Research Assistant Position @ John Hopkins University, The Social & Cognitive Origins group, Baltimore MD

The Social & Cognitive Origins group at Johns Hopkins University (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time Research Assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, with the possibility of extension. The SCO group uses non-invasive experimental approaches to study the cognitive abilities of humans, our closest ape relatives, and pet dogs, with a special emphasis on social cognition.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and assist with research activities, in collaboration with the PI, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers.
• Recruit, train, and mentor undergraduate researchers, in collaboration with postdoc and PhD student leaders of individual projects.
• Assist with the production of experimental apparatuses and stimuli and preparation of computer-based experiments.
• Assist with recruitment and testing of human and dog participants.
• Some testing of animals at off-campus sites (e.g., zoo-housed primates) may also be necessitated, potentially involving travel and/or flexible work hours.
• Day-to-day management of lab activities, including data management, behavioral coding, purchase of materials and equipment, documentation of lab processes and protocols, maintenance of participant databases, and communication with lab members and department admin.
• Opportunities may exist to lead independent research projects, but this is not a requirement of the position.

Qualification:

Minimum 

• Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
• Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• Microsoft Office suite, email software, Adobe, and the capacity to learn JHU policies, procedures, and purchasing and management interfaces.
• Comfortable working with people and nonhuman animals.

Preferred

• Experience working with human participants, dogs, and/or nonhuman primates.
• Experience coordinating students or volunteers.
• Experience with animation or video-editing software (e.g., Blendr, Adobe Creative Cloud), computer programming, and/or data management and analysis software (e.g., R, MatLab)

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