Award Committee
John Cacioppo, Chair
University of Chicago
Axel Cleeremans
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Susan Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago
Madeline Heilman
New York University
James Kalat
North Carolina State University
Beth Meyerowitz
University of Southern California
David Myers
Hope College
Janet Taylor Spence Award
For Transformative Early Career Contributions
Deadline: November 15, 2010
Nominations for the 2010 award are closed.
The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award was established to recognize transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Award announcement
Research contributions can be transformative in various ways, such as the establishment of new approaches or paradigms within a field of psychology, or the development or advancement of research that cuts across fields of psychological science. The common thread is that Award winners should reflect the best of the many new and cutting edge ideas coming out of our most creative and promising investigators who, together, embody the future of psychological science. The Janet Taylor Spence Award will be given yearly at the APS Annual Convention. Up to five awards are expected to be presented each year. The first awards will be conferred at the APS Annual Convention.
Eligibility: Nominees must be members of the Association for Psychological Science and must have completed their PhD within seven years of the date of the annual meeting at which the award would be conferred.
Selection Criteria: Selection criteria include: (1) is the research novel and creative? (2) does the research have the potential to change how we think about psychological science? (3) is the research characterized by rigorous and innovative scientific methods? (4) does the research build upon existing psychological science in scholarly ways? (5) is the research influencing multiple fields of psychological science?
Nominations should be submitted to awards@psychologicalscience.org and should include a letter of nomination, the nominee's current CV, electronic reprints or links to the nominee's work, indicating the most important contributions to psychological science, and two letters of recommendation, at least one of which is from an APS Fellow.
Deadline: November 15, 2010