Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1984.

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 eight years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into nine areas: human learning/cognition, psychopathological, physiological, animal behavior, personality, developmental, social, sensation/perception, and applied research. Three areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in three-year cycles. The areas considered for awards in 1984 were human learning/cognition, psychopathological, and physiological. This year's winners are Kenneth A. Dodge, Marta Kutas, and Steven Pinker. For each award recipient a citation, biography, and bibliography are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: Steven Pinker.

The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a PhD for more than eight years. For 1984, Steven Pinker is recognized for distinguished work from both cerebral hemispheres. Using imaginative methods, he has studied the representation of three-dimensional space in visual imagery and the distribution of attention over that space. In language acquisition he has formulated explicit theories motivated by language universals and by the best established facts of language development. His book, Language learnability and language development, is a landmark in a challenging branch of psychological science. In addition to the citation, a biography and bibliography of Pinker's works are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology 1986: Philip E. Tetlock.

The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Three areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in three-year cycles. The areas considered for awards in 1986 were social, sensation and perception, and applied research. Philip E. Tetlock is one of the 1986 recipients of the award "for the building of interdisciplinary bridges between social psychology and other social sciences; for a creative use of alternative research methods; for penetrating analyses of basic theoretical issues in social psychology, such as the tension between cognitive and motivational explanations or between impression management and intrapsychic explanations; for insightful work on the policy relevance of social psychological research; and in particular, for the place of political reasoning and rhetoric in actual policymaking settings. His reviews, integrations, and penetrating analyses of the theoretical issues in social psychology combine an originality, a clarity, and a thoughtfulness in the service of the profession." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1988.

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. The recipients of the awards are Barbara Boardman Smuts, James Patrick Connell, and David M. Buss. For each awardee a citation, biography, and selected bibliography of their published works are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1982.

Announces that Richard N. Aslin, David S. Krantz, and Martha K. McClintock have received the APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1982) in the areas of developmental, personality, and animal psychology respectively. Biographical information, award citations, and bibliographies are provided for each recipient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Announces the winners of the 2000 Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. This year's winners are Alan J. Christensen, Robert L. Goldstone, Thomas E. Joiner, Dario Maestripieri, Jeffrey G. Parker, and Karen Wynn. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography are provided for each recipient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

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. The specific areas considered in 2005 were behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Award winners from 1974-2005 are listed. This document includes the citations awarded to the 2005 APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of each award winner accompany each citation. The award winners were Albert Jan (Ap) Dijksterhuis, Günther Knoblich, Robert F. Krueger, Hendree E. Jones, Fredrick P. Morgeson, and Russell A. Poldrack. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology 1986: David R. Williams.

The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Three areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in three-year cycles. The areas considered for awards in 1986 were social, sensation and perception, and applied research. David R. Williams is one of the 1986 recipients of the award because his "research epitomizes the power of psychological experiments to reveal the links between visual perception and its physiological and anatomical substrates. His many distinguished contributions to date include mapping the distribution of the cones sensitive to short wavelengths, including psychophysical identification of individual cones; measurements of the density, size, and other aspects of the packing of cones in the living eye, and the consequent limits each imposes on the eye's resolving power; measurement of the spectral sensitivities of cones by a novel method; and invention and imaginative use of a visual interferometer of revolutionary design." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the citations, biographies, and selected bibliographies of the 2007 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. 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 areas considered in 2007 were behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The 2007 recipients are J?rn Diedrichsen (perception/motor performance); R. Chris Fraley (individual differences); Robert D. Gray (applied psychology); Matthew D. Lieberman (social); and Patrik O. Vuilleumier (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: Mark Gluck.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Mark Gluck, one of the 1996 recipients of the APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (in Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning and Behavior). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology 1986: Steven Penrod.

The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Three areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in three-year cycles. The areas considered for awards in 1986 were social, sensation and perception, and applied research. Steven Penrod is one of the 1986 recipients of the award "for distinguished and original contributions to research on legal decision making. His studies have significantly advanced our understanding of the relationship between rules of evidence and procedure and jury decision making, the reliability of eyewitness evidence, and the behavior of attorneys and judges. His research program reflects a deep understanding of the law; an imaginative application of psychological theories to legal questions; and a mastery of research methodology, ranging from mathematical and computer modeling to laboratory and field experimentation. His research exemplifies the best qualities of applied research: It speaks authoritatively to both the psychological and legal communities and has yielded both theoretical and practical insights into decision making." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: Marta Kutas.

The Early Career Awards recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a PhD for more than eight years. Marta Kutas is one of the recipients of the 1984 award. Kutas is cited for outstanding research on the physiology of human cognition and language. Her innovative studies of event-related brain potentials have clarified mechanisms of sensory-motor performance and decision making and have opened new avenues for probing the organization of language in the brain. She has shown how electrophysiological measures can reveal the timing of semantic analyses during reading and the operation of semantic priming and memory mechanisms. In addition, she has elucidated the role of contextual factors in language comprehension. This work constitutes a landmark for demonstrating the value of combined physiological/behavioral approaches to the analysis of human thought and language. In addition to the citation, a biography and bibliography of Kutas' works are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the 2002 winners of the American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. 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 areas considered in 2002 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lynn A. Cooper: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1980.

Provides the biography of Lynn A. Cooper and announces that she has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1980) for her incisive investigations of the nature and individual variation of the internal processes of visual representation, transformation, and comparison by means of which we identify, discriminate, and prepare for external objects and events. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Baruch Fischhoff: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1980.

Provides the biography of Baruch Fischhoff and announces that he has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1980) for successfully bringing psychological methodology to bear on a wide range of basic and applied problems. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2006 Award Winners: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. 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 areas considered in 2006 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. This document lists the winners of these awards from 1974 to 2006, and provides the citations, brief profiles, and bibliographies for the 2006 recipients, Mark G. Baxter, Theodore P. Beauchaine, Angela Bryan, Seth D. Pollak, Brian J. Scholl, and Anthony D. Wagner. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1986.

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 eight 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 for awards in 1986 were social, sensation and perception, and applied research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Camille Wortman: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1980.

Provides the biography of Camille Wortman and announces that she has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1980) for her contributions to the study of coping and adaptation in victims of uncontrollable and undesirable life events, and for enriching social psychological theory and research by bringing it to bear on an exciting range of real-life problems with important clinical implications. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Richard N. Aslin: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Provides the biography of Richard N. Aslin, and announces that he has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1982) for insightful and incisive contributions to the genesis of infant perception; for exquisite studies on the development of the saccadic, the smooth pursuit, and the accommodative systems; for allowing us an early glimpse of the third dimension through his seminal experiments on the development of the vergence system and stereopsis; and for elucidating the properties of infant speech perception and exploding some myths concerning adult speech perception. The award citation and a bibliography are also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David S. Krantz: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Provides the biography of David S. Krantz, and announces that he has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1982) for outstanding and innovative research on mechanisms underlying behavior and health; and for illuminating how personality and social psychological processes have concomitant effects upon behavior and physiology. The award citation and a bibliography are also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)