Congratulations to the Recipients of SPSP’s Diversity, Mentoring, and Service Awards

SPSP is proud to announce the recipients of our Diversity, Mentoring, and Service Awards. This group represents a wide variety of psychologists who have each made significant contributions to our field. Please join us in congratulating them!

Diversity

Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion

The Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion recognizes a faculty member who has had a direct and significant impact on the representation and experiences of underrepresented individuals in social and personality psychology and/or the broader community.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, Markus Brauer, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mentoring

Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence

The Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence is a teaching and mentoring award that honors a personality or social psychologist who has demonstrated a career-long commitment to fostering the professional and intellectual development of students and early career researchers. This 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.

The award is named in memory of Nalini Ambady, who was widely known for her dedicated mentoring of undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, David Dunning, of the University of Michigan.

Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award

This teaching and mentoring award was designed to recognize excellence in teaching and mentoring among faculty at colleges and universities that do not have Ph.D. programs in social and/or personality psychology. The award is open to faculty at community colleges and those whose teaching is primarily online.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, Terry Pettijohn, of Coastal Carolina University.

Service

SPSP Award for Distinguished Service to the Society

The SPSP Award for Distinguished Service to the Society recognizes distinguished service specifically to SPSP.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, Wendy Berry Mendes, of the University of California, San Francisco.

Service to the Field Award on Behalf of Personality and Social Psychology

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.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, Scott Plous, of Wesleyan University.