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Last updated: December 20, 2024

WiCS+ offers a free service to announce job opportunities aligned with WiCS+ mission at any member affiliations. Job opportunities will be posted at the discretion of the WiCS+ Leadership Team and will be updated every week. Announcements will remain posted until the deadline date or after 3 months from date posted (whichever date comes first).

  • Open area; position begins July 1, 2025. Join a collaborative and engaging PSY Department!

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    Deadline: Feb 15, 2025

    Posted: 12.20.24

  • Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of human cognition and behavior encompassing the fields of philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science and AI, neuroscience, and anthropology. In our liberal arts program, some gaps remain in these fields, and we seek a candidate who can compliment our existing program through expertise in the field of computational study of cognition.

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    Deadline: December 20 (Fri), 2024 – March 24 (Mon), 2025 23:59 (JST) Documents Submission: December 20 (Fri), 2024 – March 31 (Mon), 2025(All application materials must arrive by Monday, March 31, 2025, 17:00 (JST)

    Posted: 12.20.24

  • The Department of Psychology at Colby College is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in cognitive psychology to begin in Fall 2025. The specific area of research interest is open. Teaching responsibilities may include introductory and advanced courses in the candidate’s area of training, participation in a team-taught introduction to psychology course, assisting with the department’s methodology and statistics offerings, and supervision of student independent research.

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    Deadline: Review of applications will begin on Feb. 3, 2025

    Posted: 12.19.24

  • The Psychology Department at the University of Michigan is seeking a Psychology Ph.D. trained in Cognitive Psychology and/or Cognitive Neuroscience to contribute to our undergraduate teaching mission. The teaching load is six courses per year, with one course release for advising, and participation in the department community through service (e.g., department committees, interviewing future lecturers). High-priority topics include Decision Making, Psychology of Thinking, Creativity, Second Language Acquisition, and Psychology of Language, although candidates specializing in other topics will be considered with opportunities to develop new courses.

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    Deadline: January. 15, 2025

    Posted: 12.17.24

  • The Division of Science at NYU Abu Dhabi is searching for accomplished individuals to join the Psychology program as a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the Cognition and Perception areas. Research strengths of the program include memory, language, visual neuroscience, cognitive development, and multisensory perception and action. We encourage applications from candidates whose research complements or enhances existing areas of expertise, particularly from women, members of historically underrepresented groups, and UAE nationals. NYUAD offers state-of-the-art, centrally-funded research facilities supported by dedicated staff, including MRI, MEG, EEG, and high-performance computing, all designed to support cross-modal research initiatives.

    We seek candidates who are not only outstanding scholars but also inspiring educators and mentors, capable of fostering intellectual growth in a diverse and vibrant research community of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral associates.

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    Deadline: February 1, 2025

    Posted: 12.13.24

  • Program Director duties include administration of the merit review and proposal recommendations, program budget administration, participation in strategic planning, preparation of public-facing materials advancing program interests, and coordination with related programs in NSF or in other agencies and organizations. Program Directors engage in extensive interaction with their academic research communities and can help shape program priorities and the development of national and international interagency collaborations.

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    Deadline: December 27, 2024 for fullest consideration

    Posted: 12.12.24

  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in any area of Cognitive Psychology (including, but not limited to, attention, decision-making, language acquisition and processing, memory, perception and reasoning). Job activities will include conducting independent research (including publishing and applying for grants), teaching (undergraduate and graduate courses), and service (such as participating in departmental committees).

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    Deadline: until filled

    Posted: 11.19.24

  • The Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Perception and Cognition. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025.

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    Deadline: 12.19.24

    Posted: 11.04.24

  • The School of Education at the University of California, Irvine is carrying out a search for a faculty member in the area of higher education.

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    Deadline: 06.30.2025

    Posted: 10.31.24

  • The Department of Psychology at Tulane University announces a tenure track position at the beginning Assistant Professor level in developmental science with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The ideal candidate will have a strong research orientation with the potential to develop a nationally visible, extramurally supported program of research. We are especially interested in scholars who conduct basic research in developmental science that emphasizes mechanisms of change over time.

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    Deadline: 11/20/24

    Posted: 10.30.24

  • Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Psychology with a starting date in August 2025, with a research focus in Cognitive or Behavioral Neuroscience.

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    Deadline: Open until filled, review start 11/18/24

    Posted: 10.25.24

  • Our department is accepting applications for Harvard College Fellows. Open to recent PhDs, these are full-time teaching-focused postdoctoral positions comprised of 75% teaching, including training in course development and pedagogy, and 25% research, with mentorship from a faculty member in the Psychology Department. We anticipate several College Fellow openings for the 2025-26 academic year; anticipated start date is July 1, 2025.

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    Deadline: Applications received by December 15, 2024 will receive full consideration.

    Posted: 10.23.24

  • We seek a Developmental Scientist with interest in Language Development, Social Development, or related fields of inquiry. Expertise in multi-method, mixed methods, lifespan, and/or biobehavioral research approaches is a strength.

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    Deadline: Open until filled

    Posted: 10.21.24

  • The Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth College invites applications for full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin as early as July 1, 2025. We seek a scholar working at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. The appointment will be in the Cognitive Science Program with close ties to the Department of Computer Science; at least one course per year will be cross-listed between the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of Computer Science. Demonstrated excellence in both research and teaching is required.

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    Deadline: until filled

    Posted: 10.07.24


  • The position is open to candidates in any area of neuroscience, broadly defined, who are committed to teaching at an undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university, and to establishing a program of research that actively engages undergraduate students.

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    Deadline: Application review will begin 11/2/2024 and continue until position is filled

    Posted: 10.07.24

  • The Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time, non-renewable, two year visiting assistant professor position with a start date as early as January 1, 2025. We are looking for candidates who can help provide our graduate students with courses and research training in cutting-edge theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of meaning and sentence structure (broadly construed). We are particularly interested in candidates who pursue interdisciplinary approaches.

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    Deadline: until filled
    Posted: 10.07.24

  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in behavioral neuroscience. We welcome researchers who employ innovative approaches to understand the neural underpinnings of animal behaviors.

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    Deadline: until filled

    Posted: 09.30.24

  • The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin July 1, 2025. This position is in Cognitive/Cognitive Neuroscience. We are seeking someone with a broad research portfolio focused on understanding cognition through computational and/or experimental approaches. Example areas of research interest may include (but are not limited to): perception, attention, memory, language, decision-making and cognitive control, and example experimental approaches include (but are not limited to): computational modeling, machine learning, fMRI, TMS, EEG/MEG, and eye-tracking.

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    Deadline: December 31, 2024

    Posted 09.04.24