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 | 3-year Postdoctoral Position |  | | | | | Institution/Organization: | University of Bristol | | Job Location: | United Kingdom | | Job Type: | Postdoctoral | | Contact Person: | Angela Rowe | | Date Posted: | May 8th, 2006 | | Closing Date: | June 15th, 2006 | | Web Site: | http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/ | | | | |  |  | |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (level RA 1A)
A postdoctoral research assistant post (level RA1A) is available from September 2006 until September 2009 in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, UK. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Angela Rowe, Dr. Ian Penton-Voak, and Dr. Casimir Ludwig on a research programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The research programme aims to develop a clear model of the way that adults with different attachment styles process facial expressions of emotion. Across three sets of studies we aim to test two competing emotion processing models to resolve a controversy in the adult attachment literature. The project examines whether adults of different attachment styles (a) are differentially sensitive to perceptual cues in emotional faces; (b) vary in the attentional strategies they use to process facial expressions of emotions; and, (c) differ in overt biases toward or away from emotional expressions. The post-holder will be in charge of the day-to-day running of the project. Duties will include setting-up a participant pool for the experiments, the generation of experiments, all participant testing, data entry and statistical analyses, the write-up of papers for publication and dissemination of results at conferences .
Essential post-holder skills:
-Experience of research in the areas of adult attachment and social cognition.
-Good computer skills (familiarity with SPSS for Windows, Excel, Word, etc.).
-An upper second class or first class first degree or Master's degree in Psychology (or equivalent)
-PhD
-Good written and oral communication skills.
- A high standard of spoken and written English.
Desirable skills:
-Knowledge of the literature on face processing
-Knowledge of visual attention and eye tracking
-Experience or willingness to learn to programme experiments using such as E-prime and Matlab packages
-PhD topic in Social or Social Cognitive Psychology
The closing date for applications is 15th June 2006.
Informal enquiries can be made to Angela Rowe, email a.c.rowe@bristol.ac.uk
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