"Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology"

Posted: 14-Feb-25

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Categories: Academic/Faculty, Other - Academic/Faculty

Internal Number: 14723

School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Department/Area: Psychology

Position Description

Research on Theory-of-Mind, Pragmatics, and 'Scripted' Behavior

Start date: Summer/ Fall 2025

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of Professor Tomer Ullman in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

The specific research topic would broadly be within common-sense reasoning, especially as they relate to theory-of-mind and/or pragmatics. While not strictly required, the lab has a current interest in reasoning about 'scripted' behaviors in other people (how and when people perceive others as being rote or