The Music Lab at Harvard University is hiring

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If you are reading this message, you are probably doing so on a device that plays music. You are probably able to hear and perceive that music and you probably can also produce music of your own, even if you’ve never had music lessons. You are probably motivated to engage with music on a regular basis, regardless of your cultural background, location in the world, or socioeconomic status. You have probably been this way your whole life.

In the Music Lab, we’re figuring out why the human mind is designed in such a way that all of the above is true. We do basic science, running experiments with typically developing people of all ages and in populations with genetic conditions. We focus in particular on infancy and on people who live in isolated small-scale societies around the world. We also work on large corpus studies of ethnographies and field recordings from the Natural History of Song project and use those data in large-scale online experiments.

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Lectureship in the Centre for Culture & Evolution (CCE) at Brunel University London

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The Brunel University Division of Psychology is recruiting a Lecturer in the area of Cultural & Evolutionary Psychology.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 14th September 2017
More information on the Centre for Culture and Evolution.

Two 3-year post-doctoral positions on the Cultural Evolution and Ecology of Institutions

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Applications are invited for two 3-year post-doctoral positions to work with Dr. Thomas Currie at the Human Biological and Cultural Evolution group at the Penryn Campus of the University of Exeter on his ERC-funded project, The Cultural Evolution and Ecology of Institutions.

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2 Lectureships in Psychology at University of Liverpool

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Two positions advertised in Psychology at University of Liverpool, UK.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies – Criminology

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Lakehead University’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, invites applications for one tenure-track or tenured faculty appointment in Criminology at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor level to commence July 1, 2017.  The academic rank of the appointment will be commensurate with the qualifications of the successful candidate. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.

Interested candidates can contact Larry Fiddick, lfiddick@lakeheadu.ca, about evolutionary studies at Lakehead University.

Post-doc position in Cultural Evolution and Social Cognition

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A two-year post-doctoral position in Cultural Evolution and Social Cognition is currently open at the Département d’Etudes Cognitives (DEC) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Nicolas Baumard at the Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) and Julie Grèzes at the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC).

Please send a complete CV, a 2-pages cover letter and contact information of two references by March 15th to nicolas.baumard@ens.fr and julie.grezes@ens.fr, and feel free to contact us for more information!

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Postdoc in Evolutionary Approaches to Maternal-Child Health in Southern California

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A postdoctoral position is available at Chapman University in Orange, CA for a project utilizing interdisciplinary approaches to generate new insights to solve key problems in maternal-child health. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to develop and test novel hypotheses pertaining to maternal-child health in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook (project PI) and members of Chapman’s Center for Excellence in Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health (CEBAH).

The ideal candidate would bring unique expertise and perspectives from biological anthropology, Darwinian medicine, health psychology, evolutionary psychology, public health, endocrinology or other fields to formulate and test interdisciplinary research questions. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work with large existing NIH funded data sets that contain longitudinal data assessing biomarkers, hormones, psychosocial factors, ecological conditions, behavior and health outcomes in mothers, children, and fathers followed from pregnancy to the postpartum period. The postdoctoral fellow will also interface with local government and private stakeholders in an effort to create translational community-based interventions to improve maternal-child health. Read more

Post-doc position in human behavioural ecology in Finland

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Overview: Our multidisciplinary research team is looking for a post-doctoral researcher for a three-year project investigating life history, social integration and the influence of kin in forced migrants in a 20th century Finnish population. The project is an exciting opportunity to investigate the consequences of forced migration of over 400000 people during World War II from an evolutionary ecology and sociology viewpoint. These migrants encountered much the same traumas and faced similar prejudices and resentment that current migrants face today, making the study of this population particularly appropriate to gain insight into the present and future of current migrants.The project, headed by Dr. John Loehr, is funded by Kone Foundation for the period 2017-2020. http://www.koneensaatio.fi/en/hanke/learning-from-our-past/ Read more

Lecturer in the Anthropology of Cognition and Culture, Department Anthropology, Durham University UK

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The Department of Anthropology seeks to appoint an outstanding candidate at Lecturer (Assistant Professor) level to consolidate its strength in evolutionary approaches to cognition and culture. As a result of significant investment through RCUK and HEFCE funding, the department now has vibrant research programmes in comparative cognition, social learning and cultural evolution. The aim of this post is to consolidate this area and strengthen links between the study of cultural and cognitive evolution, as well as between evolutionary and socio-cultural anthropology. We welcome applications from exceptional scholars with research and teaching interests in the broad field of cognition and culture. Although the main requirement of this post is for the successful candidate to have synergies with members of the Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, a proven track record of, or demonstrable potential for collaboration with scholars from both social and biological anthropology would be advantageous.

Psychology Lecturer (Grade 8) at Liverpool

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As part of the continued growth of Psychology provision at Liverpool, we wish to appoint two Lecturers who have experience of contributing to successful taught undergraduate and/or postgraduate programmes. You will have extensive teaching experience in cognitive/forensic/social occupational psychology, delivered at all levels, and be fully conversant with external regulatory and professional accreditation processes, as well as more local quality assurance processes. You should have a degree (2:1 or above) in Psychology or a related discipline and have (or be about to obtain) a PhD in Psychology. You will also have experience of undertaking and publishing research of at least a national standing, and/or have attained similar status in pedagogical research and the development of innovative learning and teaching strategies.