APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sergio Dom ínguez Jr
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1138-1140. doi: 10.1037/amp0001275.ABSTRACTThis award honors a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. "Sergio Domínguez Jr. is a PhD candidate in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pre-doctoral intern in health service psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago Counseling Center. As a practitioner-scholar-advocate, their work focuses on facilitators and inhibitors to pleasure, particularly by using a racial-gender justice perspective as a vehicle toward achieving widespread freedom and liberation. Specifical...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1141. doi: 10.1037/h0101929.ABSTRACTThis award is given to individuals who have made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology. The 2023 recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology was selected by the Board of Directors as recommended by the 2022 Committee on International Relations in Psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38166287 | DOI:10.1037/h0101929 (Source: The American Psychologist)
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons
Am Psychol. 2023 Dec;78(9):1142-1144. doi: 10.1037/amp0001262.ABSTRACT"APA's Committee for Global Psychology is pleased to present this award to Judith L. Gibbons. Dr. Gibbons is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Saint Louis University and throughout her career has exemplified the best of international scholarship, mentorship, editorships, professional leadership, and humanitarian service. Her scholarship focuses on international and cross-cultural studies of adolescent development, intercountry adoption, psychology of women and gender, and human-equine interaction. Dr. Gibbons has made extraordinary contributions to the ...
Source: The American Psychologist - January 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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