Awards and Honors

William James Fellow Award

The annual William James Fellow Award honors individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology.

2012 Award Recipients

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James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award

The annual James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award honors individuals for their lifetime of significant
intellectual achievements in applied psychological research and their impact on a critical problem in society at large.

2012 Award Recipients

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Janet Taylor Spence Award For Transformative Early Career ContributionsSpence_Janet

The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award was established to recognize transformative early career contributions to psychological science. 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.

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APS Fellows

Fellow status is awarded to APS Members who made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, and/or application.

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Student Awards & Grants

The APS Student Caucus offers several awards and grants to promote the research of psychology. Learn More

The James McKeen Cattell Fund

For over half a century, the James McKeen Cattell Fund has provided support for the science and the application of psychology. The Fund offers a program of supplementary sabbatical awards
(”James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships”). These awards supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients’ home institutions, to allow an extension of leave-time from one to two semesters.

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