Postdoctoral Associate Position at Virginia Tech
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Interface of Leadership and Teams (ILT) lab of Dr. Roseanne Foti, in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech (https://www.psyc.vt.edu/labs/ilt). Projects in the lab investigate the process of how leaders emerge in small groups, the role of followers' perceptions in the leader emergence process, congruence of leader and follower perceptions of leadership and followership, measurement of implicit leadership and followership theories, and the link between leader emergence and leader effectiveness. The successful applicant will play a critical role in a grant-funded project investigating the role of episodic and semantic memory processes in the measurement of leadership. The position is for two years. Starting date can be any time after November 1, 2018.
Required Qualifications:
- D. in organizational psychology, or in a very closely related field.
- Strong methodological and quantitative background (particularly Latent Profile Analysis and Longitudinal Modeling).
- Knowledge in the following areas of cognitive psychology: prospective memory, episodic memory, and formal models of memory.
- Willingness to work in a team science environment.
- Be a strongly motivated, enthusiastic and self-driven individual who excels in a highly collaborative environment
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience using diverse sources of data, both traditional ones such as surveys, and non-traditional ones, such as administrative data and social media.
Interested candidates should apply on line at www.jobs.vt.edu, posting number SR0150158. Please attach a resume or CV, a cover letter, a statement of research interests, a list of three references, along with the application. Review of applications will begin immediately and will end when the position is filled. Please send inquiries to Roseanne Foti (rfoti@vt.edu), Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
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Roseanne Foti
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA
(540)231-6581
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