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The Goldin-Meadow Laboratory and the Environmental Neuroscience Lab (PI: Marc Berman) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago are seeking a postdoctoral researcher beginning in the Fall of 2021 (start date is flexible). The postdoctoral researcher will join a team investigating how action and gesture instruction differentially affect children’s ability to learn, generalize, and retain information related to a math lesson using different neuroimaging modalities, i.e., fMRI and fNIRS. The postdoctoral researcher will be applying cutting edge analysis and modeling techniques to the data, which involve multivariate analysis, network analysis, non-linear dynamics measures and classification techniques that the ENL applies to their data regularly. The postdoctoral researcher will also have the opportunity to be involved in other projects in the labs, including behavioral analyses of gesture and working with large datasets such as the ABCD adolescent neuroimaging...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago seeks a postdoctoral researcher to design and implement research projects to test the effectiveness of teaching methods that incorporate gesture or spatial highlighting tools for math learning in hearing and deaf children and adults from diverse backgrounds. The research also includes the development and testing of an online tool that incorporates gesture for teaching mathematics. The postdoctoral researcher will work with the institutional principal investigator, Susan Goldin-Meadow from University of Chicago and co-principal investigators Ruth Church (Northeastern Illinois University), Nicole McNeil (University of Notre Dame), Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University), Ryan Lepic (Gallaudet University), and David Simkins (Rochester Institute of Technology). The postdoctoral researcher will participate in all aspects of research management, development, and implementation. He/she will oversee design, data collection,...

Description: Dr. Sarah Schnitker at Baylor University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. The post-holder will work on a variety of projects across five main areas of emphasis: understanding the mechanisms of virtues, virtue and religious development, virtue development in sport, virtues and technology, and religion and virtuous intergroup engagement. The post-holder will hold a leadership position for a major research initiative focused on spiritual/religious, moral, and psychological developmental factors that promote thriving in adolescents (“Character Strength Interventions in Adolescents: Engaging Scholars and Practitioners to Promote Virtue Development,” $2.6 million, John Templeton Foundation). This one-year, temporary position begins June 1, 2021, with strong potential for extension.  We will begin to review applications on April 26, 2021. Responsibilities: Under the supervision of Dr....

The University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security ( ARLIS ) seeks to hire a postdoctoral research associate to work on projects studying spread, impact, and countering of misleading and harmful information. This research supports ARLIS’s larger program in Cognitive Security, which encompasses online and offline influence — and protection from influence — of people ranging from individuals to large societies. Current studies cover topics including differential spread of   COVID -19 falsehoods among US language communities, and the use of crowdsourcing platforms to detect and measure impacts of adversarial messaging campaigns. The research associate is expected to help design, run, and analyze human subjects experiments on responses to misleading narratives and interventions intended to mitigate their effect, as well as analyzing data from existing datasets and media corpuses. A major goal of this position is to facilitate publication from these...

The Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Healthy Aging ( http://healthyaging.psu.edu/ ) offers Postdoctoral training through the Pathways T32 Training Program. The goal of this NIA-funded program is to train the next generation of scientists in psychosocial determinants and biological pathways that underlie healthy and unhealthy aging. All Fellows take part in a regular seminar and coursework; participate in professional development activities; and have the opportunity to take courses in innovative research methods. This program brings together faculty from Human Development and Family Studies, Biobehavioral Health, Kinesiology, and Psychology to create a comprehensive mentorship program. The resource-rich environment provided by the Center for Healthy Aging allows Fellows to be integrated into active and ongoing interdisciplinary research projects and learn advanced methods to study biopsychosocial processes in the laboratory as well as everyday life. Eligible...