measures of cognition, emotion, neuropsychological function, personality, clinical symptoms (psychiatric and psychological symptoms), family functioning, and psychophysiology (e.g., respiratory sinus arrhythmia). Opportunity may also be available to examine neuroimaging and genetic data for interested fellows. Portland is an attractive place to live with a high quality of life. It offers ample opportunities for outdoor recreation (ocean and cascades mountains are only about an hour away), beautiful scenery, the nation’s largest urban forest and one of the largest...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA The Cognitive and Behavioral Science Department at Washington and Lee University ( https://my.wlu.edu/cognitive-and-behavioral-science ) seeks to fill a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Cognitive psychology, beginning July 1, 2021. This position carries a 6-course teaching load distributed over Fall and Winter terms (12 weeks each), and the university’s signature 4-week Spring Term. Competitive applicants will demonstrate a commitment to undergraduate instruction and engagement of undergraduates in research. We seek candidates who can teach an introductory cognition course as well as developmental psychology and/or statistics. The successful candidate will also teach courses in their area of expertise, supervise student research, and be skilled with statistical software. To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually...