Graduate Student Poster Award
The Graduate Student Poster Award recognizes exceptional poster presentations given by graduate student members of SPSP at our Annual Convention.
Applications for the Graduate Student Poster Award open in Fall 2024.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENTs
Drew Gorenz, Cross-Cultural Humor Appreciation of Celebrity Spoonerisms
Amabel Jeon, How and When Collectivism Shapes Processing of Ambiguous Messages
Marisa Krauter, The Effect of Perceived Stigmatization on Mask Attitudes and Mental Health Outcomes for People with Facial Differences
Aleksandra Rusowicz, The Dual Process of Prejudice: Racism, Nationalism, and Sexism in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Olivia Westemeier, Birds of a Feather: Serial, Non-Serial, and Non-Sexual Perpetrator Men Differ in Binge Drinking and Peer’s Sexual Violence History
Runners-up
Colin Li, Navigating the Closet: Barriers to Identity Disclosure among LGB Individuals
Margaret Meyer, Police Search Polices Distort Perceptions of Voluntary Consent
Nakwon Rim, Language use between liberals and conservatives diverges along moral lines
Haniya Rumaney, They’re out to get us!: Investigating the impact of stigma salience on conspiracy endorsement
Giuditta Scalco, White Supremacy Beliefs Predict Explicit but Not Implicit Biases Towards Perceived Arab/Middle-Eastern Men.
The Graduate Student Poster Award recognizes graduate poster presentations characterized by excellence in research, clarity in presentation, and personal knowledge demonstrated in response to questions from the judges.
Five winners will receive a $100 honorarium. Five runners-up will receive a $50 honorarium.
To be eligible for an award, applicants must:
- Be the first author on a poster accepted to SPSP 2024.
- Be a student member of SPSP at the time of application for the award.
- Be a full-time graduate student at the time of submission.
- Planning to present their poster in person at SPSP 2024 in San Diego.
- Present a poster that reflects the applicant's work, and not that of an advisor.
- Work must NOT be in-press or already published.
- Past winners of the Graduate Student Poster Award are NOT eligible.
Note: Past winners of the Outstanding Research Award, Undergraduate Student Poster Award, and Student Travel Award are eligible for this award.
In Round 1, reviewers will evaluate posters based on their effectiveness in communicating the main finding(s) or conclusions in a simple, easy-to-follow format. In addition, reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Scores from Round 1 will be used to select thirty poster finalists for Round 2. On the basis of the applicants' scores in Round 2, five first-place winners and five runners-up will be selected.
Round 1
If you meet all the eligibility criteria, you may apply for the Graduate Student Poster Award by uploading the following documents:
1. A .pdf copy of the poster you intend to present at the SPSP 2024 Annual Convention. View samples of previous winners.
2. A 500-700-word (maximum) research summary in .pdf or .doc format.
- What is a research summary?
The research summary should provide an overview of your research and offer complementary information that enhances your poster. This may include more detailed explanations of related literature and how the research question was formed, any secondary analyses and results, or information the presenter might convey in conversations with an audience at their poster presentation. Please make sure to provide appropriate citations throughout the summary.
- What sections do I need to include in the research summary?
Competitive submissions will include each of the following sections (or sections equivalent to those) below:
- Background Information or Introduction
- Research Question(s) or Objective(s)
- Hypotheses or Potential Outcomes (if the work is exploratory)
- Impact (of project)
- Methods or Procedures
- Results or Analyses
- Conclusions or Discussion
- Any in-text citation should be in APA format; a reference list is not required
- What sections do I need to include in the poster?
Posters are not required to include all sections described above. If posters do not include one of these sections, however, they should be addressed in the research summary.
- IMPORTANT: You will be automatically disqualified IF...
- Your summary exceeds 700 words. (In-text citations will count towards the word limit, but a reference list will not.)
- Failed to prepare your files for masked review. Please name your research summary file "GSPA_Abstract" and name your poster file "GSPA_Poster". Remove all identifying information (e.g., names, affiliations, personalized QR codes, or website links) from your poster, research summary, AND file names before uploading your submission. Instead, you may add a placeholder or a text box that could read, for example, '[Insert QR code here]'.
Round 2
If you are chosen as a finalist, you will be required to submit a brief video presentation, limited to no more than 5 minutes, showcasing your poster. In this recording, you must share your screen to display your poster, and your camera must be turned on. For additional details on what to include in this video, please refer to the [Judging Criteria & Process] section below.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at [email protected].
Round 1: The judges will evaluate posters based on their effectiveness in communicating the main findings or conclusions in a simple, easy-to-follow format. In addition, reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Applicants' scores from this round will be used to select 30 poster finalists. For more information, please refer to the Round 1 rubric.
Round 2: The judges will evaluate the recordings of the 30 finalists' poster presentations. Scores in this round will be based on the finalists' ability to effectively present their posters verbally. This includes answering questions (which will be provided by Round 1 judges), guiding viewers through the poster, and articulating the key elements of the research presented. Five winners and five runners-up will be selected. For more information, please refer to the Round 2 rubric.
2023
Hayley Svensson, Lay Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Goal Disengagement
Eva Lin, Mindsets Shape Well-Being and Job Search Outlook during Employment Uncertainty
Adele Weaver, A Multi-Measure Approach to Assessing Nonverbal Synchrony in Intergroup Versus Intragroup Interactions
Ming Ma, How do we judge others’ ability? Implicit judgments of competence are anchored on the face but can be updated
Maggie Albright-Pierce, The Relativity of Choice: Affective and Motivational Consequences of Framing Indulgent Food
2022
Christina Leckfor - From Close to Ghost: The Effects of Ghosting and Need for Closure on Psychological Needs Satisfaction
Ella Lombard - Feedback Receptivity: A Leadership Strategy for Reducing Gender Gaps in Male-Dominated Fields
H. Annie Vu - Gender Differences in Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Paradoxical Roles of Compassion for Self and Others
Shilaan Alzahawi - Lay Perceptions of Scientific Findings: Swayed by the Crowd?
Sierra Semko
Cues About a Student's Social Class Matter When Pandemic Meets School Discipline
2021
Kristina D. Dickman, The Role of Early Life SES and Childhood Trauma in Predicting Cardiovascular Reactivity to Daily life Social Conflict
Andrea Freund, Well but Unwanted: Contemporary Forms of Discrimination against Prioritizing Mental Wellbeing at Work
Vincenzo Olivett, Civilians’ Implicit Evaluations of the Police
Porntida (Mai) Tanjitpiyanond, How Economic Inequality Shapes Social Class Stereotyping
Claire Wigginton, Under the Influence of a Prime: Alcohol Priming Moderates the Effect of Alcohol Expectancies on State Hostility
2020
Yei Rim Suh, The perpetuation of gender inequality through men's greater reluctance to make gender incongruent choices
Julisa Lopez, Redface and Blackface: Differences in Acceptability of Racialized Representations
Erik Jansen, Leaders flexibly use different kinds of motivational strategies to prepare people for different kinds of tasks
Laura Tian, You are What You Weigh: Perceiving Weight Change From Nonverbal Cues
Ike Silver, Political Neutrality Aversion: When and why 'staying out of it' backfires
2019
Darwin Guevarra, Are they real?: Non-deceptive placebos reduce emotional reactivity in both self-report and EEG data
Sherman Shiu Man Kwok, It’s not easy to talk about them: Expressing hurt feelings in romantic relationships
Christa Nater, How preferentially selected female leaders impact other women’s and men’s interest in aspiring to leadership positions
Natalie M. Wittlin, Medical school experiences and bias against lesbian and gay individuals among early-career physicians: A longitudinal study
Samantha L. McMichael, Sex differences in future vividness and academic disengagement
2018
Basima Tewfik, The help-giver’s dilemma: How to decline requests for help at work without hurting one’s image
Emily Powell, Fighting the pain of giving: How adding time delays to donation pledges increases charitable giving
Jennifer LaCosse, Antiprejudiced moral conviction predicts proactive support for racial equality. (Note: This is the final version of LaCosse’s poster, after being selected for Round 3. All identifying information was absent on the original submission.)
