Div. 3 Early Career Awards

The Div. 3 Early Career Awards, formerly called the New Investigator Awards, have been presented since 1995 to honor outstanding new investigators. Each year the editors of each of the five sections of the Journal of Experimental Psychology are asked to nominate individuals based on the editors’ judgment of the most outstanding empirical papers published or accepted during that year that were authored by a new scholar (i.e., no more than three years post-PhD). The awards committee then makes recommendations to the Div. 3 executive board for final approval. Typically, but not always, there is one winner from each journal.

Editors of each of the five sections of the Journal of Experimental Psychology are asked to nominate individuals. The awards committee then makes recommendations to the Div. 3 executive board.

2020

Hilary Don for
Don, H. J., Beesley, T., & Livesey, E. J., (2019). Learned predictiveness models predict opposite attention biases in the inverse base-rate effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, Vol. 45, No. 2, 143-162.

Mona Weinhuber for
Weinhuber, M.;, Lachner, A.;,Leuders, T., & Nückles, M. (2019). Mathematics Is Practice or Argumentation: Mindset Priming Impacts Principle- and Procedure-Orientation of Teachers’ Explanations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Vol. 25, No. 4, 618–646.

Berekeley Dietvorst for
Dietvorst, B. J., & Simonsohn, U. (2019). Intentionally “biased”: People purposely use to-be-ignored information but can be persuaded not to. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1228-1238.

Rebecca Lawrence for
Lawrence, R. (2019). The impact of scaling rather than shaping attention: Changes in the scale of attention using global motion inducers influence both spatial and temporal acuity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Anna Coenen for
Coenen, A., Ruggeri, A., Bramley, N. R., & Gureckis, T. M. (2019). Testing one or multiple: How beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(11), 1923–1941. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000680

2019

Dana A. Hayward for
Hayward, D. A., Pereira, E. J., Otto, A. R., & Ristic, J. (2018). Smile! Social reward drives attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 206-214

Jennifer M. Logg for
Logg, J.M., Haran, U., & Moore, D.A. (2018). Is overconfidence a motivational bias?  Experimental evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1445-1465.

Tina Seabrooke for
Seabrooke, T., Le Pelley, M. E., Porter, A., & Mitchell, C. J. (2018).  Extinguishing cue-controlled reward choice: Effects of Pavlovian extinction on Outcome-selective Pavlovian-instrumental transfer.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, 280-292
 
Jeffrey D. Wammes for
Wammes, J. D., Meade, M. E., & Fernandes, M. A. (2018). Creating a Recollection-Based Memory Through Drawing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 734–751

Michael David Wilson for
Wilson, M. D., Farrell, S., Visser, T. A., & Loft, S. (2018). Remembering to execute deferred tasks in simulated air traffic control: the impact of interruptions. Journal of experimental Psychology: Applied.  24, 360-374

2018

Andrew Marshall, PhD, for his paper:
Marshall, A. T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2017). Reinforcement learning models of risky choice and the promotion of risk-taking by losses disguised as wins in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43(3), 262-279.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000141
 
Nicole Long, PhD, for her paper:
Long, N. M., & Kahana, M. J. (2017). Modulation of task demands suggests that semantic processing interferes with the formation of episodic associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(2), 167-176.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000300
 
Katherine Storrs, PhD, for her paper:
Storrs, K. R., & Arnold, D. H. (2017). Shape adaptation exaggerates shape differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(1), 181-191.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000292
 
Alice Towler, PhD, for her paper:
Towler, A., White, D., & Kemp, R. I. (2017). Evaluating the feature comparison strategy for forensic face identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23(1), 47-58.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000108
 
Mark Shurgin, PhD, for his paper:
Schurgin, M. W., & Flombaum, J. I. (2017). Exploiting core knowledge for visual object recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 362-375.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000270

2017

Audrey Parrish (The Citadel) co-recipient
Do you see what I see? A comparative investigation of the Delboeuf illusion in humans (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) (with S.F. Brosnan, M.J. Beran).  JEP:Animal Learning and Cognition

Eric Thrailkill (U. Vermont) co-recipient
Extinction of chained instrumental behaviors: Effects of procurement extinction on consumption responding. (with M.E. Bouton) .  JEP:Animal Learning and Cognition

Sabrina R. Cohen-Hatton (Cardiff U.)
Goal-oriented training affects decision-making processes in virtual and simulated fire and rescue environments (with R.C. Honey) JEP:Applied

Dóra Erbé-Matzke (U. Amsterdam)
The effect of horizontal eye movements on free recall: A preregistered adversarial collaboration (with S. Nieuwenhuis, H. van Rijn, H.A. Slagter) JEP:General.

Kristina Rand (U. Utah)
Spatial learning while navigating with severely degraded viewing: The role of attention and mobility monitoring (with S.H. Creem-Regehr, W.B. Thompson) JEP:HumanPerception and Performance

Tanya Jonker (U. Waterloo)
Disruption of relational processing underlies poor memory for order (with C.M. MacLeod). JEP: Learning, Memory and Cognition