Postdoc fellow: A cross-cultural study of the human gender mosaic
Qualified applicants will have a doctorate in psychology, anthropology, geography, or a relevant social science discipline. Experience with cross-cultural studies, including working with nation-level information (gender-related and general), some degree of quantitative literacy, and knowledge of transnational feminist perspectives, are not essential but are considered an advantage.
Research Description In the past decade I’ve described and tested the ‘mosaic’ hypothesis – the claim that sex/gender differences in the brain do not add-up consistently in individuals; rather, most brains comprise of both features that are more common in females and features that are more common in males. This is also true for human psychological characteristics – humans possess unique mosaics of feminine (more common in women compared to men) and masculine characteristics. Using the Gender Mosaic Questionnaire (GMQ; https://gendermosaic.tau.ac.il/) we are now creating a very large dataset of the answers of people from diverse populations around the world on a set of psychological and behavioral variables that show large sex/gender differences (the GMQ is available in 9 languages). The postdoctoral scholar will work on a project to map within-individual variability (i.e., mosaicism) in these set of variables as well as group-level differences in mosaicism and in sex/gender differences in gendered characteristics across intersecting variables, such as, country, age group, education, gender identity- and sexuality-based groups. Position Description The postdoctoral scholar will be responsible for the cross-cultural aspects of this study, including working closely with our statistician and with our collaborator, Dr. Nicole Else-Quest (Department of Women's & Gender Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), running the relevant analyses, supervising MA and BA students working on this project, and writing-up papers – all under the supervision of the PI, Daphna Joel. The postdoctoral scholar is also expected to be an active member of the lab, including spending at least three days a week in the lab and participating in the weekly lab meetings.