ERC-funded research position in an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science (TRAD-INV-INDF-2026-02)

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Description: Note: This page is for informative purposes only. The official call (particularly, the legal requirements for candidates) and all information related to the selection process (admission, short list, final result) is published in the Department’s website. Position description: "VALENCE ASYMMETRIES: The positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to understand the mechanisms that underlie the asymmetries between the positive and the negative across disciplines. The successful candidates will conduct tasks that are transversal to the different work packages of the project. Their research will seek to understand how emotion and affect impact and underlie cognitive processes such as belief formation, decision making, conceptual representation, as well as language production and interpretation. They will work in very close collaboration with Prof. Isidora Stojanovic (project PI) and the entire team. Tasks: - Conduct cutting-edge research in one or more fields concerned by this interdisciplinary project. - Write research articles, alone and in collaboration, and submit them to international first-leve...