Div. 14 announces annual award winners and new fellows

Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) presented its top honors in April during its annual conference.

Award winners were:

* Frank Landy, PhD, of the Boulder, Colo., office of the England-based consulting firm SHL Group, who received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award. He is an expert witness in employment and human factors litigation.

* Paul M. Muchinsky, PhD, of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who received the Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award. He is the author of "Psychology Applied to Work" (Wadsworth Publishing, 2002), a widely used industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology textbook.

* Kevin Murphy, PhD, of Pennsylvania State University, who received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Chair of the university's psychology department, Murphy is known for his research in performance appraisal and assessment.

* Wayne Camara, PhD, of the College Board in New York, and Nancy Tippins, PhD, of Personnel Research Associates Inc. in Dallas, who received Distinguished Service Contributions awards. Camara developed Div. 14's first membership directory, and Tippins is currently the division's representative to APA's Council of Representatives.

* Jeffery LePine, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Florida and an authority on team performance in the workplace, who received the Distinguished Early Careers Award for his work on team composition and individual and team adaptation.

* Benjamin Schneider, PhD, of the University of Maryland, Amy Nicole Salvaggio, PhD, of the University of Tulsa, and Montse Subirats, PhD, of the University of Valencia in Spain, who jointly received the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for the best 2002 I/O psychology article. The SIOP awards committee votes on papers to determine the winner.

* Joshua Sacco, PhD, who earned his doctorate at Michigan State University and John Hausknecht, PhD, who earned his doctorate at Pennsylvania State University. They shared the S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award for best doctoral student dissertation.

* Renee DeRouin, a doctoral student at the University of Central Florida, who won the Robert J. Wherry Award for the best paper at the Industrial Organizational/Organizational Behavior Conference, an annual gathering of I/O psychology students.

* Ute-Christine Klehe, of the University of Zurich, and Christopher Berry, of the University of Minnesota, who both received the John C. Flanagan Award for Outstanding Student Contribution to the conference for their research papers.

Also at the conference, Div. 14 elected eight of its members to become fellows--the highest honor in the 6,000-member society. The new fellows are:

* Janis Cannon-Bowers, PhD, associate professor of digital media and senior research scientist of the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. Her work focuses on team training, performance and correct decision-making under stress.

* Jack Edwards, PhD, assistant director of social science at the U.S. General Accounting Office. He has influenced public policy by evaluating large-scale government and military human resource programs.

* Paul Hanges, PhD, associate professor of psychology at the University of Maryland. He has conducted research on catastrophic analysis and cross-cultural leadership.

* Scott Highhouse, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University. His research focuses on workplace decision-making, company reputation, choosing a job and applicant recruitment practices.

* David A. Hofmann, PhD, associate professor of management at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has focused on the psychology of workplace safety in the context of leadership and climate.

* Fred A. Mael, PhD, principal research scientist at the American Institutes for Research in Baltimore. He has performed diagnostic organizational surveys and feedback in areas including employee selection, training, loyalty, performance, management and coaching.

* Pamela L. Perrewe, PhD, the Jim Moran Professor of Management at Florida State University. She has examined occupational stress, personality and organizational politics.

* Howard Weiss, PhD, professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University. He was commended for his research in social learning in organizations, personality and organizational behavior and emotions at work.

Div. 18 launches new journal

Div. 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) recently published the premiere issue of its new journal, Psychological Services, edited by Sanford L. Pederson, PhD, and published by APA's Educational Publishing Foundation.

Though Psychological Services will publish articles reflecting the division's emphasis on public service--defined as employment by a government agency--the journal covers the full range of psychological services provided in any service-delivery setting.

Psychological Services seeks submissions that focus on issues related to psychotherapy outcome studies, public policy analyses and evaluation studies of psychological service programs and systems. The journal will also publish a limited number of case studies of psychological services and delivery systems, model program and delivery system descriptions, literature reviews that make significant contributions to existing research, and articles on the training of psychologists for work in public service settings.

For more information, including the table of contents of the premiere issue and instructions for manuscript submissions, visit www.apa.org/journals/ser.html.

Div. 41 journal seeks papers for special issue

Law and Human Behavior, the bimonthly journal of Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society), invites manuscript submissions for a special issue on the role of emotions in legal judgment and decision-making. The issue will feature several types of articles, including:

* Empirical investigations of the role of emotions in legal judgments, such as jury decision-making, eyewitness identification, risk assessment, the decision to pursue litigation, legislative decisions, procedural and distributive justice and clinical judgments.

* Reviews of empirical research about the role of emotions in such judgments. Reviews should include clear descriptions of the ways emotion biases judgments of witnesses, attorneys, judges and other legal process participants; the law's impact on emotional outcomes; or theoretical models to direct further research in this area.

* Descriptions of important legal issues regarding emotion in police work, the courts, legislatures or the lives of people coping with the influence of law. These articles should include suggestions for research that could inform policy or practice.

The journal welcomes contributions involving collaborative work between attorneys and psychologists.

Reviews of manuscripts begin Dec. 15. Late papers will be reviewed as space permits, but authors of papers submitted too late for review can request that their submissions be forwarded for regular journal consideration.

To submit a manuscript, send four copies prepared for anonymous review to guest editors Richard L. Wiener, PhD, and Brian Bornstein, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308; Richard L. Wiener, PhD or Brian Bornstein, PhD.

Explore Div. 52's new Web site

Div. 52 (International) has launched a Web site that promotes international psychology. The site, www.internationalpsychology.org, offers useful news and links on both the division and the field of international psychology. It features video clips from APA conventions, audio clips of famous speeches by psychologists, links to the division's triannual journal, the International Reporter, and access to PSYChat--the division's online chat room featuring real-time language translation. The new site will not replace the division's original site; it will remain functioning at www.tamu-commerce.edu/orgs/div52.

In addition, Div. 52 now offers a members-only listserv that sends e-mail announcements on international psychology news. For more information, e-mail Div. 52 president Richard Velayo, PhD, via e-mail. To join Div. 52, contact Harold Takooshian, PhD, via e-mail.

--M. GREER