The Society of Personality and Social Psychology has announced winners in its annual Awards of Excellence program
Senior Career Contribution Awards
Block Award: Andrew J. Elliot, University of Rochester
Campbell Award: Michael Hogg, Claremont Graduate University
Career Contribution Award: Gerald Clore, University of Virginia; Wendy Wood, University of Southern California
Distinguished Scholar Award: Robert Sellers, University of Michigan
Methodological Innovator Award: Deborah A. Kashy, Michigan State University
Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award: Lisa M. Diamond, University of Utah
Mid-Career Awards
Diener Award in Personality Psychology: Simine Vazire, University of Melbourne
Diener Award in Social Psychology: Bertram Gawronski, University of Texas at Austin
Early Career Awards
SAGE Emerging Scholar Award: William J. Brady, Yale University; Tyler James Jimenez, University of Washington; Jessie Sun, University of Pennsylvania; Sarah Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award: Cydney H. Dupree, Yale University; Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent; Erika Hall, Emory University; Michael Muthukrishna, London School of Economics; Ivuoma Ngozi Onyeador, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Teaching and Mentoring Awards
Ambady Award For Mentoring Excellence: Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University
Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award: Leigh Ann Vaughn, Ithaca College
Prizes for a Single Outstanding Contribution
Cialdini Prize: Jane Risen, University of Chicago; Juliana Schroeder, UC Berkeley; Shannon Michelle White, University of Chicago - When “Enemies” Become Close: Relationship Formation Among Palestinians and Jewish Israelis at a Youth Camp
Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize: Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington and Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University - Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases; Mark Brandt, Michigan State University and Jarret T. Crawford, The College of New Jersey - Worldview Conflict and Prejudice
Media Awards
Book Prize: Michael McCullough, UC San Diego - The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
Diversity Awards
Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion: Keith B. Maddox, Tufts University
Service Awards
Service to the Society: Patricia G. Devine, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Service on Behalf of Social and Personality Psychology: The Psychological Science Accelerator, represented by Nicholas A. Coles
Student Awards
Heritage Dissertation Research Awards: Sharlene Fernandes, Georgia State University; Katherine Lawson, University of California, Davis; Brenda Straka, Duke University; Sze Yuh Nina Wang, University of Toronto
Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award: Marielena Barbieri, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Aldo M. Barrita, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Sakshi Ghai, University of Cambridge; Jeanean Buenafe Naqvi, Carnegie Mellon University; Apoorva Sarmal, University of Georgia; Richard Edgar Smith, II, University of Michigan; Brittany Rae Torrez, Yale University
