Early Career Awards for 1974.

Announces the recipients of the Early Career Awards, presented for the first time in 1974. This year's recipients were drawn from the fields of psychopathology, human learning/cognitive, and physiological psychology. The awards were presented to Norman T. Adler, John M. Neale, and Michael Turvey. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: John J. Curtin.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for John J. Curtin, one of the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Deanna M. Barch: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Announces Deanna M. Barch as a recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Barch received this award for research on the relationship between clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological disturbances in schizophrenia. Using behavioral methods, functional neuroimaging, and computational modeling, her work has taken ideas from basic research on the function of prefrontal cortex and used these to dissect the specific contribution that prefrontal deficits make to cognitive abnormalities in attention, memory, and language in schizophrenia and their expression as clinical symptoms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nancy M. Petry: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Provides the biography of Nancy M. Petry and announces that she has won the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for groundbreaking work on the problem of gambling and substantial contributions to the treatment of other addictive behaviors. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Marvin M. Chun: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Announces Marvin M. Chun as a recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Chun received this award for research on attention, memory, and learning. His research highlights the importance of memory and learning in perception, showing how one's experiences in the world determine how one sees it. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Early Career Awards for 1978: Philip M. Groves.

Philp M. Groves earned an Early Career Award for his outstanding research and theoretical contributions to biological psychology. Groves's early work with Thompson on the neuronal mechanism of habituation and sensitization in the spinal cord and his later empirical and theoretical extensions of this work to the intact animal constitute a major advance in our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying these simple forms of animal learning. His recent conceptualization of a new mechanism of action of amphetamine and the antipsychotic drugs illustrates a high degree of creativity, flexibility, and independence of thought. This work is a significant contribution to our knowledge of the synaptic mechanisms underlying the effects of amphetamine on the brain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: David M. Buss.

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a PhD for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into nine areas: human learning and cognition, psychopathology, physiological animal learning and behavior, personality, developmental social sensation and perception, and applied research. Three areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in three-year cycles. The areas considered in 1988 were animal learning, behavior, and ethology; personality; and developmental. This year's winner in the area of personality is David M. Buss. Buss is cited for the theoretical breadth and empirical depth of his work, which are exemplars of the personological tradition in psychology and for his act-frequency approach to the analysis of personality dispositions, which, by combining a summary interpretation of traits with recent advances in cognitive psychology, has yielded a steadily developing agenda of research in personality and a fresh perspective on central issues of the field. Along with the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of Buss's published works are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John T. Cacioppo: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Announces John T. Cacioppo as a recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Cacioppo received this award for his pioneering research within social psychology and within psychophysiology, and especially for bringing these worlds together. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Early Career Awards for 1978: John Robert Anderson.

John Robert Anderson was awarded an Early Career Award for contributions concerning development of theoretical models of mental processes involved in language acquisition, comprehension, and language use. He shows how human memory might be organized according to declarative and procedural knowledge and how this knowledge might be used when we understand a sentence, verify it, learn its content, search memory and answer questions about it, draw implications from it, and plan and execute effective actions based on it. Anderson's ideas are translated into computer programs that simulate the behavior of interest. Alongside his theorizing, he has carried on a vigorous program of experimentation that evaluates and forwards his theorizing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lisa M. Savage: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Announces Lisa M. Savage as a recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Savage received this award for an integrated analysis of dementia--from biological causation, to anatomy, to psychopharmacology of memory, to behavioral remediation of amnestic deficits in animal models, to therapeutic interventions with patients. She also developed fully an animal model of a human cognitive disease process, Korsakoff syndrome, and, using that model, developed a behavioral variation in training as a remedial intervention to disease-caused memory deficits. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific applications of psychology: John L. Holland.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for John L. Holland, the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Robert M. Nosofsky.

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Robert M. Nosofsky, one of the 1993 recipients of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Cognition/Human Learning), are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John P. Campbell: Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.

Presents the citation for John P. Campbell who received Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology "for his many different contributions to the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John D. Krumboltz: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge.

Announces John D. Krumboltz as the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Krumboltz received this award for his contributions to behavioral and career counseling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

M. Brewster Smith.

This article acknowledges M. Brewster Smith, the winner of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Samuel D. Gosling.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Samuel D. Gosling, one of the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Joshua B. Tenenbaum.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Joshua B. Tenenbaum, one of the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Linda C. Gallo.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Linda C. Gallo, one of the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Claude M. Steele: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Announces that Claude M. Steele has won the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions for profoundly illuminating theoretical and empirical contributions to social psychology. Claude M. Steele also received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. His biography and selected bibliography can be found under the latter award. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Monica R. Biernat: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

This article discusses the life and work of Monica R. Biernat, the recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)