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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:

The National Intelligence Community (NIC) experiences challenges in maintaining professional and personal boundaries, online or in person, with others who have potential adversarial intent. 

There is a growing need to minimize the psychological impact on individuals that are required to manage different personas. 

• How do we minimize potential negative psychological impact of maintaining personas that are incongruent to themselves? • How can persona maintenance be optimized to enhance credibility and effectiveness?

Example Approaches: 

Possible approaches are:

• behavioral measurements of people maintaining a persona while working in different environments
• determining best practice for establishing and maintaining boundaries online and in person, to enhance credibility and effectiveness while reducing personal impact.

Relevance to the Intelligence Community:

Understanding the psychological impact of online personas, how this can be minimized to reduce mental burden and how this can be optimized to increase credibility. 

References:

• Bedrov, A., & Gable, S. L, (2023), ‘How Much Is It Weighing on You? Development and Validation of the Secrecy Burden Scale’, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231172387. 

Key Words: Behavioral psychology, occupational psychology, occupational safety.

Postdoc Eligibility

• U.S. citizens only
• Ph.D. in a relevant field must be completed before beginning the appointment and within five years of the appointment start date
• Proposal must be associated with an accredited U.S. university, college, or U.S. government laboratory
• Eligible candidates may only receive one award from the IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program

Research Advisor Eligibility

• Must be an employee of an accredited U.S. university, college or U.S. government laboratory
• Are not required to be U.S. citizens

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Only
• Degree: Doctoral Degree.
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