Postdoc in Social and Cognitive Psychology (ERC Project) at Ruhr University Bochum Ruhr University Bochum in Germany

PhD opportunity in Social Psychology at Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), Trier, Germany. The Social Influence Lab led by Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg is recruiting for a PhD position within the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” . The project topic focuses on negative emotions and conspiracy beliefs , making this a strong fit for applicants interested in social psychology, belief formation, emotion, and contemporary social influence processes. Applicants should have an MSc in psych...

Brandon Woo, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara , is recruiting a PhD student for his lab. The lab studies how children come to make sense of other people's actions, minds, and relationships , and how children develop a sense of social connectedness to others. This opportunity is especially relevant for students interested in psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience , and related areas of developmental research. To learn more about the position and applicatio...

University of Wroclaw is recruiting for a research-only assistant professor (post-doc) position at the Department of Management Psychology , Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences. This is an NCN OPUS 26 project postdoctoral opening focused on psychological sciences, with a strong interdisciplinary link to cognitive psychology, behavioural economics, and social psychology. The project investigates reputation management in human decision-making . Rather than treat...

Postdoctoral Researcher opening in Natural Language Processing , human behavioral evaluation , and long-range language understanding at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Saarbrücken, Germany . The position is part of the newly funded ERC Starting Grant project BrainAlign , led by Dr. Mariya Toneva and the Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group . The project aims to develop language models whose internal processing is aligned with the human brain, combining machine le...

David Levari at Brown University is recruiting a new PhD student to join his lab this cycle. The post is from an Assistant Professor and lab owner, so this is a direct opening rather than a repost. The opportunity is in Psychology , with related interests in Cognitive Science and lab-based research. Deadline: Applications are due November 15, 2026 . How to apply: Visit the lab website for more information and submit your application by the deadline. Funding: No funding details are stated in the ...