Graduate Student Ethics Prize

• To be eligible, papers must be received in the Ethics Office by midnight ET Friday on Jan. 3, 2014. Papers may be submitted by U.S. postal service, courier or email. It is strongly preferred that papers be submitted electronically.

• The prize is open to APAGS members enrolled in a psychology graduate program at the time the paper is submitted. 

• "Psychology and ethics" is defined broadly, to include any empirical or theoretical paper that examines psychology and ethics in relation to science or research, practice, education, public interest or theory of ethics. The paper must indicate why its particular focus is worthy of attention.

• Submissions must be written in APA style and may not exceed 25 double-spaced pages (including tables and references).

• Submissions must include an abstract.

• Submissions may not have been previously published or submitted for publication.

• It is expected that authors will receive assistance from faculty advisors. Such assistance must not be sufficiently extensive for the faculty member to merit authorship on the paper. The student author(s) must be able to claim sole authorship. Jointly-authored student papers are acceptable. In the case of a jointly-authored paper, one prize will be awarded.

• Although papers written for ethics courses are acceptable, it is generally the case that course papers require considerable additional work to warrant serious contention for the Ethics Prize, which is normally awarded to a paper of publishable or near-publishable quality.

• Papers will be judged based upon quality and originality of ideas, clarity of analysis and expression and adequacy of literature review.

Please submit two copies electronically by midnight ET on Friday Jan. 3, 2014 or by postal mail, no later than 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 3, 2014. One copy should indicate name and contact information, including name of academic program, an email address and telephone number. The second copy should have no identifying information. Submissions that do not have a second, unidentified copy will not be accepted.

It is strongly preferred that papers be submitted electronically.

Papers may also be submitted by hardcopy:

APA Office of Ethics (attn: Ethics Prize)
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, D.C., 20002

The winning paper will be announced by Feb. 21, 2014.

Questions about the prize? Send a message by email with subject heading “Question about 2014 writing prize.”

2012: Rachel M. Wasserman

2011: Rachel Winograd

2010: John-Paul Legerski and Sarah L. Bunnell (co-authors)

2009: Starla Armstrong

2008: Zachary W. Adams and Sara E. Boyd (co-authors)

2007: Keren Lehavot

2006: Rebecca Schwartz

2005: Juli B. Kramer

2004: Dhruvi Kakkad

2003: Craig Fisher

2002: Nancy K. Lewis