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)     

Distinguished scientific awards for an early career contribution to psychology: 1987.

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 in 198 7 were human learning and cognition, psychopathology and physiological and biological. Every year, panels ate selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. Marshall Haith, chair of the committee, presented each winner with a check and a citation recognizing his contribution. Other committee members were Lyn Abramson, Patricia Carpenter, Brenda Milner, Mary Tenopyr, and Mark Zanna. The panel members for 1987 were Alice F. Healy, James H. Neely, and Douglas Nelson for human learning and cognition; Paul H. Blaney, Michael J. Goldstein, and Peter M. Lewinsohn for psychopathology; and Norman Adler, Darcy B. Kelley, and James B. Ranck for physiological and biological. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished scientific awards for an early career contribution to psychology: 1989.

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 1989 were social, sensation and perception, and applied research. The citations, biographies, and selected bibliographies for the 1989 awardees are presented here. (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 2008 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 2008 recipients are John J. Curtin (psychopathology), Elissa S. Epel (health psychology), Linda C. Gallo (health psychology), Samuel D. Gosling (animal learning and behavior, comparative), Jodi A. Quas (developmental psychology), and Joshua B. Tenenbaum (cognition and human learning). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Early Career Awards for 1978.

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 be more than 8 years post-PhD. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into nine areas (human learning/cognition, psychopathology, physiological, animal, personality, developmental, methodological, social, and sensation/perception), and the awards are given in 3-year cycles. The awards for 1978 were given in the areas of human learning/cognition, psychopathology, and physiological psychology. Every year panels are selected for the three areas in which the award is to be given, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The panels for this year were Lyle E. Bourne (Chair), Donald A. Norman, and Michael I. Posner for human learning/cognition; Philip S. Holzman (Chair), John M. Neale, and Gordon L. Paul for psychopathology; and Richard F. Thompson (Chair), Robert L. Isaacson, and Patricia M. Meyer for physiological psychology. (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)     

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: James Patrick Connell.

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 recipient in the developmental area is James Patrick Connell. Connell is cited for his use of sophisticated analytic procedures to explicate rich, complex representations of developmental changes and individual differences in motivational processes across the life span. He has proposed a reconceptualization of attachment-system functioning and presented a new component-process approach for examining parent-infant attachment data. In addition to the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of Connell's works are included. (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)     

Early Career Awards for 1977.

The three recipients of the Early Career Award, given for the first time in 1974, were drawn from the fields of psychopathology, human learning/cognition, and physiological psychology. The Committee on Scientific Awards postponed giving the award in 1975 in the fields of developmental, personality, and animal learning because several of the panels did not reach consensus on nominees. Therefore, the recipients for 1976 were drawn from those fields. The awards for 1977 were given in the areas of methodological, sensation/perception, and social psychology. Recipients of this award may not be more than 8 years post-PhD and are drawn from different areas on a rotating basis. In 1975 the awards will again be given in psychopathology, human learning/cognition, and physiological psychology. Every year a panel will be selected for each field in order to recommend a slate of nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The panels for this year were Lewis R. Goldberg (Chair), Barry E. Collins, and E. Belvin Williams for methodological; Julian Hochberg (Chair), Robert M. Boynton, and Richard M. Held for sensation/perception; and John M. Darley (Chair), Leonard Berkowitz, and Alice Hendrickson Eagly for social. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: Barbara Bardman Smuts.

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 recipient in the area of animal learning, behavior, and ethology is Barbara Bardman Smuts. Smuts is cited for outstanding research devoted to the analysis of social relationships among free-living primates. In these studies, she has opened new vistas to understanding the nature of cooperative as well as conflictual social relationships, male-female friendships and long-term affiliations outside the mating context, and male-infant relationships—documenting their existence, describing their social dynamics, exploring their evolutionary significance, and thereby illuminating human social relationships. In addition to the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of the works published by Smuts are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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)     

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.

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 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 1997 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. The awardees for this year (1997) are: Seth C. Kalichman (health); Dare A. Baldwin (developmental); Mark S. Blumberg (animal learning/behavior/comparative); Thomas N. Bradbury (psychopathology); and Michael J. Tarr (human learning/cognition). Citations, biographies, and selected bibliographies for each of the awardees are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 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)     

Early Career Awards for 1976.

The three recipients of the Early Career Award, given for the first time in 1974, were drawn from the fields of psychopathology, human learning/cognition, and physiological psychology. The awards were scheduled to be given in 1975 to persons from the fields of developmental, personality, and animal learning. The Committee on Scientific Affairs, however, decided not to present the award that year because several panels did not reach consensus on nominees. Therefore, the recipients for 1976 were drawn from those three fields, and the cutoff date of 1967 was retained. Ordinarily, recipients of this award may not be more than eight years post-PhD. Next year the three recipients will be selected from the fields of methodological, social, and sensation/perception, and then the nine fields will be rotated again. Every year a panel will be selected for each field in order to recommend a slate of nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The panels for this year were Richard L. Solomon (Chair), Donald Blough, and John Garcia for Animal Learning; Julian Rotter (Chair), Harrison Gough, and Walter Mischel for Personality; and Wendell Jeffrey (Chair), James Birren, and John Flavell for Developmental. The Award Winners for this year were Sandra Lipsitz Bem, Rochel S. Gelman, and Martin E. P. Seligman. Each recipient received an engrossed citation specifying the work for which he or she was being cited and a check for $500. The awards were presented by Richard F. Thompson, Chair of the Committee on Scientific Awards, at the APA Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2004 award winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citations, biographies, and selected papers of the 2004 recipients of the APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Sheldon Cohen, E. Mavis Hetherington, and Richard M. Shiffrin), the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (Edward Taub), and the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Edith Chen, Gregory E. Miller, Elena L. Grigorenko, Thomas G. O'Connor, Jenny R. Saffran, Eric Stice, and Klaus Zuberbühler). The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. 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 2004 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health;. cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Presents the winners of the American Psychological Association's Early Career Awards for 1996. Recipients of this award may not have held a PhD for more than 9 yrs. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 8 areas: cognition and human learning, psychopathology, health, developmental, applied research/psychometrics, social/personality, perception/motor performance, and behavioral neuroscience/animal learning and behavior. Four areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in 2-yr cycles. The winners are Mark Gluck (behavioral neuroscience/animal learning and behavior), Lee Jussim (social/personality), David Lubinski (applied research/psychometrics), and Caroline Palmer (perception/motor performance). Their accomplishments are cited and biographies are provided. The winners since the establishment of the award are also listed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1980.

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 be more than eight years post-PhD. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into nine areas (human learning/cognition, psychopathology, physiological, animal, personality, developmental, methodological, social, and sensation/perception), and the awards are given in three-year cycles. The awards for 1980 were given in the areas of methodological, social, and sensation/perception psychology. Every year panels are selected for the three areas in which the award is to be given, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. Awardees included Baruch Fischhoff, Lynn A. Cooper, Shelley Taylor, and Camille Wortman. A citation and brief biography is presented for each award recipient. (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)