Jeremy Feiger, Thou shalt not: The moderating effect of supernatural primes on the relationship between viewing God as punishing and aggressive behavior
Troy Steiner, In the mind of the beholder: Narcissism relates to distorted and enhanced self-image
For more information, contact the Student Committee at [email protected].
Diversity Undergraduate Registration Stipend
The Annual Convention Registration Stipend Portal opens August 10, 2023, and closes September 14, 2023.
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology has established a fund devoted to increasing diversity within personality and social psychology. As part of this initiative, eligible undergraduate students are invited to apply for registration stipends to attend the SPSP Annual Convention. Registration stipend winners will receive a virtual or in-person compensation code to register for the Annual Convention.
Applicants from both inside and outside the United States are encouraged to apply.
The SPSP Diversity and Climate Committee will also host a reception for stipend recipients during the convention (time and location to be announced). Stipend recipients are required to attend this reception, where they will have the opportunity to meet with scholars in personality and social psychology.
Applicants cannot have previously won any of the SPSP travel/registration awards (i.e., the International Travel/Registration Award, the Graduate Student Travel/Registration Award, the Diversity Graduate Travel/Registration Award, or the Teacher & Scholar Travel/Registration Award).
Applicants may apply for this stipend together with any other stipends for which they are qualified (see here for a full listing of available registration stipends). However, an applicant can receive only one of the stipends.
Other criteria:
- SPSP does not have a strict definition of diversity. All members are welcome to apply if they feel their background will add to the diversification of SPSP.
- Applicants must be currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program majoring in psychology or be a graduate in the past three years of such a program and currently working in areas related to psychology.
- Applicants are required to be an SPSP member through December 31, 2024.
- Applicants must be a member of an underrepresented group in social/personality psychology (these groups include, but are not necessarily limited to, ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay, and bisexual students; transgender students; and students with a physical disability).
Winners will be chosen via a lottery system.
2023 Convention
- Anurada Amarasekera, Simon Fraser University
- Begum Gulbeden Babur, University of Southern California
- Chavely Bernal, St. Thomas University
- Eesha Bokil, University of Maryland College Park
- Amanda Jones Bossert, Elon University
- Huanchen Cai, Carleton College
- Andrea Camacho-Garron, University of British Columbia
- Alexis Cameron, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Deborah Cesarini, Duke University
- Tim Wei-Ting Chao, University of Toronto
- Felice Chen, University of Washington
- Isabela Ixchel Cruz-Vespa, San Diego State University
- Nallely De La, California State University Northridge
- Brendan Alexander Diaz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Daniela Gonzalez, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
- Ana Herndon, Duke University
- Whitney Hintz, Hamilton College
- Melissa Christine Holland, Saint Louis University
- Dwight Hua, Stanford University
- Alaa Ibrahim Itani, American University of Sharjah
- Olivia James, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
- Emily Le, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Vivian Liu, New York University
- Samantha Loar, Kent State University
- Abdullah Marei, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ashmita Mazumder, University of Toronto
- Blanca Patricia Montoya, California State University, San Bernardino
- Kelly Morel, CUNY Queens College
- Briella Alexette Nava, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
- Okole Neh Ngalla, Ohio State University
- Giovanna Nicolau, Positivo University - Brazil
- Helen Padilla Fong, Boston College
- Amish Patel, Sonoma State University
- Rodrigo Pimentel, University of Toronto
- Anni Qiao, University of Washington
- Alexis Lee Richeson, Kent State University
- Fiya Star Rivers, Georgia State University
- Maria Fernanda Rojas, University of Miami
- Megan Santagata, University of California, Irvine
- Ishita Shukla, University of Michigan
- Aravind Sreeram, College of William and Mary
- Diana Tobon, Earlham College
- Monica Tran, California State University, East Bay
2022 Convention
- Aghilan Aiyadurai, University of Toronto
- Raihan Alam, UC San Diego
- Dianna Alvarado, University of Michigan
- Selina Alvarez Ramirez, Western Oregon University
- Sahana Babu, University of British Columbia
- Oreoluwa Badejoh, University of Georgia
- Makesha Balkaran, Brooklyn College
- Cora Rose Baron, UC Santa Barbara
- Margaret Ann Bennekamper, University of Delaware
- Cassandra Kyerewaa Berko, Howard University
- Yvette Melissa Bivins-Sanchez, William & Mary
- Jenna Blumhagen, University of Alberta
- Kayla Danae Burton, William & Mary
- Samantha Chacon Sifuentes, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Elizabeth Chan, University of Toronto
- Christine Chang, Chapman University
- Katheleen Chavez, Brown University
- Nicole Chen, Singapore Management University
- Spencer Xin Chen, Simon Fraser University
- Tiffany Chin, Arizona State University
- Xi Hui Chua, National University of Singapore
- Rachel De La Rosa, University of Texas at El Paso
- Gaelle Milad El Helou, University of Florida
- Meredith Ellis, Florida State University
- Yuritza Y. Escalante, University of California, Riverside
- Noor Fatima, Columbia University
- Sandra Elizabeth Garcia Torres, Western Oregon University
- Isaias Ghezae, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Roberta Gonzalez, Stanford University
- Ria Gualano, Johns Hopkins University
- Zoe Juhi Kefallonitou Gupta, Columbia University in the City of New York
- Elaine Hoan, University of Toronto
- Danielle Holyoke, University of Georgia
- Jada Houston, University of Michigan
- Shiyu Hu, Cornell University
- Kathryn Carol LaRue Hutson, Kansas State University
- Anne Le Huynh, University of California, Irvine
- Aryele Jackson, Western Washington University
- K. T. A. Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Singapore Management University
- Yoko Katahira-Ables, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Yesuel Kim, Purdue University
- Kalista M. Kyle, University of Toronto
- Samantha Lapka, The Ohio State University
- Ruiyi Li, Maastricht University
- Alina Lin, University of Alberta
- Beatriz Lopez Galeana, University of California, Irvine
- Katherine Anne Mason, New York University
- Mary Darling Moser, Stanford University
- A'isyah Najib, Singapore Management University
- Courteney Parry, Lehigh University
- Summer Pascual, Western Washington University
- Zhiming Peng, University of Toronto
- Rogelio Christopher Petras, Nevada State College
- Phoebe Tu-Phi Pham, University of California, Irvine
- Anastasia V. Poponina, UC Irvine
- Kasheena Gehna Rogbeer, University of California, Los Angeles
- Amira Nouran Saudi, James Madison University
- Zeina Sbai, Knox College
- Trenton Daniel Schneider, Kansas State University
- Valentyna Simon, Chapman University
- Sophie Srivastava, Chapman University
- Salem Sulaiman, UC Berkeley
- Amos Tai, Singapore Management University
- Shilong Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Khirsten J. Wilson, Chestnut Health Systems
- Joax Wong, Singapore Management University
- Maggie Yao, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Abigail Yuen, University of British Columbia
- Jayson Yung, Carleton University
- Samantha Zaw, University of Chicago
- Jamie Zhang, Columbia University
2021 Convention
- Gaelle El Helou, University of Florida
- Joseph Abraham Donald McBride, Missouri Institute of Mental Health
- Mira Carlinnia, Wellesley College
- Shanice Ng Shi Hui, National University of Singapore
- Carol Lu, Johns Hopkins University
- Raymond Wu, University of Toronto
