International Humanitarian Award
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1145. doi: 10.1037/h0101930.ABSTRACTThe International Humanitarian Award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian services and activism by psychologists, including professional and volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations. Award recipients are psychologists who, by their extraordinary service at a difficult time, improve the lives and contribute to the well-being of people in a large or small geographic area anywhere in the world. The 2023 recipient of the APA International Humanitarian Award was selected by the Board of Directors as recommended by the 2022 Commit...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1146-1148. doi: 10.1037/amp0001273.ABSTRACTThis award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian service and activism by a psychologist or a team of psychologists, including professional and/or volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations. "As president of Shared Space for All (SSFA), a nonprofit organization that educates and mentors impoverished youth in a village in the province of Isaan, Thailand, Mr. Garth Neufeld has successfully and strategically led the organization. SSFA promotes safer futures for youth in a context where poverty limits education and promotes m...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1149. doi: 10.1037/h0101931.ABSTRACTThe Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award is given jointly by APA and Psi Chi for the best paper published or presented by a graduate student at the APA or Psi Chi convention or at any regional or state psychological association meeting held between January 1 and December 31 of the previous calendar year. For purposes of the award, research is broadly defined to include all forms of empirical psychology, such as experiments, correlational studies, historical studies, case histories, and evaluation studies. The Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Awa...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award: Megan E. Golson
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1150-1151. doi: 10.1037/amp0001277.ABSTRACTThe award is presented annually to the psychology graduate student who submits the best research paper that was published or presented at a national, regional, or state psychological association convention during the past calendar year. "This award is given to Megan E. Golson for an exceptional research article titled, 'Influences of Student Race/Ethnicity and Gender on Autism Special Education Classification Considerations.' The research for the article was conducted at Utah State University with faculty advisor, Maryellen Brunson McLain, PhD." (PsycInf...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1018-1019. doi: 10.1037/h0101920.ABSTRACTThe Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2023 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2022 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2022 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38166257 | DOI:10.1037/h0101920 (Source: The American Psychologist)
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1020-1022. doi: 10.1037/amp0001274.ABSTRACTThe APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. "For his systematic and integrative research on the neural and behavioral mechanisms of Pavlovian fear learning. Guided by a functional behavior perspective, Michael S. Fanselow's pioneering studies of conditioned analgesia describe a fundamental biological mechanism for regulating associative learning through error correction. His analysis of the organization of defensive behavi...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1023-1025. doi: 10.1037/amp0001259.ABSTRACTThe APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. "For advancing understanding of the family-level processes through which poverty harms children. Vonnie C. McLoyd extended a family stress model of how families cope with the shock of economic loss to investigate how families cope with poverty and low income as ongoing conditions. Her work demonstrates that poverty and low-income can adversely affect children's psychological func...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Jennifer A. Richeson
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1026-1028. doi: 10.1037/amp0001264.ABSTRACTThe APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. "For illuminating with theoretical boldness and methodological rigor how sociocultural group memberships such as race and socioeconomic status shape how people reason about, respond to, and experience inequality and injustice. Jennifer A. Richeson has shown how threat impacts misperceptions of inequality and reactions to increasing racial diversity. Her steadfast commitment to be...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1029. doi: 10.1037/h0101921.ABSTRACTThe Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2023 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2022 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2022 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38166261 | DOI:10.1037/h010...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology: Michelene T. H. Chi
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1030-1032. doi: 10.1037/amp0001271.ABSTRACTThe APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. "For foundational contributions to the cognitive and learning sciences. Michelene T. H. Chi's work has led to new conceptualizations of the nature of expertise and of the nature and structure of children's knowledge. Her work on deep understanding of complex concepts has highlighted the importance of generativ...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1033-1035. doi: 10.1037/h0101922.ABSTRACTThe Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with are...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Michael J. Arcaro
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1036-1037. doi: 10.1037/amp0001281.ABSTRACTThis award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers. "For showing that the fundamental organizing principle of the primate brain, including humans, is map-based. Showing that the brain is map-based, topographically organized, and interconnected links huge swaths of otherwise unrelated findings about different parts of the brain. Most people regard the brain as divided up into distinct areas that each have their own unique function, which evolved to perform this function. Michael J. Arcaro's work instead shows t...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Anu Asnaani
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1038-1040. doi: 10.1037/amp0001263.ABSTRACTThis award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers. "For her groundbreaking work in the area of cross-cultural psychology and anxiety disorders. Anu Asnaani has been tackling clinically important and scientifically challenging questions using sophisticated statistical procedures and experimental designs. Her studies range from analyses of large epidemiological databases to carefully designed experimental investigations on the physiological effects of different emotion regulation strategies on anxiety in differ...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What role can (and should) clinical science play in promoting mental health care equity?
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1041-1054. doi: 10.1037/amp0001217.ABSTRACTHealth inequities have persisted in scientific examination and subsequent efforts related to prevention, detection, and, particularly, treatment of mental health disorders and symptoms over most of the history of our field. In the past decade, the tide has been slowly turning to make the promotion of mental health care equity across all segments of the population more mainstream, and the momentum to do so has further accelerated in the past 5 years. This review provides a brief summary of what we currently know about mental health care inequities (across...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anu Asnaani Source Type: research
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Erin S. Calipari
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1055-1057. doi: 10.1037/amp0001267.ABSTRACTThe APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology honor early career scientists for contributions in the first 9 years post-PhD. "For innovative and outstanding research on the neural control of complex behavior. Erin S. Calipari's work has used an impressive array of multidisciplinary approaches to link neural function and dysfunction directly to behavior and decision making. By combining techniques to record from and manipulate precise circuits in the brain with computational approaches, her work has defined exactly...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
