Psych Jobs 2025-2026
Welcome to the Grad Student Positions page. All jobs listed below are open grad student positions (i.e., faculty are recruiting grad students for their lab). If the start dates are not Spring 2026 or Fall 2026, you will see an asterisk next to the university indicating it is or likely is a Summer or Fall 2025 start date.
Job calls are organized so that the newest posts are at the top of each section. Please double check all job ads via the associated link for official deadlines and other important information. If a job has a strikethrough, it means that the job search was cancelled. Within each post, you will find the name of the university (with a little description of the type of psychology called for), the job ad link, the application review date (if provided), and the start date (if provided). If the post is cross-listed, the information in the parentheses at the end will include in which other categories the job is posted.
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New Jobs Last Posted: 10/16/2025
Update to Jobs Last Posted:
*University of Virginia (research coordinator for Brains, Emotions, and Adolescent Relationships Lab with Program for Anxiety, Cognition, and Treatment Lab, research on social and cognitive processes that contribute to development and maintenance of anxiety and related disorders); job ad; Review deadline: 10/07/2025; Start date: Flexible but ideal in next several months
University of Iowa (Isaac Petersen, PI of Developmental Psychopathology Lab, lab studies clinical child psychology, developmental psychopathology, externalizing behavior problems, self-regulation, school readiness, and developmental cognitive neuroscience); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: clinical, dev)
Florida International University (Dr. Elisa Trucco, PI of ReACH Lab, recruiting PhD students for clinical science in child and adolescent psychology program, lab currently does research on adolescent substance use and developing novel vaping cessation treatment for teens, lab website); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
Suffolk University (Dr. Wesley R. Barnhart, Director of the Elevating Minoritized Backgrounds in Research on Appearance Concerns and Eating Disorders Lab, 1 PhD student in clinical psychology program, research on assessment, etiology, and intervention of eating disorders in minoritized and underrepresented populations); job ad; Review deadline: 12/02/2025 (cross-listed: clinical, diversity)
Auburn University (Dr. Travis Evans, PI of the Social Affect and Behavior Integrative Neuroscience Lab, at least 1 PhD student in Clinical Psychology program, lab aims to better understand motivational and neural processes that contribute to social dysfunction in psychopathology); job ad; Review deadline: 12/02/2025
Binghamtom (SUNY) (recruiting faculty accepting fully funded graduate students, including Dr. Conte (developmental cognitive neuroscience of social perception), Dr. Hayes (computational cognitive modeling in judgment and decision making), Dr. Kurtz (behavioral and computational modeling of learning and reasoning), Dr. Lim (auditory cogntivie neurosciecne), Dr. McDonough (neurocognitive investigations of episodic memory and cognitive control in aging), Dr. Solomon (cognitive neuroscience of semantic cognition), and Dr. Dulas (cognitive neuroscience of relational memory in aging); job ad; Review deadline: 12/10/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, neuro)
University of Alabama (areas in cognitive, developmental, and social & personality); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2025; Start date: 08/2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, soc)
University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro (Dr. Jennifer Coffman, research on teachers' language and instructional practices that are associated with student language and academic outcomes in racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse bilingual schools; pre-k children's psychophysiological functioning interacts with schooling experiences to impact school readiness); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev)
University of Vermont (restorative effects of natural environments on attention and mood, moving to UVM in 01/2026, email sara.lotemplio@colostate.edu with CV and short statement of interest); job ad; Review deadline: 12/02/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
University of Florida (1-2 positions in Motivated Social Behavior Lab with Dr. Jose Martinez, research on how people make difficult decisions, navigate tradeoffs associated with everyday life, and motivations underlying those decisions, lab page); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, soc)
New Mexico State University (several PIs seeking graduate applicants include: Julia Soares (memory & digital technology); Jesse Grabman (applied and basic metacognition and memory, eyewitness confidence, individual differences, models of confidence); Dominic Simon (human memory & motor learning); Melissa Guynn (prospective memory, retrospective memory related to current research); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
University at Albany (SUNY) (faculty available to be primary advisors include Jeanette Altarriba, Greg Cox, Gaurav, Malhotra, Ryan Hubbard, and Heather Sheridan); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
University of Central Florida (Dr. Rachel Greenspan, interdisciplinary, multi-method research related to human memory in the criminal legal system and other applied settings with a focus on artificial intelligence); job ad; Review deadline: for domestic applicants, 01/01/2026, for international applicants 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
Iowa State University (Dr. Andrew Smith, human experiments and computational modeling to examine cognitive processes related to memory, judgment, and decision-making primarily in naturalistic contexts); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
Rice University (2 position open in Learning and Behavior Change Lab with Dr. Alyssa Sinclair, recruiting in either Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or Health Psychology programs, lab studies learning and memory, belief updating, and behavior change in service of addressing real-world challenges related to health, education, and climate change); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, health, neuro, soc)
Binghamtom (SUNY) (recruiting faculty accepting fully funded graduate students, including Dr. Conte (developmental cognitive neuroscience of social perception), Dr. Hayes (computational cognitive modeling in judgment and decision making), Dr. Kurtz (behavioral and computational modeling of learning and reasoning), Dr. Lim (auditory cogntivie neurosciecne), Dr. McDonough (neurocognitive investigations of episodic memory and cognitive control in aging), Dr. Solomon (cognitive neuroscience of semantic cognition), and Dr. Dulas (cognitive neuroscience of relational memory in aging); job ad; Review deadline: 12/10/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, neuro)
