[CogSci] Two PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on the relation between children's lived experience and cognitive development

[Manuel Bohn]

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The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.

The Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is seeking qualified applicants for two fully funded PhD positions. Supervisors are Dr. Manuel Bohn and Prof. Daniel Haun.

The Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology combines approaches from developmental, cross-cultural and comparative psychology, to study uniquely human cultural diversity and the universal cognitive mechanisms that enable and constrain it. The successful candidates are expected to work on their respective projects but also have the opportunity to collaborate and participate in other projects at the department.

Project Background

Language and social cognition are among the best studied phenomena in developmental research. Much progress has been made in recent decades in understanding when these abilities develop. But we still know fairly little about how (and even if) social cognitive and communicative skills improve through interacting with others. Theoretical positions range from seeing social interaction as the main driver of developmental change to seeing it as having little predictive value. We want to develop new methods to connect children’s communicative and social cognitive development with their everyday life experience in order to provide empirical answers to these questions.

PhD student position: New methods to study social cognition in young children: https://tinyurl.com/uqbovt7 <https://tinyurl.com/uqbovt7>

PhD student position: Quantifying children’s lived experience: tinyurl.com/wasx7mr <http://tinyurl.com/wasx7mr>

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Start date is August 2020 with some flexibility.

The selected candidates will have a doctoral funding contract for a period of at least 3 years. Salary will be based on the German Tarifvertrag für den Öffentlichen Dienst (TVöD) guidelines.

Candidates of all nationalities are invited to apply. The Max Planck Society and Comparative Cultural Psychology department are committed to equal opportunities and encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and those that are typically underrepresented in science fields, such as women and minorities. 

Information on the institute is available at http://www.eva.mpg.de/ <http://www.eva.mpg.de/>.

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