Post-doctorate in experimental social psychology Gender stereotypes (M/F) in Clermont-Ferrand

Organisation/Company CNRS Department Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et cognitive Research Field Biological sciences Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Application Deadline 20 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (UTC) Country France Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 3 Dec 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The post-doctoral fellow will work under the supervision of Pascal Huguet, Director of the LAPSCO, and the co-direction of Marie Demolliens (Research Engineer at the LAPSCO). The post-doctorate will focus on the statistical analysis of data collected as part of the ANR STECCIE project coordinated by the APSY-V Proprietary Research Unit at the University of Nîmes on the influence of gender stereotypes on the career choices of general stream high school students. The post-doctoral researcher will be involved in analysing the results and disseminating the scientific findings through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international and national conferences.

Research activities focus on investigating the influence of gender stereotypes and the dynamics of inter- and intra-gender comparisons on the career choices and academic performance of general stream high school students.

The 'Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive' (LAPSCO-UMR UCA-CNRS 6024; https://www.lapsco.fr ), located on the Carnot site of the University of Clermont Auvergne. The UMR currently employs a total of 102 people, including permanent and contract staff, PhD students, post-docs and ATERs. Its aim is to study the cognitive processes involved in the major mental functions (perception, attention, memory, language, temporality), from their cerebral bases to their social and cultural determinants, with major stakes in the fields of education, health and industry. At the interface of experimental psychology (social, cognitive and developmental) and integrative and cognitive neurosciences, this focus corresponds within the laboratory to four teams: 1- 'Cognition-Behaviour-Context'; 2- 'Social Behaviour and Collective Dynamics'; 3- 'Physiological Stress and Psychosocial'; 4- 'Social and Cognitive Ethology' and several cross-disciplinary teams, including the most recent 'Humanoid Social Robotics and Cognition', all working towards a highly integrated vision of cognition and human behaviour. The person recruited will carry out his/her mission as part of the ANR 'STECCIE' contract. He or she will work with the members of the team set up for the project, under the responsibility of the LAPSCO director and the co-direction of Marie Demolliens (IGR LAPSCO), and will be provided with a workstation and all the laboratory's infrastructure.

This post is open to PhD graduates in experimental social psychology or cognitive science, with a strong interest in gender bias and the statistical analysis of multivariate data.

Main skills :

• Excellent knowledge of the international scientific literature on gender stereotypes and other related biases and their effects on school performance and career choices in the academic world.
• Strong statistical skills: regression analyses, multi-level analyses, mediation analyses, in particular.
• Programming scripts for data analysis (R, Matlab) is a plus.

Secondary skills:

Wide-ranging knowledge of social psychology research in schools.

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