University of Rochester (Dr. Hannah Kramer is recruiting PhD students to join her new CASTLE lab (The Children’s Affective and Social Thinking Lab) at the University of Rochester. Research in the lab focuses on children’s and adults’ beliefs about mind, emotion, time, and social groups. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out by email (hkramer8@psych.rochester.edu)); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
University of Alabama (areas in cognitive, developmental, and social & personality); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2025; Start date: 08/2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, soc)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Bridget Cheeks is accepting one graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Bridget Cheeks is seeking a student to join her research team focused on promoting positive development among Black adolescents and emerging adults; her current project ‘The Daily Adolescent Experiences Study’ (DAES), examines daily and long-term processes of racial identity development, racial socialization experienced via family and social media sources, and racial discrimination experiences.); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, div, social)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Esther Leerkes is accepting one graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Leerkes’ primary research focuses on parent-child relations in infancy and early childhood; students working with Dr. Leerkes will serve as RAs on iGrow Up (a study of 3.5-5 year-old children who have been followed since the prenatal period--https://igrow.uncg.edu/)); job ad or more info; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Danielle Crosby is accepting a graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Crosby is seeking a motivated student interested in studying the policy and structural factors that shape children's access to high-quality early childhood education, especially for children in families with low income and from minoritized communities; prospective students are encouraged to connect with Dr. Crosby at dacrosby@uncg.edu); job ad or more info; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, diversity)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Linda Hestenes is accepting a student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Hestenes is seeking students to join her research team focused on promoting the development of young children in indoor and outdoor environments and considering issues of quality in these settings); job ad or more info; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, ed)
Tulane University (Dr. Zeytinoglu will be accepting up to 2 PhD students in the 2025-2026 application cycle through Tulane University's Department of Psychology. Students apply to the PhD Program in Psychological Science with a concentration in the Brain, Cognition, and Developmental Science Area); job ad; Review deadline: 12/1/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro (Dr. Jennifer Coffman, research on teachers' language and instructional practices that are associated with student language and academic outcomes in racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse bilingual schools; pre-k children's psychophysiological functioning interacts with schooling experiences to impact school readiness); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev)
Lehigh University (Alexis Smith Flores, Little Learners Lab); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: fall 2026
University of Iowa (Isaac Petersen, PI of Developmental Psychopathology Lab, lab studies clinical child psychology, developmental psychopathology, externalizing behavior problems, self-regulation, school readiness, and developmental cognitive neuroscience); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: clinical, dev)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univesrity (Virginia Tech) (Dr. Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, JK Lifespan Development Lab); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: fall 2026
Northeastern University (2 positions in Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab with Dr. Laurel Gabard-Durnam); job ad; Review deadline: not specified; start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, neuro)
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln (Dr. Jenna Finch, COMET Study, classroom based research, executive function, and math learning in elementary school); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: 08/2026 (cross-listed: dev, ed)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Bridget Cheeks is accepting one graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Bridget Cheeks is seeking a student to join her research team focused on promoting positive development among Black adolescents and emerging adults; her current project ‘The Daily Adolescent Experiences Study’ (DAES), examines daily and long-term processes of racial identity development, racial socialization experienced via family and social media sources, and racial discrimination experiences.); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, div, social)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Danielle Crosby is accepting a graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Crosby is seeking a motivated student interested in studying the policy and structural factors that shape children's access to high-quality early childhood education, especially for children in families with low income and from minoritized communities; prospective students are encouraged to connect with Dr. Crosby at dacrosby@uncg.edu); job ad or more info; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, diversity)
University of Georgia (Dr. Allison Skinner, Georgia Attitude Bias and Behavior (GABBA) Lab, apply to Behavioral and Brain Sciences program and indicate interest in working with Dr. Skinner, lab website); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: diversity, soc)
Suffolk University (Dr. Wesley R. Barnhart, Director of the Elevating Minoritized Backgrounds in Research on Appearance Concerns and Eating Disorders Lab, 1 PhD student in clinical psychology program, research on assessment, etiology, and intervention of eating disorders in minoritized and underrepresented populations); job ad; Review deadline: 12/02/2025 (cross-listed: clinical, diversity)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Linda Hestenes is accepting a student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Hestenes is seeking students to join her research team focused on promoting the development of young children in indoor and outdoor environments and considering issues of quality in these settings); job ad or more info; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, ed)