- Jingyi Luo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Begum Gulbeden Babur, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Rayyan Alfatafta, Skidmore College
- Wanqi Zhang, Davidson College
- Ali Javeed, University of Toronto
- Jonathan Jovani Azpeitia, University of Washington
- Devyani Goel, Columbia University
- Samantha Nicole Smith, Kellogg School of Management
- Rafael Valdece Sousa Bastos, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Lisa Hui En Koh, National University of Singapore
- Jiachen Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Amisha Vyas, New York University
- Weishan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
- Rachel-Marie Fua Sinco, Colby College
- Frosch Yi Xuan Quek, Singapore Management University
- Katherine Anne Mason, Purdue University
- Erica Chung, Colby College
- Keliang Colin Li, Rutgers University
- Nadyanna M Majeed, Singapore Management University
- Yuyang Zhong, University of California, Berkeley
- Alexis Ceja, San Francisco State University
- Marisa Nardone Mahoney, Wellesley College
- Minwan Zhu, University of California, Berkeley
- Valda Han, University of California, Los Angeles
- Rim Gacimi, Douglas College
- Zoey Eddy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Emerald Anne V Pedroza, Syracuse University
- Nathan Gillespie, Union College
- Izilda Amber Pereira-Jorge, Rutgers University
- Christine Q Nguyen, UC Berkeley
- Nicole I. Ritenour, University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee
- Yvonne Phan, University of California, Irvine
- Phuong B Pham, Franklin & Marshall College
- Duc Pham, Hamilton College
- Daniela Barrios Reyna, Southern New Hampshire University
- Benjamin Valen, New College of Florida
- Roua Daas, Butler University
- Afrooz Ghadimi, University of British Columbia
- Olivia Postel, Wellesley College
- Michael Anthony Ruiz, UC Berkeley
- Courtney Olds, University of North Florida
2020 Convention
- Amy Senger, Texas A&M University–San Antonio
- Annalisa Myer, Stony Brook University/Cornell University
- Asha Hinson, Smith College
- Begum Gulbeden Babur, Barnard College of Columbia University
- Camila Tirado, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Camille Smith, Metropolitan State University
- Chenyi Wang, Trinity University
- Christina Tahtouh, University of Texas at Austin
- Conrado Eiroa Solans, College of St. Scholastica
- Daniel Mayo, University of Miami
- Daphne Castro Lingl, Indiana University Bloomington
- Dominic C Locantore, Stanford University
- Emily Reitz, Penn State University
- Erik Portillo, Ohio state university
- Fabiana De Lima, Stanford University
- Frances Evalyne K Hampton, Nevada State College
- Hannah Samuels, Indiana University
- Hyomin Lee, Clark University
- Ian Duke, Cornell University
- Ilayda Orhan, Yale University
- Jeannine Alana Bertin, McGill University
- Joahana Segundo, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Joelle Alexandra Dorsett, University of Florida
- Jordan Alvarez, Skidmore College
- Joshua Garcia, University of Houston
- Kah Sin Desmond Yeoh, Columbia University
- Katie Linette Rodriguez, California State University, San Marcos
- Lam Xuan Le, Thang Long University
- Lesley Selina Cruz, Florida Gulf Coast University
- Leslie J Remache, Purdue University
- Leslie Schneider, Yale University
- Lisset Martinez-Berman, Texas A&M University - San Antonio
- Mackenzie Shea DeLoatch, Duke University
- Maija Arthur, Texas A&M - San Antonio
- Maria Kim, Alberta Health Services/University of Alberta
- Meleah Marquis, Southern Nazarene University
- Michael Brooks, Western Washington University
- Michael Tiancheng Xie, Duke University
- Yitong Zhao, Wake Forest University
- Don Jeremiah Hanford Pereira, National University of Singapore
- Francisco Luis Macias, Jr., Trinity University
- Jose Leon Martinez, Florida State University
- Carolina Lopez, University of California, Berkeley
- Irein Thomas, Knox College
- Katherine Anne Mason, Purdue University
- Paola Alejandra Baca, University of Texas at El Paso
- Rahkya Talia Smith, Tennessee State University
- Redeate Gugsa Wolle, Columbia University
- Samantha Nicole Smith, Kellogg School of Management
- Sanjana Kadirvel, Psychological and Brain sciences
- Shujianing Li, Harvard University
- Summer Narita Allegra Millwood, UC Irvine
- Sydney Belen Garcia, UC Berkeley
- Thach Bao Huynh, Wabash College
- Valerie B Goliff, Western Washington University
- Vincent B Rice, University at Buffalo
- Zayd Jawad, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Zoe Ferguson, University of California, Berkeley
- Zoey Eddy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ashley Egert, Rutgers University
- David U. Ifediba, Jr, University of California, Riverside
- Dylan Rice, Harvard University
- Alexa Sacchi, Yale University
- Lillian Nguyen, University of Washington
- Stefanie Walsh, Purdue University
- Alix Alto, UMass Amherst
- Jali Packer, University of Cambridge
2019 Convention
- Paige Makenzie Abbott, Stephen F. Austin State University
- Manal Faraj Aboargob, The University of Texas at El Paso
- Jessica Abramson, Wellesley College
- Erick Aguinaldo, California State University, Fullerton
- Daniel James Alonso, University of Washington
- Shuantae Ang, National University of Singapore
- Da'Ja'Nay Askew, Defiance College
- Jay Barker, Clarkson University
- Brianna Nicola Campbell, Adelphi University
- Aastha Chadha, Stanford University
- Jennifer Chan, Carleton College
- Kevin Chi, University of British Columbia
- Mathew Coles, University of Arizona
- Trisha Ann Dehrone, Indiana University
- Dget Downey, Lafayette College
- Grace Drake, Davidson College
- Heather Engdahl, Concordia University of Nebraska
- Rebeca Fierro-Perez, University of Texas at El Paso
- Alesha Marie Frederickson, The University of Winnipeg
- Micheal Garza, University of Houston
- Marrissa Danielle Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Maria Cecilia Jesusa, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Celine Jusuf, Purdue University
- Amanda Kim, Hamilton College
- Enya Entung Kuo, University of California, Los Angeles
- Elinam Ladzekpo, , Indiana University
- Jieming (Lewis) Li, Carnegie Mellon University
- Yufei Li, Beijing Normal University
- Jasmine Noriko Lwin, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Madison Jayne Matijevich, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Amanda McIvor, University of Alberta
- William Alexander Morrison, Centenary College of Louisiana
- Qi Jia Ng, National University of Singapore
- Ian Conor O'Dowd, Southern New Hampshire University
- Teju Ogungbadero, Miami University
- Blessing Opara, University of Kansas
- Juan Pablo Ospina, Stanford University
- Elizabeth Quinn, Northwestern University
- Hannah Feliz Ramil, Florida State University
- India Reidt, Tulane University
- Isaac Richardson, Florida State University
- Jacob W. Roberson, University of Richmond
- Jordan Rodriguez, University of Kansas
- Jesus Saavedra, Weber State University
- Zachary Schroeder, Northwestern University
- Tyrone Sgambati, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Nirupika Sharma, New York University
- Hannah Singer, University of California, Los Angeles
- Lucas Smith, Indiana University
- Crystal Solano, California State University, San Bernardino
- Rachel Song, Stanford University
- Rebecca Grace Stargel, Lafayette College
- Claire Stout, Duke University
- Min Yu Teo, National University of Singapore
- Eric Tu, University of Toronto
- Andrea Villafuerte, Stanford University
- Alexis Wilkinson, University of Missouri, Columbia
- Liz Anne Wilson, St. Olaf College
- Sydney Amelia Wood, Trinity University
- Felix Wu, Rice University
- Jennifer Yeaton, Princeton University
2018 Convention
- Noorfaadhilah Abdul Halil Khan, National Univ. of Singapore
- Elena Amaya, Univ. of California Irvine
- Joseph Anderson-Gutiérrez, Bethel Univ.
- Tatiana Avila, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach
- Nasheha Baset, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
- Sakina Bengali, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
- Katelyn Byers-Carter, St Catherine Univ.
- Jessica Carter, Indiana Univ.
- Hung-Wei Chen, Stony Brook Univ.
- Ivy Cheng, National Univ. of Singapore
- Daniel Choi, UCLA
- John Chwe, NYU
- Oana Dumitru, New York Univ.
