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Under the supervision of Dr. Larisa Heiphetz, the lab manager will provide assistance with research in Columbia’s Social and Moral Cognition Lab. Studies in our lab focus on children’s and adults’ moral cognition, with some work investigating morality within the contexts of religion and the legal system. Additional information about our lab, including access to the lab's publications, is available here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com .  The lab manager will assist with research and perform administrative duties. Typical research responsibilities include creating stimuli, recruiting participants, collecting data, and entering/coding results. Typical administrative responsibilities include organizing and maintaining a participant database, ordering supplies, and facilitating the preparation of forms and reports (e.g., IRB documentation). Past lab managers have also presented at conferences and co-authored manuscripts based on projects where their involvement was particularly...

The Institute of Education at the University of Zurich is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher for modeling intensive longitudinal educational testing  data. The work load is negotiable and the initial appointment  will be until February 29, 2024. The position primarily involves work in the methodological research project “Modeling Developmental Trajectories with Intensive Longitudinal Data from Large-Scale Formative Assessments” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PI: Prof. Dr. Martin Tomasik). It is a full research position with no teaching obligations, but teaching contracts can be negotiated to temporarily or permanently complement a part-time employment in the project. Your Responsibilities The successful candidate will collaborate in a team comprising another post-doctoral researcher and a  PhD student. Against the backdrop of intensive longitudinal data from a computer-based tool for formative student assessment (see Tomasik, Berger &...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business seeks a recent PhD graduate (earned or expected by July 2022) for a Principal Researcher role. This Principal Researcher position is designed to support a talented behavioral scientist in generating significant research contributions to the study of social cognition, perspective taking, and intuitive human judgment. Nicholas Epley will manage the position and collaborate with the Principal Researcher.  The primary responsibilities for the Principal Researcher will be to conduct this research both independently and in collaboration with Booth Faculty in the Center for Decision Research (CDR), with particular encouragement to advance high quality, cutting-edge experimental research. Accordingly, demonstrate an outstanding capacity to generate original research questions and implement studies to investigate those questions in unique experimental settings (e.g., companies, public spaces, museums).  In addition to collaborating with...

The Department of Psychology at Colorado State University and the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging ( CHSCHA ) at Colorado State University invite applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Psychology and affiliated with  CHSCHA . This position is at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning in August 2022. The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching, clinical practice and research. We welcome candidates with a wide range of research expertise in human neuropsychology research, especially a focus on dementia and related disorders (e.g., Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia, Vascular Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, mild cognitive impairment, etc.). Candidates should be able to teach undergraduate and graduate-level coursework in neuropsychology, biological psychology, and specialty courses related to their area of research interest. They will also be expected to participate...

PSYCHOLOGY, Visiting Assistant Professor, area open, with a preference for sensation & perception or cognitive psychology. We believe the best way to learn the science of psychology is by engaging our faculty and students in a collaborative search for new knowledge about human cognition, emotion, and behavior. To this end, we have a unique curriculum that engages students in research at all levels. The successful candidate will be expected to teach with passion, to be engaged in an active and sustained program of research that contributes to the global effort to advance psychological knowledge, to involve Colby’s exceptional undergraduates in that research, and to become an active and engaged member of our academic community. We are especially interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, and/or service, will promote diversity, inclusion, and equity at Colby. Teaching responsibilities for this one-year position include introductory and advanced...

Southern Methodist University (SMU), a nationally-ranked, private, non-sectarian research institution located in one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing metropolitan areas, is seeking to establish several interdisciplinary clusters to strengthen its research mission. One of these clusters focuses on Technology Enhanced Immersive Learning (TEIL), broadly construed. In support of this effort in TEIL, Dedman College’s Department of Psychology at SMU invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in psychological science (position #06284) to begin August 2022.   Successful candidates will be investigating technology or applying technology: (1) in research examining psychological processes related to technology-enhanced instruction, learning or assessment, that has a substantial social impact, or (2) in research designed to enhance specific understanding of the development or maintenance of psychological phenomena or important social problems, or (3) in research...