[Jobs] Post-doctoral position in human evolution, economics and politics

[Leora Lawton]

Post-doctoral position in: human evolution, economics and politics



This two-year post-doctoral position is to work with Pascal Boyer as
part of a new interdisciplinary project at the University of Lyons,
France, starting September 2013.The goal of this project is to
investigate the influence of evolved human psychology on social
processes typical of modern, large-scale societies. This work will
focus on such topics as the design of institutions and their reliance
on evolved preferences for cooperation; perceptions of markets and our
social exchange psychology; how our “intuitive sociology” is based on
evolved small-group interaction; how an evolved psychology of
dominance and power is relevant to understanding modern politics; how
political programs recruit intuitive moral understandings; etc. Some
possible directions of research are described in a summary of the
grant proposal. Knowledge of French is not required.

Candidates should have pursued doctoral research in a relevant field
in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics or political
science. If you are interested, please send Pascal Boyer a CV and
relevant publications (or links) as well as a short letter of
motivation describing how you would envisage your contribution to this
programme. Email: pboyer [at] artsci.wustl.edu.



Pascal Boyer

Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory

College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pboyer










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Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
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