Postdoctoral Associate SL1

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in advanced quantitative analytic skills (e.g., structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling).
• Expertise in cognitive theory and experimentation about mental time travel, social remembering, and memory for news and social media.
• Manuscript preparation.
• A strong record of research on topics such as social identity threat, social inequalities in academic contexts and stress and coping.
• Experience conducting survey and behavioral research with experimental or correlational designs.
• Strong statistical analysis skills.
• Strong organizational skills (e.g., collection and management of large datasets) and experience with preparation of empirical manuscripts.

Soft skills to be determined at time of interview:

• Excellent interpersonal and time management skills
• Comfort managing multiple projects and time deadlines simultaneously

Brief Description:
The Postdoctoral Associate will work at the intersection of social and personality psychology and cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on research related to social identity processes, stress and coping, and academic and social engagement of underrepresented groups, social remembering, mental time travel and memory for news and social media. The Postdoctoral Associate will contribute to several ongoing, grant-funded, longitudinal research projects on underrepresented students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) domains and on the cognitive nature of mental time travel, social remembering, and memory for news and social media. There will be opportunities to collaborate with scholars across the University and create novel contributions to the ongoing studies, and to participate in grant writing and research coordination activities.

The Postdoctoral Associate will also have the opportunity to design and implement new survey, experimental, and longitudinal studies on basic social identity processes related to relationship development and quality, stress and coping, and academic achievement and on the cognitive nature of mental time travel, social remembering, and memory for news and social media. The Postdoc will have access to the department’s research participant pool for studies, and office and research lab spaces within the University. The Postdoc will also have the opportunity to recruit and mentor undergraduate research assistants, and collaborate with masters and doctoral level students in the department.

Anticipated starting date: will consider starting dates from May through September

Essential Duties:

• Analyzing longitudinal, repeated measures data and experimental data.
• Manuscript preparation and submission.
• Designing and implementing new survey, experimental, and longitudinal studies.
• Assisting with management of existing research grants and lab coordination activities.
• Supervising research staff.
• Other duties or projects as assigned.

Special Notes:|
This is a full-time appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

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