PhD Candidate in Communication Science on Synthetic Content, Adolescents, and Epistemic Uncertainty University of Amsterdam in Netherlands

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the project “Agents of doubt: A novel framework for understanding the impact of synthetic content on adolescents’ knowledge formation.” The project focuses on adolescents , AI-generated/synthetic content , mis/disinformation , science communication , and how young people form knowledge, experience epistemic uncertainty, and develop epistemic agency in a media environment shaped by synthetic text, audio, images, and video. The PhD researchers will...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on the effects of incorporating emotion-sensitive AI into politics and policymaking. This opening is part of the interdisciplinary A.I. Feels project, which examines how emotion-sensitive AI chatbots used by politicians and civil servants may shape policymaking and democracy. The PhD researcher will work on sub-project 1, focusing on how emotions are expressed in chatbot outputs generated in response to prompts relevant to policymakers. The project sit...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is advertising a postdoc in Sociology on de-escalating aggressive encounters between frontline workers and citizens. The project asks when and why aggression and violence against frontline workers occur, and aims to improve understanding and prevention of violence in frontline professions. The postdoc will work in the Department of Sociology and contribute to the ORC-NWA consortium project “De-escalating Aggressive Encounters between Frontline Workers and Citizens.” ...

Postdoctoral researcher position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the impostor phenomenon . This is a research opening in psychology, with possible relevance to social psychology and wellbeing/organizational research. The post was shared by Jessica de Bloom (Aletta Jacobs chair at the University of Groningen), who is reposting a vacancy from a former colleague rather than announcing her own opening. No funding details, deadline, or eligibility requirements are included in the LinkedIn ...

Dr. Chelly Maes at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is recruiting 3 fully funded PhD researchers for GENSCOPE , an ERC-funded project on digital media, gender beliefs, body image, sexuality development, adolescent development, mental health, and well-being . The project examines how adolescents navigate conflicting gender narratives across social media, television, and video games , and how these experiences shape beliefs, identity, and well-being. The three PhD projects will focus on: (1...