Award Committee
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
University of Chicago
Marilynn Brewer
University of New South Wales
Patricia G. Devine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Geraldine Downey
Columbia University
Ellen Markman
Stanford University
Thomas Mussweiler
Universität zu Köln
Elizabeth Phelps
New York University
Laurie Santos
Yale University
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
University of Pennsylvania
Janet Taylor Spence Award
For Transformative Early Career Contributions
Deadline: October 15, 2010
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?
To nominate a candidate for the Janet Taylor Spence Award, please fill out this online form, or submit the following materials electronically to the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award Committee at awards@psychologicalscience.org:
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: October 15, 2010