William James Book Award

This award is intended to honor and publicize a recent book that serves to integrate material across psychological subfields or to provide coherence to the diverse subject matter of psychology.

Deadline: February 15, 2012

Sponsor: Division 1

Description

The William James Award is intended to honor and publicize a recent book that best serves to further the goals of the Society by providing an outstanding example of an effort to bring together diverse subfields of psychology and related disciplines. This work must provide a coherent framework that stands as a creative synthesis of theory and fact from disparate areas and demonstrates an essential underlying set of themes that serve to unify or integrate the field.

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Past Recipients

2011	Paul Bloom for his book, How pleasure works: The new science of why we like what we like. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.
2010	Harry C. Triandis for his book, Fooling Ourselves: Self-deception in Politics, Religion, and Terrorism. Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, (2009).
2009	Susan Pinker, MSc: The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap
2008	Philip Zimbardo, PhD: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York: Random House, 2007. Recognition Award: Carol Tavris, PhD and Elliot Aronson, PhD: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007.
2007	Gregory J. Feist: The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
2006	Dan P. McAdams: The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By Honorable mention: Rami Benbinashty, PhD & Ron Avi: School Violence in Context:Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School, and Gender.
2005	Barbara Rogoff: The Cultural Nature of Human Development
2004	Richard Nisbett, PhD: The Geography of Thought
2003	Stephen Pinker: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Daniel L. Schacter, PhD: The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
2002	Michael Gazzaniga: The New Cognitive Neurosciences (2nd ed.)
2001	Michael Tomasello: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
2000	Dean Keith Simonton: The Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity Steven Ceci & Maggie Bruck: Crisis in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony
1999	Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works Stuart A. Vyse: Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
1998	Jill G. Morawski: Practicing Feminism: Reconstructing Psychotherapy
1997	Daniel L. Schacter, PhD: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past
1996	Earl Hunt, PhD: Will We Be Smart Enough? David C. Rubin: Memory in Oral Traditions
1995	Michael Posner, PhD & Marcus E. Raichle: Images of Mind
1994	Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct
1993	Scott Plous, PhD: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
1992	George A. Miller, PhD: The Science of Words
1991	Irving Gottesman, PhD: Schizophrenia Genesis
1990	Robyn Dawes: Rational Behavior in an Uncertain World
1989	Vera John-Steiner: Notebooks of the Mind
1988	Jerome Kagan, PhD: The Nature of the Child
1987	Howard E. Gardner: The Mind's New Science
1986	George Mandler, PhD: Mind and Body

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