- Xunchang Fang, Univ. of Hong Kong
- Grace Flores-Robles, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
- Maria Garay, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
- Nancy Gomez, UCLA
- Laura Hazlett, Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Kyshia Henderson, UCLA
- Victor Ike, Marquette Univ.
- Alice Lee, Univ. of British Columbia
- Connor Leshner, Arizona State Univ.
- Jaclyn Lisnek, Indiana Univ. Bloomington
- Arthur Marsden, Univ. of North Texas
- Laura Moreno, Univ. of California Irvine
- Thao Nguyen, Univ. of Houston
- Jessica Paek, Columbia Univ.
- Elisa Rapadas, Saint Mary's College of California
- Catherine Record, Simmons College
- Ayla Rubenstein, Univ. of North Dakota
- Carlos Santos, Univ. of South Florida
- Julia Smirnov, Univ. of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
- Tatiana Spisz, Univ. of Portland
- Dy-Onna Stith, Wesleyan College
- Charlie Su, Univ. of California, Irvine
- Nicholas Sudel, Franklin and Marshall College
- Stylianos Syropoulos, Univ. of Portland
- Chloe Tanega, Duke Univ.
- Stephanie Tepper, Univ. of Washington
- Avery Thurston, Duke Univ.
- Christine Townsley, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
- Kayla Uyeda, Univ. of Chicago
- Sumer Vaid, Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey
- Jonathan Vides, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
- Catherine Wall, Univ. of Houston
- Emily Watlington, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kaleigh Wilkins, Indiana Univ.
- Cierra Williams, Florida Atlantic Univ.
- Rachel Wong, UCLA
2017 Convention
- Victoria Abou-Ghalioum, Cleveland State Univ.
- Vanessa Anyanso, Columbia University
- Francisco Arriaga Pazos, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
- Sandra Bertram Grant, University of Kansas
- Amy Biggerstaff, Univ. of Central Missouri
- Jonathan Capaldi, Carleton University
- Jamie Carlson, Metropolitan State Univ.
- Vanessa Castro, UC Berkeley
- Linus Chan, Univ. of Montana
- Stephanie Clark, Tulane Univ.
- Paige Clark, Cleveland State Univ.
- Brittany Edwards, UT at San Antonio
- Manuela Faulhaber, Iowa State University
- Fariba Ghayebi, Yale University
- Mindy Guajardo, University of Northern Iowa
- Ayana Hart, Spelman College
- Ivan Hernandez, DePaul University
- Sabrina Huang, Stanford University
- Naomi Isenberg, Seattle Pacific Univ.
- William Jettinghoff, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Maria Ji, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Dahyeon Kang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jacqueline Lechuga, UT El Paso
- Michelle Lee, New York University
- Gia Macias, CSU San Bernardino
- Krizchelle Magtoto, University of Portland
- Jin Miao, Tsinghua University
- Oluwatobi Molokwu, Gettysburg College
- Andres Montealegre Moreno, Universidad de los Andes
- Emily Moorhouse, UC Riverside
- Miriam Morales Suarez, Univ. of Puerto Rico Cayey
- Evan Murphy, University of Nevada Reno
- Ian Nesbitt, Univ. of Nevada Reno
- Danielle Oyler, Univ. of Missouri
- Yeji Park, Columbia University
- Navanté Peacock, University of Kansas
- Elliott Perez, Courtney Bonam
- Helena Rabasco, University of Washington
- Anna Raskind, Columbia Univ.
- Sheryl Raygor, Metropolitan State University
- Jonathan Rogers, University of Minnesota - Duluth
- Toni Rufledt, University of Kansas
- Lacey Sawyers, West Virginia University
- Sarah Schad, Texas Christian Univ.
- Andre Solis-Flores, Univ. of California Berkeley
- Rachel Tayler, Columbia Univ.
- Nadia Vossoughi, Univ. of Michigan
- Melissa Walman, UCLA
- Cory Washington, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Megan Wright, Michigan State University
- Zizhong Xiao, Azusa Pacific University
2016 Convention
- Sharmin Alam, California State University, Northridge
- Daniela Avelar, Franklin & Marshall College
- Hannah Bentley, Oklahoma State University
- Shelby Boggs, West Virginia State University
- Paul Brancaleone, Florida Atlantic University
- Michael Carnovale, University of Toronto
- Zachary Chacko, Indiana University
- Yingyi Chang, University of Iowa
- Hiu Cheung, University of California, Berkeley
- Yun Ju "Roxie" Chuang, Social Impressions Laboratory
- David Crittendon, Murray State University
- Shawn Davis, University of Central Missouri
- Deanna Day
- Roberto De La Rosa, University of Arizona
- Jesse DeLaRosa
- Abraham Dickey III
- Noadia Doirin, Florida Atlantic University
- Nathan Echols, University of Chicago
- Hernan Escobar
- Sarka Griffin
- Brenda Gutierrez, California State University, Long Beach
- Eliana Hadjiandreou, Clark University
- Mary Havers, Pennsylvania State University
- Jeremy Horne, Howard University
- Jennifer Jackson, Oklahoma State University
- Nicole James, York College
- Zohaib Jessani, Rollins College
- Joy Josephs, University of Texas
- Sandra Khalaf
- Danielle Krusemark, University of North Florida
- Garam Lee, CSULB
- Yachen Li, University of Toronto
- Dongyu Li, University of Kansas
- Karen Longmore, York College
- Jessica Lopez, Trinity Washington University
- Kelly Martin, University of North Texas
- Natassia Mattoon
- Lingjie Mei
- Linas Mitchell, Furman University
- Matthew Olah
- Dylan Owsiany, Florida Atlantic University
- Jun Park, Pomona College
- Hadar Ram, Tel Aviv University
- Rachel Rogers, University of North Florida
- Jing Han Sim
- Xingyun Song
- Mariame Soukoule, York College
- Denae Stallings
- Jamie Tombari, The College at Brockport, State University of NY
- Teodora Tomova
- Mindy Truong, University of Southern California
- Arianna Ulloa, University of Pennsylvania
- Michael Vitro, Florida Atlantic University
- Phoebe Wong, University of California, Berkeley
- Deborah Wu, Northwestern University
- Iseel Yanez, University of Texas, Arlington
- Jeanette Zambrano
- Yuan Zhou
For more information on this award, please contact [email protected].
Diversity Graduate Registration Stipend
The Annual Convention Registration Stipend Portal opens August 10, 2023, and closes September 14, 2023.
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology has established a fund devoted to increasing diversity within personality and social psychology. As part of this initiative, eligible graduate students are invited to apply for registration stipends to attend the SPSP Annual Convention. Registration stipend winners will receive a virtual or in-person compensation code to register for the Annual Convention.
Applicants from both inside and outside the United States are encouraged to apply.
The SPSP Diversity and Climate Committee will also host a reception for stipend recipients during the convention (time and location to be announced). Stipend recipients are required to attend this reception, where they will have the opportunity to meet with scholars in personality and social psychology.
- SPSP does not have a strict definition of diversity. All members are welcome to apply if they feel their background will add to the diversification of SPSP. You will be asked to attest to being a member of a diverse community.
- Applicants cannot have previously won any of the SPSP Travel Awards (i.e., the International Travel Award, the Graduate Student Travel Award, the Diversity Graduate Travel Award, or the Teacher/Scholar Award).
- Applicants may apply for this stipend together with any other stipend for which they are qualified (see here for a full listing of available registration stipends). However, an applicant can receive only one of the stipends.
- Applicants are required to be Graduate Student members through December 31, 2024.
- Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program with an emphasis on social/personality psychology at the time of the convention.
- Applicants must be a member of an underrepresented group in social/personality psychology (these groups include, but are not necessarily limited to, ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay, and bisexual students; transgender students; and students with a physical disability).
Winners will be chosen via a lottery system.
