Student Publication Prize

SPSP recognizes excellence in research by student members with its Student Publication Prize. Papers are eligible for consideration if they are published in the calendar year prior to nomination in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review, or Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Award Info

About the Award

Recipients of this prize receive a $400 honorarium and an accompanying plaque, which is presented at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention, as well as a complimentary one-year SPSP membership.

Eligibility

Requirements

Eligible papers must have been published in PSPR, PSPB or SPPS during the calendar year prior to nomination. For example, to be nominated in 2017, the publication must have been printed in calendar year 2016. Papers and chapters still "in press" are not eligible.

How to Apply

All student first-authored papers that have been accepted for publication in SPSP journals are automatically eligible for this prize. There is not an open call for nominations. For more information on the nomination process, see the Contact tab.

Past Recipients

2020

Pelin Gul, Benevolent Sexism and Mate Preferences: Why Do Women Prefer Benevolent Men Despite Recognizing That They Can Be Undermining?

Sarah Humberg, Response Surface Analysis in Personality and Social Psychology: Checklist and Clarifications for the Case of Congruence Hypotheses

Angie LeRoy, Implications for Reward Processing in Differential Responses to Loss: Impacts on Attachment Hierarchy Reorganization

Amanda Ravary, Shaping the Body Politic: Mass Media Fat-Shaming Affects Implicit Anti-Fat Attitudes

Xian Zhao, Your Name Is Your Lifesaver: Anglicization of Names and Moral Dilemmas in a Trilogy of Transportation Accidents

2019

Mona Ayoub, The relations between parental socioeconomic status, personality, and life outcomes

Kimberly E. Chaney, The endurance of interpersonal confrontations as a prejudice reduction strategy

Boaz Hameiri, Paradoxical thinking as a conflict-resolution intervention: Comparison to alternative interventions and examination of psychological mechanisms

Nicholas M. Hobson, The psychology of rituals: An integrative review and process-based framework

2018

Frederick Clavel, United and Divided by Stress: How Stressors Differentially Influence Social Support in African American Couples Over Time

Bruce Doré, Helping Others Regulate Emotion Predicts Increased Regulation of One’s Own Emotions and Decreased Symptoms of Depression

David S. March, In Harm’s Way: On Preferential Response to Threatening Stimuli

Amit Goldenberg & Kinneret Endevelt, Making Intergroup Contact More Fruitful: Enhancing Cooperation Between Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli Adolescents by Fostering Beliefs About Group Malleability

Feng Bai, Beyond Dominance and Competence: A Moral Virtue Theory of Status Attainment

2017

Priyanka D. Joshi, Communicating with distant others: the functional use of abstraction

Gabrielle Filip-Crawford, Homosexuality and pro-gay ideology as pathogens? Implications of a disease-spread lay model for understanding anti-gay behaviors

Matthew D. Rocklage, On the Dominance of Attitude Emotionality

Andrew H. Hales, Disagreeableness as a Cause and Consequence of Ostracism

2016

Laura Van Berkel, Hierarchy, dominance, and deliberation: Egalitarian values require mental effort

Jonas R. Kunst, "We Are in This Together” Common Group Identity Predicts Majority Members’ Active Acculturation Efforts to Integrate Immigrants

Kun Zhao, The role of interpersonal traits in social decision making: Exploring sources of behavioral heterogeneity in economic games

James R. Rae, Exposure to racial out-groups and implicit race bias in the United States

2015

Samantha J. Heintzelman, (The Feeling of) Meaning-as-Information

Bo M. Winegard, Grief functions as an honest indicator of commitment

Jiyin Cao, Does travel broaden the mind? Breadth of foreign experiences increases generalized trust

Alyssa Fu, My mother and me: Why tiger mothers motivate Asian Americans but not European Americans

2014

Samantha Joel, The Things you do for me: Perceptions of a romantic partner’s investments promote gratitude and commitment

Kyle G. Ratner, Perceived stigmatization, ingroup pride, and immune and endocrine activity: Evidence from a community sample of Black and Latina women

Xiaowen Xu, Does cultural exposure partially explain the association between personality and political orientation?

Contact

For more information, please contact awards@spsp.org

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