Lifetime Achievement Award
Division 3 honors an individual who has made long-lasting and distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to basic research in experimental psychology.
Early Career Award
Since 1995, Division 3 has presented awards to honor outstanding new investigators (i.e., no more than three years post-PhD).
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Award winner: Mike Richardson
Richardson, M., Petrini, K., & Proulx, M. J. (2022). Orientation of tactile attention on the surface of the tongue. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(9), 926–942. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001007opens in new window
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Award winner: Madalina Vlasceanu
Vlasceanu, M., McMahon, C. E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Coman, A. (2023). Political and nonpolitical belief change elicits behavioral change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
Award winner: Gesa Fee Komar, M. Sc. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Komar, G. F., Mieth, L., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2023). Manipulations of richness of encoding do not modulate the animacy effect on memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10.1037/xlm0001249. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001249opens in new window
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Award winner: Claudia Sehl
Sehl, C. G., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2023). The social network: How people infer relationships from mutual connections. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(4), 925–934. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001330opens in new window
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
Award winner: Travis Todd — University of Vermont
For the article: Todd, T. P. (2013). Mechanisms of renewal after the extinction of instrumental behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39 (3), 193-207.
Journal of Experimental Psychology
General winner: Lauren Eskreis-Winkler
Eskreis-Winkler, L., Woolley, K., Erensoy, E., & Kim, M. (2024). The exaggerated benefits of failure. Journal of Experimental Psychology General.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Winner: Kevin Summers
Summers, K. M., Pitts, S., & Lloyd, E. P. (2024). Racial bias in perceptions of children’s pain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30(1), 135–155. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000491opens in new window
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
Winner: Simon Stephan
Stephan, S. (2024). Reasoning about actual causation in reversible and irreversible causal structures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Winner: Elisa Struab
Straub, E. R., Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2024). Generalizability of control across cognitive and emotional conflict. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(1), 2–22. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001155opens in new window
Poster Award
opens in new window Division 3 presents this early career award at the Psychonomic Society's Annual Meeting, held online. To apply, email a PDF of the to be presented poster to SEPCS Awards Chair Audrey Parrish. Please include your abstract number.
Best Student Paper Awardopens in new window
Division 3 recognizes the best student paper at the fall meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society. Future fall meetings will be announced on the Comparative Cognition Society websiteopens in new window.
Women in Cognitive Science Travel and Networking Awardopens in new window
Division 3 is pleased to honor the 2020 winners, Kara Moore, assistant professor at Oklahoma State University; and Gozde Mercan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto. To apply, please visit the Women in Cognitive Science (WICS) websiteopens in new window.
APA Division 3 Award for Best 2013 Psychonomic Society Poster
Julie Hughes (Rice University), for “Facilitation and Interference in Naming: A Consequence of the Same Learning Process?”
Best Early Career Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society
Audrey Parrish (Georgia State University), for “Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Transfer Tokens with Social Partners to Accumulate Rewards in a Self-Control Task”
Lifetime Achievement Award
Keith Rayner, Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology, University of California — San Diego
