Psych Jobs 2026-2027
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 2027 or Fall 2027, you will see an asterisk next to the university indicating it is or likely is a Summer or Fall 2026 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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University of Toledo (OH) (Dr. Emily Atkinson's lab, recruiting at least 1 grad student for clinical psychology PhD program with interest in mechanisms underlying problematic substance use); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
Florida International University (FL) (Dr. Elisa Trucco, director of ReACH Lab, 1 grad student for clinical science PhD program, work aims to identify risk and protective factors that lead to adolescent substance use with current projects focused on prevention and intervention of adolescent nicotine vaping); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
University of Louisville (KY) (following faculty will be reviewing apps for PhD program in clincial psychological science: Dr. Clarissa Ong - PI of the Process-Oriented Intervention Science Lab; Dr. Cheri Levinson - PI of the Eating Anxiety and Treatment Lab; Dr. Sara Bufferd - PI of the Child Anxiety and Mood Lab); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
Texas Tech University (TX) (Dr. Brittany Lancaster will be reviewing graduate applicants for those interested in pediatric health promotion); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: 08/01/2027
Auburn University (AL) (Dr. Travis Evans of the Social Affect and Behavior 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: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
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University of Utah (UT) (Dr. Kara Moore is recruiting a PhD student who is interested in eyewitness memory and eyewitness identification); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
North Dakota State University (ND) (ExCL Lab (Dr. Evelyn Milburn, PI), recruiting grad student with an interesting in figurative language, multiword phrase processing, world knowledge, ambiguity, and their intersections, ideal applicant will have a background in linguistics, psycholinguistics, or communication sciences and disorders); job ad; Review deadline: 01/15/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
University of Auburn (AL) (Imaging of Brain Health Lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027, research uses neuroimaging and large-scale datasets to study how biological and environmental factors shape brain and mental health); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
University of Wyoming (WY) (Dr. Erin Harrington, PI of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Perceptions (CAMP) Lab, recruiting at least one experimental psychology PhD student for the cognitive psychology/cognitive development PhD program, the lab focuses on prospective memory (memory of future tasks), parents' cognitive labor, and Alzheimer's disease risk factors); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, dev)
University of Central Florida (FL) (Dr. Rachel Greenspan is recruiting a PhD student for fall 2027 (Law, Applied Memory, and Psychology Lab). Areas of specialization: psychology and law, memory and technology, research methodology); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026 for domestic applicants and 11/01/2026 for international applicants; Start date: Fall 2027 (Cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
Princeton University (NJ) (PhD students to join Emergent Cognition Lab); job ad; Review deadline: 08/17/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro)
University of Maryland College Park (MD) (Lab for Integrative Cognition and Neuroscience, reach out to PI (Weizhen Xie) by email with your CV and statement of interest to learn more); job ad; Review deadline: immediately; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro)
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University of Wyoming (WY) (Dr. Erin Harrington, PI of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Perceptions (CAMP) Lab, recruiting at least one experimental psychology PhD student for the cognitive psychology/cognitive development PhD program, the lab focuses on prospective memory (memory of future tasks), parents' cognitive labor, and Alzheimer's disease risk factors); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, dev)
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Florida State University (FL) (Dr. Ashley Edwards is recruiting grad students in the PhD and Thesis-Masters program in Educational Psychology: Learning & Cognition, Dr. Edwards focuses on dyslexia and reading development with particular interests in word reading and reading fluency); job ad; Review deadline: 12/15/2026 for PhD, 02/15/2027 for Masters; Start date: Fall 2027
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University of Central Florida (FL) (Dr. Rachel Greenspan is recruiting a PhD student for fall 2027 (Law, Applied Memory, and Psychology Lab). Areas of specialization: psychology and law, memory and technology, research methodology); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026 for domestic applicants and 11/01/2026 for international applicants; Start date: Fall 2027 (Cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
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University of Central Florida (FL) (Dr. Rachel Greenspan is recruiting a PhD student for fall 2027 (Law, Applied Memory, and Psychology Lab). Areas of specialization: psychology and law, memory and technology, research methodology); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026 for domestic applicants and 11/01/2026 for international applicants; Start date: Fall 2027 (Cross-listed: cog, forensic, human factors)
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New Mexico State University (NM) (Dr. Cameron S. Kay's ARM lab, seeking grad students interested in studying antagonistic personality traits, epistemically suspect beliefs, and/or psychometrics); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: io, quant, soc, open)
Ohio University (OH) (Dr. Jingyi Li's research focuses on how emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and machine learning, can improve the way organizations understand and assess people); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
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University of Auburn (AL) (Imaging of Brain Health Lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027, research uses neuroimaging and large-scale datasets to study how biological and environmental factors shape brain and mental health); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
Princeton University (NJ) (PhD students to join Emergent Cognition Lab); job ad; Review deadline: 08/17/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro)
University of Maryland College Park (MD) (Lab for Integrative Cognition and Neuroscience, reach out to PI (Weizhen Xie) by email with your CV and statement of interest to learn more); job ad; Review deadline: immediately; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro)
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New Mexico State University (NM) (Dr. Cameron S. Kay's ARM lab, seeking grad students interested in studying antagonistic personality traits, epistemically suspect beliefs, and/or psychometrics); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: io, quant, soc, open)
University of Auburn (AL) (Imaging of Brain Health Lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027, research uses neuroimaging and large-scale datasets to study how biological and environmental factors shape brain and mental health); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: cog, neuro, quant)
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New Mexico State University (NM) (Dr. Cameron S. Kay's ARM lab, seeking grad students interested in studying antagonistic personality traits, epistemically suspect beliefs, and/or psychometrics); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: io, quant, soc, open)
University of Arizona (AZ) (PhD position in SPECIEs Lab (PI: Diego Guevara Beltran), strong interest in cooperation/prosociality, functions of emotion, and/or sociality/wellbeing, a background in evolutionary psychology, quantitative expertise, and ability to conduct fieldwork in a Spanish speaking community is a plus); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
University of Wyoming (WY) (Dr. Jarrod E. Bock's Masculinity and Culture of Honor (MACH) lab is recruiting PhD students with interests in culture of honor, gender norms, and mental health (e.g., suicide, depression, substance use); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
University of Georgia (GA) (Dr. Allison Skinner, lab website, new grad student in GABBA Lab to study topics related to prejudice/stereotyping/discrimination, largely focusing on the psychological factors that contributes to the perpetuation of the systems of oppressions, apply to new Social Developmental & Health graduate program); job ad; Review deadline: 11/15/2026; Start date: Fall 2027
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New Mexico State University (NM) (Dr. Cameron S. Kay's ARM lab, seeking grad students interested in studying antagonistic personality traits, epistemically suspect beliefs, and/or psychometrics); job ad; Review deadline: 12/01/2026; Start date: Fall 2027 (cross-listed: io, quant, soc, open)