SPSP is proud to announce the recipients of our Early- and Mid-Career Awards! Please join us in applauding these researchers for their commitment and contributions to personality and social psychology

Early-Career

SAGE Emerging Scholar Award

In collaboration with SAGE Publications, SPSP offers the SAGE Emerging Scholar Award in order to recognize outstanding achievements by early-career PhD scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field. Please join us in congratulating this year's winners:

  • Olivia E. Atherton, Northwestern University
  • Kimberly Chaney, University of Connecticut
  • Joshua Conrad Jackson, Northwestern University
  • M. Rosie Shrout, Purdue University
  • Beyza Tepe, Bahçeşehir University
  • Linda Zou, University of Maryland, College Park

SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award

In collaboration with SAGE Publications, SPSP offers the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award in recognition of outstanding achievements by early career scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field. Congratulations to this year's winners:

  • Arianne Eason, University of California, Berkeley
  • Calvin Lai, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Jackson Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sandra Matz, Columbia University
  • Ashley Whillans, Harvard Business School

Mid-Career

Diener Award in Personality Psychology

The Carol and Ed Diener Award in Personality Psychology is designed to recognize a mid-career 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.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winners - Brent Donnellan of Michigan State University, and Ozlem Ayduk of the University of California, Berkeley!

Diener Award in Social Psychology

The Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology is designed to recognize a mid-career 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.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winner, Melissa Ferguson of Yale University!