PhD Position in Social/Cultural Psychology: Gendered Emotion Expression Across Cultures

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Full-time
Posted June 11, 2026

Job Description

What are you going to do


The PhD candidate will become part of the Starter+Stimulus Grant Project “Do We Even Speak the Same Language? Gendered Emotion Expression across Cultures” supervised by Dr., Katharina Block, Dr. Michael Boiger, and Dr. Suzanne Oosterwijk. As a part of this team, you will play a central role in shaping and executing this new line of research. You will work on a wide array of research tasks, that include designing and performing empirical studies, analysing big data, and presenting your work at international conferences and in scientific journals.

The Project
Despite exemplary institutional progress towards gender equality (e.g., full equal rights, WHO, ), gender relations are still fraught in highly liberal Western countries like the Netherlands. Yet, close and cooperative relationships between men and women—for example, among romantic partners, friends, and co-workers—are key to human well-being....