Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award
The Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award is given each year to recognize the best paper published in Journal of Comparative Psychology®. Each author receives a plaque at the business meeting of Div. 6, held at the APA Annual Convention.
This award is selected by the editor and consulting editors of Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Frank Beach (1911-88) was arguably the premier psychobiologist of his generation, influencing the development of psychobiology in diverse ways. He was especially known for his studies of sexual behavior. Along with William C. Young, he established the field of behavioral endocrinology. A University of Chicago PhD, he worked for a while in Karl Lashley's laboratory and later founded the Department of Animal Behavior at the American Museum of Natural History. He had appointments at Yale University and at University of California-Berkeley, from which he retired. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was awarded the Distinguished Scientific award and the Howard Crosby Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He was also a charter member of the psychobiology panel of the National Science Foundation. Two of his still-influential and widely read papers are The Snark Was a Boojum (1950) and The Descent of Instinct (1955).
2020
Tecwyn, E. C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2019). What factors really influence domestic dogs’ (Canis familiaris) search for an item dropped down a diagonal tube? The tubes task revisited. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 133(1), 4-19.2019
Czaczkes, T. J., Brandstetter, B., di Stefano, I., & Heinze, J. (2018). Greater effort increases perceived value in an invertebrate. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132, 200-209.2018
Tan, Amanda W.Y. (2017). "From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging, long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative, perception-action perspective." Journal of Comparative Psychology, 131, 89-114.
2017
Cordoni, G.; Nicotra, V. & Palagi, E. (2016). "Unveiling the 'secret' of play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Asymmetry and signals." Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 278-287.
2015
Anke F. Bullinger
2014
Camila Ferrara
2013
Judith Burkart
2012
W. Schleidt, M. D. Shalter, H. Moura-Neto
2011
Walter T. Herbranson and Julia Schroeder
2010
Masahiro Shibasaki
2008-09
none
2007
J. J. Neiworth et al.
2006
I. M. Pepperberg and J. D. Gordon
2005
Emma Collin-Baker, et. Al.
2004
E. Kubinyi, J. Topal, A. Miklosi, V. Csanyi
2003
none
2002
M. A. Bee, H. C. Gerhard
J. S. Watson et al.
2001
L. Parr et al
K. Okanoya et al
2000
N. S. Clayton and A. Dickinson
K. Zuberbuhler, D. Dheney and R. Seyfarth (honorable mention)
L. F. Jacobs and M. W. Shiflet (honorable mention)
1999
L. M. Herman, A. A. Pack, M. Hoffman-Kuhnt
1998
K. Hollis, et al.
A. L. Weller (honorable mention)
1997
M. J. Sleigh, R. F. Columbus, R. Lickliter
J. Mateo (honorable mention)
1987-96
none
1986
T. Freeberg, A. King, M. West