APS William James Fellow Award
The APS William James Fellow Award honors APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology.
2018 James Award Recipients
John T. Cacioppo
University of Chicago
Jonathan D. Cohen
Princeton University
Barbara Landau
Johns Hopkins University
Linda B. Smith
Indiana University Bloomington
APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award
The APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award honors APS members for their lifetime of significant
intellectual achievements in applied psychological research and their impact on a critical problem in
society at large.
2018 Cattell Award Recipients
Richard A. Bryant
University of New South Wales, Australia
Janet Shibley Hyde
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Richard E. Mayer
University of California, Santa Barbara
APS Mentor Award
The APS Mentor Award recognizes those who have significantly fostered the careers of others, honoring APS members who masterfully help students and others find their own voice and discover their own research and career goals.
2018 Mentor Award Recipients
Harry P. Bahrick
Ohio Wesleyan University
Gordon H. Bower
Stanford University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Northeastern University
APS Janet Taylor Spence Award For Transformative Early Career Contributions
The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Award winners should be APS members who reflect the best of the many new and cutting-edge ideas coming out of our most creative and promising investigators.
Learn more about APS Past President Janet Taylor Spence.
2018 Spence Award Recipients
Elliot T. Berkman
University of Oregon
Marc G. Berman
The University of Chicago
Catherine Hartley
New York University
Kristin Laurin
University of British Columbia
Robb B. Rutledge
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Amrisha Vaish
University of Virginia
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, service, and/or application.
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APS Rising Stars
The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.
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