PhD or Post-doc Position on Intergroup Criticism
Due to generous funding by the Austrian Research Agency FWF, the Political and Intercultural Psychology group is HIRING PhD candidates and/or Post-Doc!
Our project is on deviance in task groups, i.e., how groups deal with members who perform poorly, very well, bring up conflicting information or suggest new approaches to solving a task at hand. We’ve recently published on the topic ( Thürmer & Kunze, 2023, JPSP; Thürmer, 2024, GPIR), and now want to investigate these processes in interacting groups and with intensive longitudinal process measures, as well as large-scale online studies. Although this is a basic-research project, my group has a track record in the research areas of politiical polarization ( Thürmer & McCrea, 2023), health decisions/vaccination/nutritional styles ( McCrea et al., in press; Thürmer & McCrea, 2022; Thürmer et al., 2022), and team performance ( Thürmer et al., 2020). So we can support PhD projects on these or related topics.
Preferred starting date is June 1, 2024 (later starting dates can be discussed). Please submit your application including your letter of motivation, CV, up to two letters of recommendation, and transcripts in one pdf-file by April 25, 2024 to . See the attached call for further details and links to the papers!
We are delighted to receive the START Prize 2023 from the Austrian Science Fund!
We are delighted to announce that we have been selected in this year’s FWF selection process for the START Prize. This funding of 1.1 million euros will allow us to investigate the dynamic interaction within groups in detail. In particular, we aim to understand why groups often fail to utilize deviant performances, information, and criticism. Using cutting-edge technologies such as mobile eye-tracking and AI analyses, we intend to precisely capture and analyze the dynamic collaboration within groups.
Political and Intercultural Psychology
The goal in our team Political and Intercultural Psychology is to understand the basic group processes that drive our everyday life, including how we interact with people of different backgrounds, make political decisions, and decide what is best for us. In our research, we currently focus on collective planning, criticism within and between groups and group reactions to low performers. This goal also guides our teaching and within the meaning of third mission we share our research findings with news outlets and the public.
