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Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions To Psychology

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young 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 areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 1998/1999 were social, perception/motor performance, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, individual differences, and applied research. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards.

* These awards were shared; they were not for collaboration.

1974

Norman Adler (physiological)

John Neale (psychopathology)

Michael Turvey (human learning/cognition)

1976

Sandra Bem (personality)

Rochel Gelman (developmental)

Martin E. P. Seligman (animal learning/behavior)

1977

Randolph Blake (sensation/perception)

Judith Rodin (social)

J. Arthur Woodward (methodological)

1978

John Robert Anderson (human learning/cognition)

Philip Groves (physiological) 

Gary E. Schwartz (psychopathology) 

1979

David Crews (animal learning/behavior)

John Kihlstrom (personality)

Michael Maratsos (developmental)

1980

Lynn Cooper (sensation/perception)

Baruch Fischhoff (methodological)

Shelley Taylor (social)*

Camille Wortman (social)*

1981

Lyn Y. Abramson (psychopathology)

Harvey Grill (physiological)

Robert Sternberg (human learning/cognition)

1963

Roger G. Barker

George A. Miller

Carl Pfaffmann

1982

Richard Aslin (developmental)

David S. Krantz (personality)

Martha McClintock (animal learning/behavior)

1983

Russell H. Fazio (social)

Carol L. Krumhansl (sensation/perception)

(No award given in methodological)

1984

Kenneth A. Dodge (psychopathology)

Marta Kutas (physiological)

Steven Pinker (human learning/cognition)

1985

Nancy E. Cantor (personality)

Michael S. Fanselow (animal learning/behavior)

Frank C. Keil (developmental)*

Linda B. Smith (developmental)*

1986

Steven Penrod (applied research)

Philip E. Tetlock (social)

David R. Williams (sensation/perception)

1987

S. Marc Breedlove (physiological)

Gary S. Dell (human learning/cognition)

William G. Iacono (psychopathology)

1988

David M. Buss (personality)

James P. Connell (developmental)

Barbara Boardman Smuts (animal learning/behavior)

1989

Donald D. Hoffman (sensation/perception)

Ruth Kanfer (applied research)

John A. Bargh (social)*

Thomas K. Srull (social)*

1990

Rick E. Ingram (psychopathology)

Dennis P. Phillips (physiological)

Daniel L. Schacter (human learning/cognition)

1991

Kent C. Berridge (animal learning/behavior)

Susan A. Gelman (developmental)

Randy J. Larsen (personality)

1992

Philip L. Ackerman (applied research/psychometrics)

Martha J. Farah (perception/motor performance)

Daniel T. Gilbert (social/personality)

Martin F. Sarter (biopsychology/animal behavior)

1993

Patricia J. Bauer (developmental)

Terrie E. Moffitt (psychopathology)

Stephen T. Tiffany (health)

Leda Cosmides (human learning/cognition)*

Robert M. Nosofsky (human learning/cognition)*

1994

Patricia G. Devine (social/personality)

Cheri Ostroff (applied research/psychometrics)

Daniel J. Povinelli (biopsychology/animal behavior)

Steven Yantis (perception/motor performance)

1995

Avshalom Caspi (developmental)

Fernanda Ferreira (human learning/cognition)

Charles M. Morin (health)

Christopher J. Patrick (psychopathology)

1996

Mark A. Gluck (behavioral neuroscience/animal learning and behavior)

Lee Jussim (social/personality)

David Lubinski (applied research/psychometrics)

Caroline M. Palmer (perception/motor performance)

1997

Seth C. Kalichman (health)

Dare A. Baldwin (developmental)

Mark S. Blumberg (animal learning/behavior/comparative)

Thomas N. Bradbury (psychopathology)

Michael J. Tarr (human learning/cognition)

1998/1999

Monica R. Biernat (social)*

C. Neil Macrae (social)*

Michael D'Zmura (perception/motor performance)

Steven J. Luck (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience)

Niels G. Waller (individual differences)

Gretchen B. Chapman (applied research)

2000

Alan L. Christensen (health)

Robert L. Goldstone (cognition/human learning)

Thomas E. Joiner (psychopathology)

Dario Maestripieri (animal learning and behavior, comparative)

Jeffrey G. Parker (developmental)*

Karen Wynn (developmental)*

2001

Marlene Behrmann (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience)*

Stephen A. Maren (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience)*

Norman B. Schmidt (applied research)

Duane T. Wegner (social)

Andrew J. Elliot (individual differences)*

James J. Gross (individual differences)*

Paul A. S. Breslin (perception/motor performance)

2002

Deanna M. Barch (psychopathology)*

Donald R. Lynam (psychopathology)*

Nicki R. Crick (developmental)

Alexander J. Rothman (health)

Marvin M. Chun (cognition/human learning)*

Julie A. Fiez (cognition/human learning)*

Lisa M. Savage (animal learning and behavior, comparative)

2003

Isabel Gauthier (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience)

Nancy M. Petry (applied research)

Richard W. Robins (individual differences)

Daniel J. Simons (perception/motor performance)

Steven J. Heine (social)*

Sandra L. Murray (social)*

2004

Edith Chen (Health)*

Gregory E. Miller (Health)*

Elena L. Grigorenko (developmental)*

Thomas G. O'Connor (developmental)*

Jenny R. Saffran (cognition/human learning)

Eric Stice (psychopathology)

Klaus Zuberbühler (animal learning and behavior, comparative)

2005

Albert Jan (Ap) Dijksterhuls (social)

Gunther Knoblich (perception/motor performance)

Robert F. Krueger (individual differences)

Hendree E. Jones (applied research)*

Frederick P. Morgeson (applied research)*

Russell A. Poldrack (behavioral/cognitive neuroscience)

2006

Mark G. Baxter (animal learning and behavior, comparative)

Theodore P. Beauchaine (psychopathology)

Angela Bryan (health psychology)

Seth D. Pollak (developmental psychology)

Brian J. Scholl (cognition and human learning)*

Anthony D. Wagner (cognition and human learning)*

2007

Robert D. Gray (applied psychology)

Patrik O. Vuilleumier (behavioral and cognitive neuroscience)

R. Chris Fraley (individual differences)

Jörn Diedrichsen (perception, motor performance)

Matthew D. Lieberman (social psychology)


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