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1. Interested institution:
University of Salamanca
Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology
Faculty of Psychology
Avda. de la Merced, 109-131
37005 Salamanca
Spain
(http://psi.usal.es/socialyantropologia/)
(http://campus.usal.es/~psicologia/facpsi/)
2. Brief Description of the Institution
The University of Salamanca is the second oldest university in Europe (established in
1218). It is regarded as a prestigious university both in Spain and Latin America.
The Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology has some 25 faculty members,
with a majority of Social Psychologists and some Social Anthropologists.
Social psychologists Jaume Masip, Ph.D., and Carmen Herrero, Ph.D., have been
conducting research (and teaching) on psychology and law since the 1990s. Most of their
research is on verbal and nonverbal detection of deception and police interviewing, but
they have also been involved in studies on judicial sentencing, organizational justice, facial
composites, and other psychology and law related topics. They have established research
collaborations with the National Police School of Spain, some law professors at the
University of Salamanca, and reputed foreign scholars in the psychology and law domain.
They have a fair amount of peer-reviewed publications in international journals, including
top outlets such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences or Personality and Social Psychology
Review.
3. Please tick the areas of research (as established in Marie Sklodowska Curie
Actions)
☐ Chemistry (CHE)
☐ Environmental Sciences and Geology (ENV)
☒ Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
☐ Life Sciences (LIF)
☐ Economic Sciences (ECO)
☐ Mathematics (MAT)
☐ Information Science and Engineering (ENG) ☐ Physics (PHY)
4. Research / Project Description
The research fellow would join Dr. Herrero and Dr. Masip’s Psychology and Law research
group. S/he is expected to run research on nonverbal or verbal deception detection and/or
“EXPRESSION OF INTEREST” FOR HOSTING MARIE S. CURIE
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interrogations from either a social or cognitive psychology perspective. Current research in
our lab is focusing on testing cognitive models of deception, developing new interviewing
approaches to detect deception, deception detection in everyday life, and factors affecting
the choice of coercive vs. information-gathering interrogation tactics.
5. Who can apply?
At the deadline for the submission of proposals (10/09/2015), researchers (*):
 shall be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time
equivalent research experience.
 must not have resided or carried out their main activities in the country of Spain for more
than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.
 must have a background on cognitive or social psychology.
 prior research experience in deception detection might be considered, as well as statistics
and data analysis skills.
6. Contact person
Jaume Masip, PhD. (http://diarium.usal.es/jmasip)
Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology
University of Salamanca
Facultad de Psicología
Avda. de la Merced, 109-131
37005 Salamanca
Spain
E-mail: [email protected]
Voice: Int + 34 923 294400. Extension: 3324
7. Applications: documents to be submitted and deadlines
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Resume
Letter of motivation
Two reference letters
Deadline to submit these documents is April 30th, 2015.
Please note that:
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Deadline of the next call for proposals for Marie Sklodowska – Curie Individual Fellowships
is September, 10th 2015.
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Oficina Europea is only responsible for the display of the expressions of interests received
by the institutions; further contact and information requests will take place directly
between the host institutions and the interested researchers.
(*) Further details on the Call and additional eligibility criteria can be found at the Participants´Portal