2023 Convention
- Jovani Azpeitia, University of Washington
- Cora Rose, UC Santa Barbara
- Aldo M, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Rani Inderjit, The Ohio State University
- Tiara A., Simon Fraser University
- Gianna Elaine, Clark University
- Rodrigo Fabretti, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Alejandro Garcia, California State University San Bernardino
- Keliang Colin, University of Toronto
- Hayley Alexis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Brittany Lee, University of Calgary
- Hannah Lunkenheimer, The University of Texas at Austin
- Xiao Ma, NYU
- Michelle Marji, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ramona Martinez, University of California, Riverside
- Omayra Janine, University of California, Riverside
- Eva Meza, UC Davis
- Fahima Mohideen, Rutgers University
- Gil Enrique, University of California, Los Angeles
- Mercedes Munoz, Duke University
- Hanieh Naeimi, University of Toronto, Canada
- Prsni Patel, Tufts University
- Minh Duc, University of Connecticut
- Sreelakshmi Pushpanadh, The Pennsylvania State University
- Keturah P, Tufts University
- Alyssa Ream, Claremont Graduate University
- Moses Rivera, University of Central Florida
- Jordan Rubin-McGregor, Miami University
- Maegan Ruiz, Washington University in St. Louis
- Ryan Sabillo, UCLA
- Sakshi Sahakari, University of British Columbia
- Da'Quallon Smith, London School of Economics
- Shree Vallabha, Michigan State University
- Melissa Vega, New York University and New York University Abu Dhabi
- Zizhong (David), University of Maryland, College Park
2022
- Beyzanur Arican Dinc, San Francisco State University
- Eun Young Bae, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- Raegan Bishop, University of Southern Mississippi
- Eboni S Bradley, Purdue University
- Xanni Brown, Yale University
- Edward Chou, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Stefano Ciaffoni, University of Bologna
- Jada Copeland, Tufts University
- Junix Jerald Intal Delos Santos, Ateneo de Manila University
- Nina Dours, Claremont Graduate University
- Emily Esposito, University of California, Riverside
- Mackenzie Ess, Syracuse University
- Grace Flores-Robles, CUNY Graduate Center
- Maria Michelle Garay, Tufts University
- Kanvarbir Gill, University of Oklahoma
- Eliana Hadjiandreou, Penn State University
- James Hillman, Queen's University
- Ali Javeed, New York University
- Mary Kruk, RAINN
- Katelin E Leahy, Michigan State University
- Messi H.J. Lee, Washington University in St.Louis
- Tara Lesick, Florida State University
- Sharon Li, Purdue University
- Henry Noel Lopez, Iowa State University
- Julisa Jessica Lopez, University of Michigan
- Ekim Luo, University of Cambridge
- José Leon Martínez, Florida State University
- William Bradford Meese, University of California, Merced
- Luke Nicholls, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Tamara Niella, University of Oregon
- Flora Everest Oswald, Penn State University
- Joseph Pang, Humboldt State University
- McKenzie Preston, University of Pennsylvania
- Ishika Ray, University of Washington
- Jesse Sandhu Reid, University of Toronto
- Apoorva Sarmal, University of Georgia
- Jillian Rae Silva-Jones, University of Kentucky
- Balbir Singh, University of Colorado Boulder
- Marquetta Ieisha Strait, Purdue University
- Adam V Thomas, Texas Tech University
- Emily Morgan Vance, University of Arkansas
- Preeti Vani, Stanford University
- Kaylen TiAnna Vine, Marquette University
- Emma Ward-Griffin, University of California, Berkeley
- Melisa Williams Ibora, Texas Tech University
- Liz Anne Wilson, University of California - Riverside
- Daniel Yonas, Columbia University
- Denise Zheng, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Wen Zhou, Duke Kunshan University
2021 Convention
- Brittany Torrez, Yale University
- Julian Andrew Scheffer, Penn State University
- Minghui Ni, Cornell University
- Aisha L Udochi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Sherman (Shiu Man) Kwok, University of Waterloo
- Mr. Connor Emont Leshner, Arizona State University
- Azaadeh Goharzad, University of Delaware
- Ariana Munoz-Salgado, University of Michigan
- Ms. Gina Aurelia Paganini, University of Denver
- David M. Munguia Gomez, University of Chicago, School of Business
- Yunzhu Ouyang, University of Alberta
- Fahima Mohideen, Rutgers University
- Margaux Wienk, Columbia University
- Zhiying Yue, University at Buffalo
- Flora Everest Oswald, Penn State
- Eyad Jamal Naseralla, Saint Louis University
- Eileen Suh, Boston University
- Gold Okafor, UC Berkeley
- Jeewon Oh, Michigan State University
- Mr. Kevin Chi, Stanford University
- Mr. Maxwell L Mikelic, Adelphi University
- Randy Lee, Cornell University
- Jonathan Trever Ojeda, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2020 Convention
- Desiree Eileen Aleibar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Angel David Armenta, University of Texas at El Paso
- Veronica N.Z. Bergstrom, University of Toronto
- Scott Douglas Blain, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Shauna Marie Bowes, Emory University
- Jessica Renee Bray, University of Texas at El Paso
- Caitlin Cassidy, Villanova University
- Richelle-Joy Chia, Nanyang Technological University
- Yeeun Choi, University of Alabama
- Rebecca Cipollina, Rutgers University
- Andrew Cortopassi, University of Connecticut
- Jordan Daley, Northwestern University
- Diag Davenport, Chicago Booth
- Trisha Ann Dehrone, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Salena Marie Diaz, Radford University
- Mengchen Dong, VU Amsterdam
- Fred Duong, Northeastern University
- Olivia Anne Foster-Gimbel, NYU Stern School of Business
- Azaadeh Goharzad, University of Delaware
- Vanessa Hatton, Rutgers University
- Amani Holder-Dixon, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Sharon H. J. Hou, University of Guelph
- M. Fazuan Abdul Karim, IU-PUI
- Kalen Charles Kennedy, Marquette University
- Rabia Ibrahim Kodapanakkal, Tilburg University
- Mayu Koike, The University of Edinburgh
- Jacqueline Lechuga, UT El Paso
- Hun Whee Lee, Michigan State University
- Joshua Leota, University of Alberta
- Yuching Lin, University of Virginia
- Idalia Veronica Maciel, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Marco Marinucci, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Joel Eduardo Martinez, Princeton University
- Mary Mbaba, George Washington University
- Maria Monroy, UC Berkeley
- Gregg A. Muragishi, Stanford University
- Yee To Ng, The University of Texas at Austin
- Tina Nguyen, The Ohio State University
- Sukhmani Pal, University of Mississippi
- Lindsay Palmer, The Pennsylvania State University
- Jun Won Park, Yale University
- Tiani Perkins, University of Michigan
- Ahuitz Rojas-Sánchez, Université Grenoble-Alpes
- Roberto Josiah Rosario, Northwestern University
- Rammy Moses Salem, UC Santa Barbara
- Jordana Erika Schiralli, University of Toronto
- Danyel Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Mikaela Spruill, Cornell University
- Mehrgol Tiv, McGill University
- Meisam Vahedi, University of Houston
- Juan Jose Valladares, Lehigh University
- Yan Bernardes Vieites, FGV/EBAPE
- Kaidi Wu, University of Michigan
- Nancy Mengran Xu, Ohio State University
- Chunchen Xu, Stanford University
- Ayana Younge, UNC Chapel Hill
- Cheng Yu, San Francisco State University
- Jeanette Zambrano, University of Southern California
- Brittany Zaring-Hinkle, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Tong Zhou, Shanghai Normal University
2019 Convention
- Clifton Adamson, University of Central Arkansas
- Shahana Ansari, University of Hawaii
- Esra Ascigil, University of Michigan
- Maura Austin, University of Virginia
- Jasmine Beecham, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
- Carla Branco, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
- Dominique Burrows, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Anjana Chandran, University of Chicago
- Yen-Ping Chang, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Maneeza Dawood, Columbia Univ.
