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:

  • Analia Albuja, Northeastern University
  • Mohammad Atari, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Nathan Cheek, Purdue University
  • Tobias Ebert, University of St. Gallen
  • Adriana Germano, Columbia University
  • Sa-kiera Hudson, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
  • Katie Kroeper, Sacred Heart University
  • Meltem Yucel, Duke University

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:

  • Jin Goh, Colby College
  • Benedek Kurdi, Yale University
  • Veronica Lamarche, University of Essex
  • Jessica Maxwell, McMaster University
  • Roseanna Sommers, University of Michigan
  • Emily Willroth, Washington University in St. Louis

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 winner — Kate McLean of Western Washington University!

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 — Brooke Feeney of Carnegie Mellon University!