Announcing the 2017 SPSP Award Recipients

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology is Honored to Announce our 2017 Award Recipients!

Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence - E. Tory Higgins, Columbia University

This teaching and mentoring award is intended to recognize exceptional and selfless efforts to shape our field through mentoring activities that promote research integrity, impact, and productivity, and also a record of serving as an accessible and supportive advisor.

Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award - Christina Maslach, University of California, Berkeley

This senior career contribution award honors a social or personality psychologist who has applied theoretical and/or empirical psychological discoveries and advances to the understanding and improvement of important practical problems across their career.

Block Award - Oliver P. John, University of California, Berkeley

This senior career contribution award honors a researcher for career accomplishment in personality psychology. This award is intended to recognize rigorous research over one's career.

Book Prize - Robert B. Cialdini, Arizona State University, for "Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade"

This prize for a single outstanding contribution honors a book written by a psychologist that makes a distinctive and important contribution to the field by promoting an understanding of the science of social and personality psychology to the general public.   

Campbell Award - Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University

This senior career contribution award recognizes distinguished scholarly achievement and sustained excellence in research in social psychology. This award is intended to recognize rigorous research over one's career, and is not limited by research area or methodological approach to social psychological science.

Career Contribution Award - Judith A. Hall, Northeastern University; Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan

This senior career contribution award honors a scholar who has made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas together.

Diener Award in Personality Psychology - Samuel D. Gosling, University of Texas at Austin

This mid-career contribution award recognizes a scholar whose work has added substantially to the body of knowledge to the personality psychology field and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology.

Diener Award in Social Psychology - Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Leiden University

This mid-career contribution award recognizes a scholar whose work has added substantially to the body of knowledge to the social psychology field and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology.

Distinguished Scholar Award - Teresa M. Amabile, Harvard Business School

This senior career contribution award honors a scholar who has made distinctively valuable research contributions across their career that bridge personality and social psychology or bridge personality or social psychology to another field (ie. law, education, organizations, or medicine).

Excellence in Science Journalism Award - Ed Yong, The Atlantic

This service award honors a member of the media for excellence in coverage of the personality and social psychology field. Recipients may be recognized for a particular piece of media coverage or for a distinguished record of disseminating knowledge of the field to the general public.

Methodological Innovator Award - James Blascovich, University of California, Santa Barbara

This senior career contribution award recognizes an individual who has made a significant or sustained contribution to innovative methods in social and personality psychology across their career.

Service to the Field Award - Alison Ledgerwood, University of California, Davis

This service award recognizes distinguished efforts by individuals to benefit the field of social and personality psychology generally.

Service to SPSP Award - Stacey Sinclair, Princeton University

This service award recognizes distinguished service specifically to SPSP. Distinguished service may be in terms of a particular, significant activity or cumulative contributions, performed over time.

Student Publication Prize - Priyanka D. Joshi, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Gabrielle Filip-Crawford, St. Catherine University; Matthew D. Rocklage, Northwestern University; and Andrew H. Hales, Purdue University

This prize for a single outstanding contribution recognizes excellence in research by student members. Papers are eligible for consideration if they are published in the calendar year prior to nomination in PSPB, PSPR, or SPPS.

Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award - Andrew N. Christopher, Albion College

This teaching and mentoring award recognizes excellence in teaching and mentoring among faculty at colleges and universities that do not have Ph.D. programs in social and/or personality psychology.