- Ajua Duker, Yale University
- James Dunlea, Columbia University
- Justin Durham, Univ. of Central Oklahoma
- Holly Fitzgerald, West Virginia University
- Anthony Foster, Texas Tech University
- Maya Godbole, CUNY Graduate Center
- Joyce He, University of Toronto
- Ivan Hernandez, Northwestern University
- Lauren Hofschneider, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ju Hyung Huh, Sogang University
- Hohjin Im, University of California, Irvine
- Zunaira Jilani, Wayne State Univ.
- Minjoo Joo, Iowa State University
- Dashalini Katna, Nanyang Technological University
- Sona Kaur, University of California, Santa Cruz
- James Kim, University of Toronto
- Tran Le, Texas Tech University
- Michelle Lee, New York University
- Randy Lee, Cornell University
- Timothy Lee, University of Kansas
- Angelica Leigh, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Usman Liaquat, New York University
- Kimberly Martin, University of California, Los Angeles
- Thao Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin
- Abigail Nissenbaum, Clark University
- Isabela Perez, University of California Riverside
- Ramona Perry, University of Michigan
- Zachary Reese, Univ. of Michigan
- Abigail Riemer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Celina Romano, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Daniel Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles
- Amanda Rotella, University of Guelph
- Estée Rubien-Thomas, Yale University
- Carmen Sanchez, Cornell Univ.
- Radhika Santhanagopalan, Cornell University
- Surizaday Serrano, University of Houston
- Anoushka Shahane, Rice University
- Adam Stanaland, Duke University
- Kamiya Stewart, Tulane University
- Brenda Straka, Duke University
- Koji Takahashi, University of Michigan
- Sophie Tanaka, UCLA
- Christopher To, NYU - Stern School of Business
- Aeroelay Vinluan, Tufts University
- Hannah Volpert-Esmond, University of Missouri
- Sze Wang, University of Toronto
- Samuel West, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Dulce Wilkinson, University of California, Riverside
- Jinghui Zhang, Claremont Graduate University
2018 Convention
- Jesse Acosta, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
- Audrey Aday, Univ. of British Columbia
- Aerielle Allen, Univ. of Connecticut
- Darlingtina Atakere, Univ. of Kansas
- Vivienne Badaan, NYU
- Lianne Barnes, UCLA
- Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Univ. of Virginia
- Jericka Battle, Texas A&M Univ.
- R. Bjornsdottir, Univ. of Toronto
- Yvana Bocage-Barthélémy, Univ. of Poitiers
- Yen-Ping Chang, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Nathan Cheek, Princeton Univ.
- Susie Chen, Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Adriana Colom Cruz, Florida Atlantic Univ.
- Tzipporah Dang, Univ. of Chicago
- Abdo Elnakouri, Univ. of Waterloo
- Hyun Euh, Univ. of Minnesota
- Katherine Finnigan, UC Davis
- Ana Fonseca, Univ. of Arizona
- Janelle Goodwill, Univ. of Michigan
- Jonathan Gordils, Univ. of Rochester
- Jen Guo, Northwestern Univ.
- Tabea Haessler, Univ. of Zurich
- Breanne Helmers, Wayne State Univ.
- Maria Jones, Emory Univ.
- Victor Keller, Michigan State Univ.
- Danielle Krusemark, Florida State Univ.
- Ebony Lambert, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
- Lynda Lin, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- David Miller, Northwestern Univ.
- Gandalf Nicolas, Princeton Univ.
- Paolo Palma, Univ. of Western Ontario
- Michael Parrish, UCLA
- Kenneth Perez, Texas A&M Univ.
- Pooya Razavi, Univ. of Oregon
- Richard Smith, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Michael Snell, Univ. of Georgia
- Lining Sun, East China Normal Univ., Ohio State Univ., Stanford Univ.
- Sanaz Talaifar, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Brandon Tran, Univ. of California, Riverside
- Nadia Vossoughi, Univ. of Michigan
- Iris Wang, Univ. of Michigan
- Kaitlyn Werner, Carleton Univ.
- Jordan Wylie, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Queens College
- Jiah Yoo, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 Convention
- Rob Adelman, Arizona State University
- Rafael Aguilera, University of Minnesota
- Miriam Alvarez, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
- Maira Areguin, California State University, Northridge
- Jessica Benson, Rutgers University
- Katlin Bentley, Washington University in St. Louis
- Benjamin Blankenship, Univ. of Michigan
- Malik Boykin, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Justin Brienza, Univ. of Waterloo
- Gabriel Camacho, Univ. of Connecticut
- Henri Carlo Santos, Harvard University
- Linda Chang, HKUST
- Karina Corona, University of California, Irvine
- Tangier Davis, CSUN
- Lucy De Souza, University of British Columbia
- John Dennem, New Mexico State Univ.
- Michael Doane, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
- Cydney Dupree, Yale University
- Priscilla Fernandez, Saint Louis Univ.
- Abdiel Flores, Columbia University
- Fiona Ge, Facebook
- Adriana Germano, Univ. of Washington
- Amit Goldenberg, Stanford University
- Eric Gomez, University of Washington Fausto Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
- Fallon Goodman, George Mason Univ.
- Mark Hoffarth, New York University
- Olivia Holmes, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
- Elif Ikizer, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
- Drexler James, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
- Karen Key, San Diego State Univ.
- Tianyi Li, Univ. of Chicago
- Nigel Mantou Lou, Univ. of Alberta
- Asia McCleary-Gaddy, University of Vermont
- Adriana Medina, Clark University
- Pegah Naemi, University of Kansas
- Thuy-vy Nguyen, University of Rochester
- Yopina Pertiwi, University of Toledo
- Miao Qian, University of Toronto
- Yang Qu, Stanford University
- Jeff Ramdass, Claremont Graduate University
- Steven Roberts, Stanford University
- Eric Russell, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
- Henri C. Santos, Univ. of Waterloo
- Heidi Vuletich, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill
- Sarah Ward, Univ. of Missouri - Columbia
- Bradley Weisz, California State Univ., Long Beach
2016 Convention
- Analia Albuja, Rutgers University
- Olivia Atherton, University of California Davis
- Angela Carey, University of Arizona
- Katelynn Carter-Rogers, Maastricht University
- Stephanie Chen, University of Michigan
- Ben Chun Pam Lam, Iowa State University
- Crystal Clarke, New York University
- Stephanie Cross, University of Oklahoma
- Gregory Davis, Harvard University
- Veronica Derricks-Mosher, University of Michigan
- Cameron Doyle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Arianne Eason, University of Washington
- Jim Everett, University of Oxford
- Johanna Folk, George Mason University
- S. Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt University
- Alexandra Garr-Schultz, Northwestern University
- Sa-kiera Hudson, Harvard University
- Pui Hung Hui, University of Cambridge
- Kyonne Isaac, Princeton University
- Morgan Jerald, University of Michigan
- Dushiyanthini Kenthirarajah, Duke University
- Jinhyung Kim, Texas A&M University
- Franki Kung, University of Waterloo
- Jennifer LaCosse, Florida State University
- Sarah Lamer, University of Denver
- Talya Lazerus, Carnegie Mellon University
- David Lee, University of Michigan Ryan Lei, Northwestern University
- Mengyao Li, University of Massachusetts
- Sai Li, University of Cambridge
- Sarah Liu, Personality Aging and Health Lab
- Chieh Lu, Nanyang Technological University
- Guannan (Jackson) Lu, Columbia University
- Heather Maranges, Florida State University
- Satia Marotta, Tufts University
- Kibby McMahon, Duke University
- Yara Mekawi, University of Illinois
- Harrison Oakes, University of Waterloo
- Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, Lehigh University
- Elise Ozier, Indiana University
- Christopher Petsko, Northwestern University
- Stacy Priniski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lindsay Roberts, University of Toledo
- Hadiya Roderique, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- Achala Rodrigo, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Julian Rucker, Northwestern University
- Andrea Ruybal, Claremont Graduate University
- Manuel Salinas, University of Northern Iowa
- Elizabeth Seto, Texas A&M University
- Holly Shablack, University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Natasha Thalla, Lehigh University
- Christopher To, New York University, Stern School of Business
- Phuong Vo, Wayne State University
- Carla Zimmerman, Texas A&M University
For more information on this award, please contact [email protected].
