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The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence seeks a full-time postdoctoral research associate to join the Emotion Revolution in the Workplace research team (PIs: Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle & Dr. Marc Brackett). The primary objectives of this project are to develop and test a new measure of emotionally intelligent behavior in school leaders. Previous research has shown that leader emotionally intelligent behavior is related to employees’ emotional experiences at work, as well as their work behavior and achievement. In the present project, we seek to expend this research by developing a multidimensional measure and test the role of leader emotionally intelligent behavior for employee outcomes in educational settings. The postdoctoral associate will be responsible for scale development and data analysis, as well as for formulating new research questions for future data collections and writing research articles. The Project Director, Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle will oversee...

  About the Unit:   The Urban Education Institute (UEI) at the University of Chicago is an internationally and nationally renowned institute with the aim of promoting field-based research on youth development and learning in formal and informal settings. UEI conducts rigorous applied research, trains researchers and practitioners, operates a preK-12 public school, and provides research-based tools and resources to schools in 62 major cities across 34 states.   Position Summary:   We invite applications for two Postdoctoral Scholar positions in the area of youth development and learning across multiple ecological contexts with an emphasis on diversity, opportunity, and equity.   The initial appointment will be one year with the possibility of renewal for up to two years. The position involves work on several multi-method, large-scale longitudinal studies exploring how sociocultural and psychological factors influence youth’s identity development, academic...