Position overview Salary range: The salary range for this position is $93,500-121,400. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See the Professor and Professor of Teaching (LSOE) Series – Regular Salary Scales (Academic Year Salary Scale). “Off-scale salaries” and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the
designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions. Application Window Open date: September 2, 2026 Next review date: Sunday, Nov 15, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Wednesday, Mar 31, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review
date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. Position description The Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks an innovative researcher for a tenure-track assistant professor position with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2027. We seek a researcher whose work combines the following two elements. First, the research addresses substantive
theoretical questions concerning how people understand, reason about, and interact with other people and social environments, broadly construed. This may include, for example, research on how people reason about the beliefs, knowledge, intentions, and capabilities they attribute to other agents; perceive intentions and social interactions from visual scenes; form and revise inferences about other minds, including how
these capacities develop; reason about moral actions and judgments; solve problems in groups. Relevant work may be situated within social cognition, judgment and decision making, developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, or neighboring areas. We are particularly interested in approaches that can be applied to naturalistic data. Second, the research uses quantitative methods and/or computational modeling to
develop and test theories of social reasoning and behavior. The position is intended for researchers whose primary emphasis is theoretical and quantitative. The successful candidate will build an independent research program while contributing to teaching, mentoring, and service. Learn more about our department and the university at: Department of Cognitive Sciences' website. For full consideration, applications must
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