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2013 APS Award Address: Elaine F. Walker
Research on the origins of serious mental illness has benefited greatly from advances in developmental neuroscience. With these advances, we now have a clearer picture of the complex interplay between environmental factors and brain development. Contemporary research on the origins of serious mental illness has drawn on this knowledge base and yielded important findings about the confluence of factors that give rise to mental disorders. This presentation will describe the major trends in these new findings and their implications for future perspectives on mental health.
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Psychological Science Is Important (video)
APS Executive Director Alan G. Kraut Psychological science is important, as APS Executive Director Alan G. Kraut reminds us. By itself, psychological science produces a rich understanding of behavior. When paired with behavioral investigation, many other fields of scientific inquiry produce a richer understanding of our world. When he was APS President, John Cacioppo pointed out that an analysis of thousands of scientific journals (and literally millions of scientific articles) had identified psychological science — along with math, physics, and chemistry — as one of seven core disciplines that produces research cited widely by scientists in other fields.
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William James Fellow Award Address: Charles R. Gallistel
Matching As Innate Policy: Implications for the Study of Learning and Economic Decision Making Charles R. Gallistel 18th APS Annual Convention New York, NY - 2006
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James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address: Stephen Ceci
Stephen Ceci, Cornell University, received the 2004-2005 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award at the 17th APS Annual Convention for his lifetime of outstanding contributions to the area of applied psychological research. He accepted the award, saying tongue-in-cheek, “Getting this award caused me to ponder what it is about me and my research that merited this award. Was I smart, or creative, or hard working? And introspecting a little, I came to the conclusion that yes, I was all three of those things. But, you’ll be pleased to know, no more so than you are.
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William James Fellow Award Address: Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin, King’s College London, received the 2004-2005 APS William James Fellow Award at the 17th APS Annual Convention for his outstanding lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. In accepting the award, Plomin said, “I think the integration of genetics into psychology has been slow. For example, I think even now if we have a little word association test, if I said nature-nurture, what do you think? Controversy. Nature-nurture controversy.
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William James Fellow Award Address: David Premack
David Premack, University of Pennsylvania, received the 2004-2005 APS William James Fellow Award at the 17th APS Annual Convention for his outstanding lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Premack accepted the award, saying, “Getting awards is a tricky business. But there’s really only one rule that you should stick to. You should make every effort to get them pre-posthumously.” Read Premack's Award Citation