Service to the Field Award
The SPSP Service to the Field Award on Behalf of Personality and Social Psychology is for distinguished efforts by individuals to benefit the field of social and personality psychology generally.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT
Simine Vazire, University of Melbourne
The SPSP Service to the Field Award on Behalf of Personality and Social Psychology is for distinguished efforts by individuals to benefit the field of social and personality psychology generally. These efforts may involve activities to support educational and research activities in the field, professional leadership, and achievements that enhance the reputation of the field. Recipients may be members of the Society or the profession or individuals outside of psychology or academia. The Society recognizes the diversity of activities that may merit this award.
Recipients of this award receive a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention, as well as a complimentary convention registration.
- Mentoring: Excellence, demonstrated through both the number of students being mentored and innovativeness and the impact of practices to support them (e.g., by recognition internally and/or externally). Mentoring of students with backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in academia
- Collaboration: Excellence, demonstrated through sharing best practices with the broader social psychology community (e.g. creating open access to new teaching resources or methods, giving talks on improving teaching practices)
- Service: Innovative contributions to improving the field, demonstrated through spearheading or creating new efforts to improve fields methods (e.g. open science work) or diversity and inclusion (e.g. BLaSPR)
Requirements
- Recipients will have made contributions to the field that may appear in various forms.
Submission Criteria
- A bulleted list detailing the nominee’s contributions to the field.
- Nominee's current vita in electronic format.
Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Applications closed
2022
Scott Plous, Wesleyan University
2021
The Psychological Science Accelerator
2020
Project Implicit
2019
Kellina M. Craig-Henderson, Paula Pietromonaco
2018
Dave Nussbaum
2017
Alison Ledgerwood
2016
In-Mind Foundation
2015
Laura King
2014
2013
2013
Hazel Markus
2012
Claude Steele
2011
Congressman Brian Baird
2010
Ed Diener, David Myers
2009
Mark P. Zanna, Philip G. Zimbardo
2008
John Cacioppo, Robert Cialdini
2007
Charles M. Judd, Harry T. Reis, Eliot R. Smith, Heather O'Beirne Kelly, Karen Studwell
2006
James S. Jackson, Amber Story
2005
Molly Oliveri, Todd Heatherton
2004
Susan Fiske, Gardner Lindzey
2003
Nancy Cantor, Robert Croyle
2002
Steve Breckler, Fred Rhodewalt
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Service to SPSP Award
The SPSP Award for Distinguished Service to the Society recognizes distinguished service specifically to SPSP.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT
Alison Ledgerwood, University of California, Davis
The SPSP Award for Distinguished Service to the Society recognizes distinguished service specifically to SPSP. Distinguished service may be in terms of a particular, significant activity that benefited the Society or cumulative contributions, performed over time, to the Society. The Society recognizes that service comes in many forms, and this award expresses the Society's appreciation of distinctive contributions.
Recipients of this award receive a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention, as well as a complimentary convention registration.
Service: Excellence in supporting service efforts, demonstrated through significant involvement in existing efforts (e.g. chairing SPSP committees), diversity and inclusion efforts (e.g. BLaSPR), and success in making significant and lasting changes to improve the society.
Requirements
- Recipients must be members of SPSP.
- Recipients will have made contributions to the Society that may appear in various forms.
Submission Criteria
- A brief bulleted list detailing the nominee’s contributions to SPSP
- Nominee's current vita in electronic format
Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Applications closed
2022
Wendy Berry Mendes
2021
Patricia G. Devine
2020
Ivuoma Onyeador, Evelyn R. Carter
2019
Jennifer Crocker, Julie Garcia, Diana T. Sanchez, Oz Ayduk, Sam Sommers
2018
Stephanie Fryberg
2017
Stacey Sinclair
2016
Linda Skitka
2015
Susie Schroeder
2014
John Dovidio, Linda Dovidio, Donelson R. Forsyth, Ph.D.
2013
Wendi Gardner, George (Al) Goethals
2012
Monica Biernat, Chris Crandall
2011
Richard Petty, Mark Snyder
2010
David Dunning
2009
Keith Maddox, Theresa K. Vescio (Citations for Service to the Society of Personality and Social Psychology During the Early Career)
2007
Roy F. Baumeister, Dianne M. Tice
2006
Jim Blascovich
2005
Harry Reis
2004
Marilynn Brewer, Chuck Huff, Scott Plous
2003
Martin Chemers, Bibb Latané
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize
The Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize is a prize for a single outstanding contribution that recognizes the author of an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to personality and social psychology within a given year.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT
The Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize recognizes the author of an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to personality and social psychology within a given year.
Any kind of innovative theoretical contribution can be considered for the prize, including presentations of new theories, new theory-based integrations of disparate areas of inquiry, and significant extensions of existing theories to new areas of inquiry. Theoretical contributions are eligible for the prize regardless of whether they appear in stand-alone theoretical papers, within conceptually-based literature reviews, or in some other type of article or book chapter in which conceptual innovation is highlighted.
The Wegner prize recognizes 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. Theoretical contributions may be judged innovative and generative even before they have accumulated substantial empirical support. Therefore, an article may be judged worthy of the prize even if it runs the risk of empirical invalidation in the future. The emphasis of the prize is on a contribution's conceptual innovation and potential to motivate new research and further conceptual investigation, rather than on its current level of empirical support.
Recipients of this award receive a complimentary convention registration and a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention. This award was endowed by support from Worth Publishers through the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology.
- Research: Theoretical advancement, demonstrated through theoretical insight that will have short-term and long-term value to the field
- Research: Published in a high-impact journal and likely to be highly cited
- Quality of writing for the general public: Demonstrated through organization, content, and mechanics of writing
- Recipients are the authors of eligible papers. Eligible papers must have been published in peer-reviewed journals or as book chapters during the calendar year prior to nomination. For example, to be nominated in 2024, the publication must have been printed in calendar year 2023. Papers and chapters still "in press" are not eligible.
Submission Criteria
- An electronic version of the nominated piece (in PDF or .doc format)
- A summary describing how the article fits the Rubric.
- If the nominated piece is a chapter and does not contain an abstract, a 150-word abstract must also be included
Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Applications closed
2022
Psychologically Rich Life: Beyond Happiness and Meaning - Erin Westgate and Shige Oishi
The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary - Thekla Morgenroth and Michelle Ryan
2021
Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases - Sapna Cheryan, Hazel Rose Markus
Worldview Conflict and Prejudice - Mark Brandt, Jarret T. Crawford
2020
Rethinking the nature of cruelty: The role of identity leadership in the Stanford Prison Experiment - Alex Haslam, Stephen Reicher, and Jay Van Bavel
The stigma of perceived irrelevance: An affordance-management theory of interpersonal invisibility - Rebecca Neel and Bethany Lassetter
2019
Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems - Gregory Walton and Timothy Wilson
The behavioral ecology of cultural psychological variation - Oliver Sng, Steven Neuberg, Michael Varnum and Douglas Kenrick
2018
State Authenticity as Fit to Environment: the Implications of Social Identity for Fit, Authenticity, and Self-Segregation - Toni Schmader and Constantine Sedikides
Beyond Sacrificial Harm: A Two-Dimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology - Guy Kahane, Jim Everett, Brian Earp, Lucius Caviola, Nadira Faber, Molly Crockett, Julian Savulescu
2017
The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions - Will Gervais, Joseph Henrich, Rita McNamara, Ara Norenzayan, Azim Shariff, Edward Slingerland, Aiyana Willard
2016
Transactive Goal Dynamics - Gráinne M. Fitzsimons, Eli J. Finkel, and Michelle van Dellen
2015
Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited - Michael Inzlicht, Brandon Schmeichel & C. Neil Macrae
The Positive Consequences of Pain: A Biopsychosocial Approach - Brock Bastian, Jolanda Jetten, Matthew Hornsey & Siri Leknes
2014
Of mice and men: What animal research can tell us about context effects on automatic responses in humans - Bertram Gawronski and Joseph Cesario
Action, outcome, and value: A dual-system framework for morality - Fiery Andrews Cushman
2013
Mind Perception is the Essence of Morality - Kurt Gray, Liane Young & Adam Waytz
2012
The Truth and Bias Model of Judgment - Tessa West & David Kenny
2011
A Metaphor-Enriched Social Cognition - Mark J. Landau, Brian P. Meier & Lucas A. Keefer
2010
When dreaming is believing: The (motivated) interpretation of dreams - Morewedge, C. K.
