Janet Taylor Spence Award
For Transformative Early Career Contributions
Deadline: December 18, 2012
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.
Nomination Information | Past Recipients
2013 Award Committee
- Lisa Feldman Barrett, Chair
Northeastern University
Paul Bloom
Yale University
Axel Cleeremans
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa
University of Ulm
Ann Kring
University of California, Berkeley
Wendy Berry Mendes
University of California, San Francisco
Deborah Prentice
Princeton University
Award Announcement
APS Spence Award Recognizes Early Career Achievement
The APS Board of Directors established the Janet Taylor Spence Award to recognize transformative contributions to psychological science by rising stars in the field. The Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions celebrates the many new and cutting edge ideas coming out of the most creative and promising investigators who embody the future of psychological science.
The Spence award recognizes young researchers who cross traditional sub-disciplinary lines in psychological science and honors contributions that reveal the organization underlying complex behavior by drawing upon multiple fields of psychological science.
This award is a fitting tribute to its namesake, Janet Taylor Spence, the first elected APS President. Spence’s career embodies transformative contributions to psychological science. She developed new approaches to research and pioneering tools including the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Attitudes Toward Women Scale and she epitomized the spirit of crossing disciplinary boundaries with work on topics ranging from schizophrenia to developmental psychology to gender bias.
The award will be given to the most creative and promising young investigators, like Spence at the beginning of her career.
The first awards were conferred by Spence herself in May 2010 at the APS 22nd Annual Convention in Boston.
