Janet Taylor Spence Award
For Transformative Early Career Contributions
Deadline: October 15, 2011
The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award was established to recognize transformative early career contributions to psychological science.
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 to at least five recipients yearly at the APS Annual Convention.
2011 Award Committee
- Lisa Feldman Barrett, Chair
Northeastern University
Paul Bloom
Yale University
Axel Cleeremans
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Geraldine Downey
Columbia University
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ann Kring
University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Prentice
Princeton University
Laurie Santos
Yale University
Richard M. Shiffrin
Indiana University
Nominees must be members of the Association for Psychological Science and must have completed their PhD within eight years of the date of the annual meeting at which the award would be conferred.
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, 2011
