The Annual SPSP Conference is taking place in San Diego this week.
Congratulations to the 2011 SPSP Award Recipients!
The 2011 Jack Block Award
Charles Carver
This award is for career research accomplishment or distinguished career contributions in personality psychology and honors an individual who has demonstrated “analytic sophistication, theoretical depth, and wide scholarship.”
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Donald T. Campbell Award
John Dovidio
This award is for career research accomplishment or distinguished career contributions in social psychology and honors an individual who “has contributed and is continuing to contribute to the field of social psychology in significant ways.”
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Career Contribution Award
Thomas Pettigrew, Harry Triandis
New in 2011, this award honors scholars who have made “major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas.” Recipients are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions across productive careers.
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Robert B. Cialdini Award
Ayelet Gneezy, Uri Gneezy, Leif Nelson, and Amber Brown
“Shared social responsibility: A field experiment in pay-what-you-want pricing and charitable giving.” Published in Science in 2010.
This award recognizes a publication “that best explicates social psychological phenomena principally through the use of field research methods and settings and that thereby demonstrates the relevance of the discipline to communities outside of academic social psychology.”
Endowed by FPSP
The 2011 Carol and Ed Diener Award in Personality
Laura King
This award recognizes a mid-career scholar “whose work substantially adds to the body of knowledge” in personality psychology and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology.
Endowed by FPSP
The 2011 Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology
Galen Bodenhausen
This award recognizes a mid-career scholar “whose work substantially adds to the body of knowledge” in social psychology and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology.
Endowed by FPSP
The 2011 Media Achievement Award
David Brooks
This award honors a person, normally outside the SPSP community, who has “a sustained and distinguished record for disseminating knowledge in personality or social psychology to the general public through popular media.”
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Media Prize
[Situationist Co-Founders] Jon Hanson and Michael McCann
SPSP’s first Media Prize recipients – This prize recognizes a person, normally outside the SPSP community, providing the best piece or collection of pieces in popular media that represents the contributions of personality or social psychology to the general public in a given calendar year.
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Murray Award
Michelle Fine
This award, which is presented at the APA Convention, is for “distinguished contributions to the study of lives … in the demanding kind of inquiry pioneered by Henry A. Murray.“
Sponsored by the Society of Personology and SPSP
The 2012 SAGE Young Scholars Awards
To be announced in January
These awards support the research of junior colleagues and recognize “outstanding young researchers” representing the broad spectrum of personality and social psychology research areas.
Sponsored by FPSP with the generous support of SAGE Publications
The 2011 Award for Distinguished Service to the Society
Richard Petty, Mark Snyder
This award recognizes “distinguished service, either in the form of a particular, significant activity or cumulative contributions over time, to the Society.”
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Award for Service on Behalf of Personality & Social Psychology
Congressman Brian Baird
This award ”recognizes distinguished efforts by individuals to benefit the field of social and personality psychology,” including noteworthy efforts to support educational and research activities in the field, professional leadership, and achievements that enhance the reputation of the field.
Sponsored by SPSP
The 2011 Theoretical Innovation Prize
Mark Landau, Brian Meier and Lucas Keefer
“A metaphor-enriched social cognition.” Published in Psychological Bulletin in 2010.
This prize recognizes “the most theoretically innovative article, book chapter, or unpublished manuscript of the year.” It honors theoretical articles that are especially likely to generate the discovery of new hypotheses, new phenomena, or new ways of thinking about the discipline of social/personality psychology.
Sponsored by SPSP
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