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: 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)     

Awards for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training.

These awards are given by the Board of Educational Affairs in recognition of the efforts of psychologists who have made distinguished contributions to education and training, who have produced imaginative innovations, or who have been involved in the developmental phases of programs in education and training in psychology. Each year one of these two awards is presented. The Distinguished Career Contributions Award recognizes continuous significant contributions made over a lifelong career in psychology; the Distinguished Contributions Award recognizes a more specific contribution to education and training. Award winners from 1987-2005 are listed. This year the Education and Training Awards Committee nominated two psychologists for the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training. This document includes the citations presented to the award winners of the 2005 APA Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of the award winners accompany each citation. If an address was delivered, the award winner's address to the 113th annual APA Convention is also published. The award winners were John C. Norcross and Irma Serrano-García. Norcross delivered an address entitled The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy: Educating and Developing Psychologists (see record 2005-14550-025). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2006 Award Winners: Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the American Psychological Association 2006 Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Highlighted are the 2006 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Michael Davis, Marcia K. Johnson, and Martin E. P. Seligman; the 2006 winner of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology, Joseph Campbell; and the 2006 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, Mark G. Baxter, Theodore P. Beauchaine, Angela Bryan, Seth D. Pollak, Brian J. Scholl, and Anthony D. Wagner. Citations, brief profiles, and selected bibliographies of the award winners are included. If an award winner presented an address at the 114th APA Convention, the address is also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the 2004 APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. A list of the members of the APA committee who selected the recipients for this year and a list of the previous recipients of this award from 1974 through 2004 are provided. The award recipients for 2004 are Edith Chen, Gregory E. Miller, Elena L. Grigorenko, Thomas G. O'Connor, Jenny R. Saffran, Eric Stice, and Klaus Zuberbühler. The award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography of each award recipient are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2003 Award Winners.

Presents the 2003 APA Awards. Awards are given in the following categories: Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology, Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Edwin B. Newman Award, Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, Contributions to Applications of Psychology in Education and Training, and Contributions to Applied Research. Included are lists of members of the various APA committees who selected the award recipients, lists of previous awardees, and award citations, biographies, selected bibliographies and award addresses for the 2003 award winners. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

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 nine years. The areas considered in 1991 were animal learning and behavior, developmental, and personality. The winners for 1991 were Kent C. Berridge, Susan A. Gelman, and Randy J. Larsen. For each winner a citation, biography, and selected bibliography of their works are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

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. Award winners from 1956-2005 are listed. Also included here are the citations awarded to the 2005 APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of each award winner is included. If an address was delivered, the award winner's address to the 113th annual APA Convention is also published. The award winners were Charles G. Gross, Douglas L. Medin, and Robert S. Siegler. Gross delivered an address entitled Processing the Facial Image: A Brief History (see record 2005-14550-003). Siegler delivered an address entitled Children's Learning (see record 2005-14550-006). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2009 award winners: Distinguished Contributions to the Public Interest.

Announces the 2009 recipients of the Distinguished Contributions to the Public Interest awards. This winners of the Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest are Keith N. Humphreys, who received the Early Career Award, and Beverly Greene. The winners of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy are Charlotte J. Patterson and Laurence Steinberg, who shared the award. For each winner, a citation, biography, and selected bibliography are presented. In addition, a version of the award address that the recipient presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention 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.

Presents the winners of the American Psychological Association's Early Career Awards for 1994. 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 eight areas: cognition and human learning, psychopathology, health, developmental, applied research/psychometrics, social/personality, perception/motor performance, and biopsychology/animal learning and behavior. Four areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The winners are Patricia G. Devine (social/personality), Cheri Ostroff (applied research/psychometrics), Daniel J. Povinelli (biopsychology/animal behavior), and Steven Yantis (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.

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)     

Awards for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology recognizes the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. The winners for 2010 are: Stanley B. Floresco; Peter J. Gianaros; Mara Mather; Simona Ghetti; Larissa K. Samuelson; Benjamin L. Hankin; and Matthew K. Nock. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2005 Award Winners: Distinguished Contributions to the Public Interest.

Gathers together all of the 2005 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Contributions to the Public Interest that were presented at the 113th APA Convention in Washington, DC. Citations given to award winners for the specific Awards under this group are published together here. Brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (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)     

2005 Award Winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Gathers together all of the 2005 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions that were presented at the 113th APA Convention in Washington, DC. Citations given to award winners for the specific Awards under this group are published together here. Brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2005 Award Winners: Distinguished International Contributions.

Gathers together all of the 2005 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished International Contributions that were presented at the 113th APA Convention in Washington, DC. Citations given to award winners for the specific Awards under this group are published together here. Brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (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)     

2006 Award Winners.

Presents the 2006 American Psychological Association Awards, which were given at the 114th APA Convention in Washington, DC. The following awards categories were presented: Distinguished Scientific Contributions; Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology; Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology; Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest; Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy; Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology; Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award; Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research; Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector; Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector; Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology; Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology; and the International Humanitarian Award. Citations given to winners of each award are offered here, and brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2005 Award Winners: Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training.

Gathers together all of the 2005 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training that were presented at the 113th APA Convention in Washington, DC. Citations given to award winners for the specific Awards under this group are published together here. Brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)