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln (Dr. Jenna Finch, COMET Study, classroom based research, executive function, and math learning in elementary school); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: 08/2026 (cross-listed: dev, ed)
University of Central Florida (Dr. Rachel Greenspan, interdisciplinary, multi-method research related to human memory in the criminal legal system and other applied settings with a focus on artificial intelligence); job ad; Review deadline: for domestic applicants, 01/01/2026, for international applicants 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
Texas Christian University (seeking PhD student to join the Quant Methods @TCU lab with Dr. Justin Luningham, work focuses on development of quantitative methods, applications of statistical procedures to new problems, and substantive interdisciplinary research in psychology and public health); job ad; Review deadline: 01/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2026
Auburn University (1 position open in Psychophysiology of Active Lifestyles Lab with Dr. C.J. Brush, recruiting for PhD in kinesiology, lab studies role of health behaviors in relation to internalizing psychopathology, cognitive function, and emotional experience); job ad; Review deadline: 02/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2026
Rice University (2 position open in Learning and Behavior Change Lab with Dr. Alyssa Sinclair, recruiting in either Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or Health Psychology programs, lab studies learning and memory, belief updating, and behavior change in service of addressing real-world challenges related to health, education, and climate change); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, health, neuro, soc)
University of Central Florida (Dr. Rachel Greenspan, interdisciplinary, multi-method research related to human memory in the criminal legal system and other applied settings with a focus on artificial intelligence); job ad; Review deadline: for domestic applicants, 01/01/2026, for international applicants 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
Binghamtom (SUNY) (recruiting faculty accepting fully funded graduate students, including Dr. Conte (developmental cognitive neuroscience of social perception), Dr. Hayes (computational cognitive modeling in judgment and decision making), Dr. Kurtz (behavioral and computational modeling of learning and reasoning), Dr. Lim (auditory cogntivie neurosciecne), Dr. McDonough (neurocognitive investigations of episodic memory and cognitive control in aging), Dr. Solomon (cognitive neuroscience of semantic cognition), and Dr. Dulas (cognitive neuroscience of relational memory in aging); job ad; Review deadline: 12/10/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, neuro)
Florida State University (several faculty in multi-departmental Neuroscience PhD program are recruiting students, positions within the Psychology department are available in the Dewan, Eckel, Hammock, Hermiller, Kira, Martin, Nee, Nugiel, Riddle, Salami, Varela, and Wilber labs); job ad; Review deadline: not specified; start date: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
Northeastern University (2 positions in Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab with Dr. Laurel Gabard-Durnam); job ad; Review deadline: not specified; start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, neuro)
University at Albany (SUNY) (faculty available to be primary advisors include Jeanette Altarriba, Greg Cox, Gaurav, Malhotra, Ryan Hubbard, and Heather Sheridan); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
Rice University (2 position open in Learning and Behavior Change Lab with Dr. Alyssa Sinclair, recruiting in either Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or Health Psychology programs, lab studies learning and memory, belief updating, and behavior change in service of addressing real-world challenges related to health, education, and climate change); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, health, neuro, soc)
University at Albany (SUNY) (faculty available to be primary advisors include Jeanette Altarriba, Greg Cox, Gaurav, Malhotra, Ryan Hubbard, and Heather Sheridan); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
University of Alabama (areas in cognitive, developmental, and social & personality); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2025; Start date: 08/2026 (cross-listed: cog, dev, soc)
University of North Carolina Greensboro (Dr. Bridget Cheeks is accepting one graduate student for the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Bridget Cheeks is seeking a student to join her research team focused on promoting positive development among Black adolescents and emerging adults; her current project ‘The Daily Adolescent Experiences Study’ (DAES), examines daily and long-term processes of racial identity development, racial socialization experienced via family and social media sources, and racial discrimination experiences.); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: dev, div, social)
Purdue University (Recruiting faculty = Chris Agnew (close relationships; relationships and technology) and Thekla Morgenroth (social categorization; gender/sex; intergroup relations); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: 08/2026
University of Georgia (Dr. Allison Skinner, Georgia Attitude Bias and Behavior (GABBA) Lab, apply to Behavioral and Brain Sciences program and indicate interest in working with Dr. Skinner, lab website); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: diversity, soc)
University of Florida (1-2 positions in Motivated Social Behavior Lab with Dr. Jose Martinez, research on how people make difficult decisions, navigate tradeoffs associated with everyday life, and motivations underlying those decisions, lab page); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, soc)
New Mexico State University (Recruiting PIs: Michael Marks; Attachment, Sexuality, and Relationships lab); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2025; Start date: Fall 2026
Rice University (2 position open in Learning and Behavior Change Lab with Dr. Alyssa Sinclair, recruiting in either Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or Health Psychology programs, lab studies learning and memory, belief updating, and behavior change in service of addressing real-world challenges related to health, education, and climate change); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2025; Start date: Fall 2026 (cross-listed: cog, health, neuro, soc)