<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Psychology Department </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">(Cognitive Area) at Rutgers University - New Brunswick is </span>seeking<span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"> applicants for fully funded positions in the PhD program. We have an outstanding team on the faculty specializing in cognitive development, with close links to the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and our world-class Philosophy Department. Some of the faculty research interests include language, memory, theory of mind, moral reasoning, sensory-motor development, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">numerical cognition, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">and curiosity.  </span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>The application deadline is <b>December 15th</b>. You can find more information about the application process <a href="https://psych.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-program-overview#how-to-apply" target="_blank">here</a> (<a href="https://psych.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-program-overview#how-to-apply" target="_blank">https://psych.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-program-overview#how-to-apply</a>). </span>Please note that our program does <b>not</b> require GRE scores for applications this year.<span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We welcome applications from under-represented ethnic minorities, women, applicants with disabilities, first-generation college graduates, and non-traditional students. Additional fellowships are available to under-represented minorities and students with economically disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">PhD students at Rutgers are represented by our union along with faculty, staff, and post-docs (<a href="https://rutgersaaup.org/graduate-students/" target="_blank">https://rutgersaaup.org/graduate-students/</a>). This unity with the full-time faculty has meant decades of advocacy on issues facing graduate employees, such as workload protections, fair compensation, and employment support  that has good working conditions in order to learn on-the-job and protect students' time so you can also make good progress towards earning your degrees.</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PhD students in the Cognitive Psychology program also have the opportunity to learn and conduct research in areas outside their specialization through the </span><a href="https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-certificate" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Graduate Certificate</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> program at RuCCS to collaborate with an interdisciplinary faculty from departments of Linguistics, Philosophy, Computer Science, Engineering, and beyond.</span><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Please encourage your students to apply to the Psychology PhD program (Cognitive Area) at Rutgers University! </p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Best,</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Jenny</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jenny Wang, Ph.D.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Department of Psychology & Center for Cognitive Science</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Rutgers University - New Brunswick</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/" target="_blank">Cognition and Learning Center</a></div></div></div></div></div>