SAGE Young Scholars

FPSP, in collaboration with SAGE Publications, is pleased to award the SAGE Young Scholars Awards. These awards recognize outstanding young researchers in personality and social psychology. The awardees will receive a one-time award of $5,000 to be used at their discretion for research, study, or conference travel-related purposes, as well as a complimentary one-year SPSP membership. At least five awards are presented each year to young scholars representative of the broad spectrum of personality and social psychology research areas.

Award Info

About the Award

This year’s recipients

Sylvia Perry, Northwestern University

Sylvia Perry is an Assistant Professor of social psychology and medical social sciences (by courtesy), and a Faculty Associate for the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She investigates how racial bias awareness develops, and the implications of bias awareness for prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, and health disparities.

Sarah Gaither, Duke University

Dr. Sarah Gaither is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. She studies how contact with diverse others shapes social interactions, how having multiple social identities affects social behavior and perceptions, and what contexts influence social attitudes particularly for underrepresented populations across the lifespan.

Rodica Damian, University of Houston

Rodica Damian is a social/personality psychologist interested in understanding the lifespan development of human potential and resilience, and downstream consequences for career success and well-being. A major unifying theme of her research is how people can overcome disadvantaged backgrounds and adverse life experiences and thrive.

Diana Tamir, Princeton University

Diana Tamir is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research examines how people think about their own minds and the minds of other people using methods from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Neil Lewis, Jr., Cornell University

Neil Lewis, Jr. is an assistant professor in the departments of communication and medicine, and graduate field of psychology at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. His research examines how people's social contexts and identities influence their motivation to pursue their goals, and their success in goal pursuit efforts.

Steven O. Roberts, Stanford University

Steven O. Roberts is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. His research interest is in identifying and dismantling the psychological forces that maintain and reinforce social inequality, with a particular focus on racial inequality.

Ana Gantman, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Ana Gantman is an assistant professor of social psychology at Brooklyn College (CUNY). She completed her PhD at New York University. Her research program investigates morality as it pertains to social issues and public policy, and affects our behavior, cognition, and perception.

John Rauthmann, Bielefeld University

John Rauthmann is Professor of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment at Bielefeld University. His interests lie in dynamic approaches to personality and individual differences; person-environment relations (i.e., correlations, interactions, transactions, fits); psychological situations (i.e., conceptualization, taxonomization, measurement); and novel technology-based ways of measuring and assessing psychological information.

About the Award

The Sage Young Scholar Awards recognize outstanding achievements by young scholars who are early in their research careers. The awards are intended to provide these scholars with funds that can be flexibly applied in extending their work in new and exciting directions. Previous recipients of this award have gone on to positions of intellectual leadership in the field. Because these awards are highly sought after, receiving a Sage Young Scholar Award is recognition of both accomplishment and potential.

About the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology

The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology has been established to raise funds and sponsor philanthropic activities advancing the discipline. It focuses on development and fundraising, seeking gifts and donations to fund forward-looking and long-term activities that would augment and broaden the vigor of personality and social psychology.

Requirements

Candidates must be between 3 to 7 years into their first academic faculty position (but not including post-doctoral training) by October of the year in which they are nominated. Previous winners may not be renominated.
Candidates should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in social and/or personality psychology (broadly defined), conducting research that places them at the forefront of their peers. Criteria include innovation, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact on the field.

How to Apply

Submission Criteria

Individuals may self-nominate or be nominated by others
A two page research statement describing the candidate's current and future research plans, highlighting the work's creativity and potential impact on the field.
A statement (up to 200 words) regarding how the Sage Young Scholar Award would encourage their development as a future leader of the field.
The nominee’s current vita in electronic format.

How to Submit

Submissions for this award are accepted from closed.

Past Recipients

2019 (awarded in 2020)

Lara Aknin, Simon Fraser University

Joey Cheng, York University

William Chopik, Michigan State University

Amy Muise, York University

Ed O'Brien, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Aneeta Rattan, London Business School

Louis Tay, Purdue University

Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge

2019 (awarded in 2019)

Will Gervais, University of Kentucky

Igor Grossmann, University of Waterloo

Paul K. Piff, University of California, Irvine

Aidan G.C. Wright, University of Pittsburgh

Maike Luhmann, Ruhr University

Lauren Human, McGill University

Michael Varnum, Arizona State University

Rebecca Neel, University of Toronto

2018

Mark Brandt, Tilburg University

Molly Crockett, Yale University / Oxford Centre for Neuroethics

Michael Kraus, Yale University

Nour Kteily, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Kristin Laurin, University of British Columbia

Ryne Sherman, Texas Tech University

Erica Slotter, Villanova University

Joshua Tybur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2017

Erika Carlson, University of Toronto

Mina Cikara, Harvard University

Jesse Graham, University of Southern California

Kurt Gray, University of North Carolina

Andrew Todd, University of Iowa

Liane Young, Boston College

Jamil Zaki, Stanford University

2016

Wiebke Bleidorn, University of California, Davis

Jon Freeman, New York University

Ulrich Orth, University of Bern

Cheryl Wakslak, University of Southern California

Adam Waytz, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

2015

Clayton Critcher, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Emily Impett, University of Toronto Mississauga

Nick Rule, University of Toronto

Jenessa Shapiro, University of California, Los Angeles

Jay Van Bavel, New York University

2014

Paul Eastwick

Jochen Gebauer

Edward Lemay

Kristina Olson

Tessa West

2013

Joan Chiao

Wilhelm Hoffman

Ethan Kross

Elizabeth Paluck

Greg Walton

2012

Colin DeYoung

Naomi Eisenberger

Vladas Griskevicius

Mark J. Landau

Michael I. Norton

2011

Emily Balcetis

C. Nathan DeWall

Kentaro Fujita

Omri Gillath

Jason P. Mitchell

Simine Vazire

2010

Reginald Adams

William Cunningham

Sally Dickerson

Grainne Fitzsimmons

Aaron Kay

2009

David Amodio

Wendy Berry Mendes

Cheryl Kaiser

Kurt Hugenberg

David Sherman

Alexander Todorov

2008

Eli Finkel

Virginia Kwan

Jon Maner

B. Keith Payne

Kathleen Vohs

Contact

SPSP Awards Coordinator

Emma Mugford, awards@spsp.org

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