Div. 1 (Society for General Psychology)
Div. 1 has announced several 2001 award winners and is seeking nominations for 2002 awards. The division's awards are intended to encourage the integration of knowledge across psychology's subfields as well as incorporating other disciplines.
Michael Tomasello, PhD, won the 2001 William James Book Award for his 1999 book, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. The $1,000 award recognizes a recent book that integrates material across psychological subfields or provides coherence to the diverse subject matter of psychology.
The division also awarded the $500 Ernest R. Hilgard Award, which recognizes career contributions to general psychology, to Murray Sidman, PhD. Jack Martin, PhD, and Jeff Sugarman, PhD, of Simon Fraser University also received $500 as the winners of the George A. Miller Award for a recent, outstanding general psychology article. Their article, "Psychology's reality debate: a 'levels of reality' approach," appeared in the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.
The society is seeking 2002 nominations for the above awards as well as for the Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology Award, which recognizes significant contributions that develop psychology as a unified science with a $1,000 prize.
There are no restrictions on nominations, including self-nominations. For the Hilgard Award and the Staats Award, submit the candidate's vitae, a detailed statement explaining the candidate's qualifications and supporting endorsement letters. For the Miller Award, submit author's vitae, four copies of the nominated article and a statement supporting the nomination. For the William James Award nominations, submit three copies of the book and a one-page statement that explains the submission's qualifications.
Send nominations and supporting materials by April 15 to Alan Boneau, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030; (301) 320-3695; fax: (301) 320-2845; e-mail: aboneau@gmu.edu.
--D. SMITH
