Postdoc: Trust, Cooperation and Adapt!

Are you a researcher with a background in social psychology (or related areas) and interested in new approaches to research on trust and human cooperation, especially as they relate to collective threats or crises? Join our team!

Your job
As part of the Gravitation project Adapt!, we are looking for a postdoc researcher who will conduct and facilitate research on trust, cooperation, and adaptation to crises.

For crisis responses to be successful, people, groups of people, and societal institutions need to act in ways that promote (often longer-term) collective interests. The project examines what people, groups of people, and societal institutions can do to respond in adaptive ways to increase trust and cooperation. This includes issues such as various forms of punishment, direct versus indirect, punishment by individuals or collectives, that can help to ensure a sufficient level of trust and cooperation. The project will involve experimental studies as well as one or more field studies.

Your duties
You will have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• coordinate and conduct research within the period of appointment
• contribute to teaching, both (guest) lecturing and supervision of research master students
• write (and co-write) peer-reviewed journal articles
• present research results at national and international workshops and conferences;
• help with the organization of events, workshop, and conferences
• participate in project meetings and collaborate with the other team members
• assist with knowledge dissemination and other activities of Adapt!

Requirements:

• Your qualities
• a completed PhD in social psychology or related social or behavioral science or a PhD manuscript formally approved by supervisors.
• expertise in interdisciplinary topics related to trust and human cooperation and how they may help reduce or solve collective or societal problems.
• expertise in conducting experimental research, survey research, and ideally innovative methods such as experience-sampling.
• ideally you have a fluency in Dutch and English.
• strong interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills.

As a university, we strive for equal opportunities for all, recognising that diversity takes many forms. We believe that diversity in all its complexity is invaluable for the quality of our teaching, research and service. We are always looking for talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences. This also means that we are committed to creating an inclusive community so that we can use diversity as an asset.

We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not meet all the requirements.

Salary Benefits:

A challenging position in a socially engaged organisation. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

• a salary of minimum € 3.378,00 (Scale 10) and maximum € 5.331,00 (Scale 10) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile Researcher 4. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
• a position for at least 0.8 FTE. Your employment contract will initially last 1 year. Afterwards, the possibility of expansion exists.

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:

• A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
• 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
• contribution to commuting expenses
• optional model for designing a personalized benefits package
• discounts on collective insurances (healthcare- and car insurance);

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