2009
Thought speed, mood, and the experience of mental motion - Pronin, E. & Jacobs
2008
On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism - Epley, N., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T.
How emotion shapes behavior: Feedback, anticipation, and reflection, rather than direct causation - Baumeister, R. F., Vohs, K. D., DeWall, N., & Zhang, L. (honorable mention)
2007
A theory of unconscious though - Dijksterhuis, A. & Nordgren, L. F.
Optimizing assurance: The risk regulation system in relationships - Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Collins, N. L.
2006
Separating multiple processes in implicit social cognition: The Quad Model of implicit task performance - Conrey, F. R., Sherman, J. W., Gawronski, B., Hugenberg, K., & Groom, C.
Honorable Mention: Attachment, self-esteem, worldviews, and terror management: Evidence for a tripartite security system - Hart, J., Shaver, P., & Goldenberg, J. L.
Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain - MacDonald, G., & Leary, M. R.
2005
Socially situated cognition: Cognition in its social context - Smith, E. R., & Semin, G.
Honorable Mention: Acute stressors and cortisol responses: A theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research - Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E.
2004
Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: The integration of product, person, and process perspectives - Simonton, D. K.
Honorable Mention: Political conservatism as motivated cognition - Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J.
2003
The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology - Jost, J. T., & Hunyady, O.
Embodiment in attitudes, social perception, and emotion - Niedenthal, P. M., Barsalou, L. W., Winkielman, P., Krauth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F.
Reflective and impulsive determinants of social behavior - Strack, F., & Deutsch, R.
2002
Deviance regulation: A theory of action and identity - Blanton, H., & Christie, C.
Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states - Fleeson, W.
Reconceptualizing individual differences in self-enhancement bias: An interpersonal approach - Kwan, V. S. Y., John, O. P., Kenny, D. A., Bond, M. H., & Robins, R. W.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Methodological Innovator Award
The Methodological Innovator Award is a senior career award that recognizes an individual who has made a significant or sustained contribution to innovative methods in social and personality psychology across his or her career. The award recognizes contributions 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.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT
Delroy Paulhus, University of British Columbia
The Methodological Innovator Award is a senior career award that recognizes an individual who has made a significant or sustained contribution to innovative methods in personality and social psychology across his or her career. The award recognizes contributions 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.
Any kind of innovative methodological contribution (including developments of new methods, including analytic methods; innovative applications of existing methods; and creative application of methods from other fields), regardless of the format of the contribution, can be considered as evidence for the award.
Contributions by an individual could include articles, papers, book chapters, books, websites, pieces of software or hardware, symposia, or other inventions created or released and judged to be innovative.
The award is made in recognition of a record of sustained contributions in one or several areas.
Methodological contributions may be judged innovative and generative even before they have generated substantial empirical findings. The emphasis of the award is on a contribution's conceptual innovation and potential to motivate new research and further conceptual investigation.
Recipients of this award receive up to $1000 in travel ($1500 International), complimentary convention registration, up to three hotel nights at the convention hotel, and a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention.
- Research: Theoretical advancement, demonstrated through highly influential work that clearly demonstrates adding to the field (through citations, grants, paper awards, or other metrics). This award is intended for individuals whose career contributions are outstanding, but do not fit neatly within the prototypical social or personality research areas.
- Research: Methodological advancement, demonstrated through exceptional contribution to methodological innovation (e.g., analysis tool, statistical approach, recruitment technique) or improvement.
- Research: Scholarly leadership, demonstrated through an exceptional ability to effectively lead and collaborate in diverse research team(s) (based on identities, multi-site, international, across career stages, and/or multidisciplinary, etc.)
Requirements
- Recipients are the creators of sustained innovative methodological contributions (including developments of new methods, including analytic methods; innovative applications of existing methods; and creative application of methods from other fields) across their careers.
- Contributions by an individual could include articles, papers, book chapters, books, websites, pieces of software or hardware, symposia, or other inventions created or released and judged to be innovative.
Submission Criteria
- A brief summary detailing how the nominee has made a significant or sustained contribution to innovative methods in social and personality psychology
- Nominee's current vita in electronic format with a list of publications.
- Recipient should not have previously been awarded an SPSP senior career award (these include the Block Award, Campbell Award, Distinguished Scholar Award, Career Contribution Award, Methodological Innovator Award, and Application Award).
Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Applications closed
2021
Deborah Kashy
2020
Sam Gosling
2019
Niall Bolger
2018
Elaine Hatfield
2017
James Blascovich
2016
Dr. Charles (Chick) Judd
2015
Robert Rosenthal, Ph.D.
2014
James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D.
2013
Anthony Greenwald
2012
David Kenny
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Distinguished Scholar Award
The Distinguished Scholar Award is a senior career award that recognizes the broad scope and potentially integrative nature of scholarship in personality and social psychology. It honors a scholar who has made distinctively valuable research contributions across his or her career that bridge personality and social psychology or bridge personality or social psychology to another field (ie. law, education, organizations, or medicine). It is intended for individuals whose career contributions are outstanding, but do not fit neatly within the prototypical social or personality research areas.
Started in 2011, the Distinguished Scholar Award is a senior career award that recognizes the broad scope and potentially integrative nature of scholarship in personality and social psychology. It honors a scholar who has made distinctively valuable research contributions across his or her career that bridge personality and social psychology or bridge personality or social psychology to another field (ie. law, education, organizations, or medicine). It is intended for individuals whose career contributions are outstanding, but do not fit neatly within the prototypical social or personality research areas.
Recipients of this award receive up to $1000 in travel ($1500 International), complimentary convention registration, up to three hotel nights at the convention hotel, and a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention. The recipient will also give an address in a special plenary session (along with the Block Award and Campbell Award recipients).
- Research: Theoretical advancement, demonstrated through highly influential work that clearly demonstrates adding to the field (through citations, grants, paper awards, or other metrics). This award is intended for individuals whose career contributions are outstanding, but do not fit neatly within the prototypical social or personality research areas.
- Research: Methodological advancement, demonstrated through exceptional contribution to methodological innovation (e.g., analysis tool, statistical approach, recruitment technique) or improvement.
- Research: Scholarly leadership, demonstrated through an exceptional ability to effectively lead and collaborate in diverse research team(s) (based on identities, multi-site, international, across career stages, and/or multidisciplinary, etc.)
Requirements
- Recipients are scholars who have made distinctively valuable research contributions across his or her career in areas that bridge personality and social psychology or bridge personality or social psychology to another field (ie. law, education, organizations, or medicine).
Submission Criteria
- A brief summary detailing the nominee’s career contributions that bridge personality and social psychology or bridge personality or social psychology to another field (ie. law, education, organizations, or medicine).
- Nominee's current vita in electronic format with a list of publications.
- Recipient should not have previously been awarded an SPSP senior career award (these include the Block Award, Campbell Award, Distinguished Scholar Award, Career Contribution Award, Methodological Innovator Award, and Application Award).
Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Applications closed
2022
David Winter
2021
Robert Sellers
2020
Judith Harackiewicz, Janet E. Helms
2019
2018
Craig A. Anderson
2017
Teresa M. Amabile
2016
Kay Deaux
2015
Phillip Shaver, Ph.D.
2014
Edward L. Deci, Ph.D.
2013
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
2012
James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
