Temporary Employee

Temporary Employee

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Posted Job Title
Temporary Employee

Job Profile Title
Temporary Employee - Non-Exempt

Job Description Summary
The temporary employee will work on a collaborative, NSF-funded project that uses computational, behavioral, and electrophysiological approaches to better understand principles of neural decision-making in dynamic environments.

Job Description

The focus of the summer work will be to develop and implement a new behavioral paradigm to examine if and how human behavior relates to specific, theoretically motivated features of our recently developed theories. Experience in coding and human behavioral testing are required.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
Perelman School of Medicine

Pay Range
$7.25 - $155.75

Affirmative Action Statement
Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

Special Requirements
Background check may be required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.


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