The APS Mentor Award recognizes psychology researchers and educators who have shaped the future directions of science by fostering the careers of students and colleagues. "Elizabeth Spelke...helped dozens of mentees launch careers rooted in unique, rich research questions and is known for her expertise on the cognitive capabilities of young children." Read the announcement... Read more about Elizabeth Spelke Wins 2021 APS Mentor Award
Harvard professor Elizabeth A. Phelps was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Winners of the prize are honored for a career characterized by distinguished and sustained scholarship and cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience that has the potential to revolutionize the field.
The prize is presented by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and was established in 1995 to honor the career of psychologist George A. Miller. Miller was one of...
MERIT Awards are nominated and awarded by NIH and “provide long-term, stable support to investigators whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are likely to continue to perform in an outstanding manner.”
Carey’s research examines the fundamental question of how humans construct knowledge through processes such as face processing, social cognition, numerical representation, word learning, counting, and explanation. Her studies in all of these areas...
Congratulations to grad student, Tessa Charlesworth, for being selected as a 2020 Harvard Horizons Scholar! Harvard Horizons Scholars are PhD candidates chosen for their outstanding research to receive in-depth, personalized mentoring designed to enhance their presentation skills. The program culminates in a campus-wide Harvard Horizons Symposium, which will...
The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Award recipients are APS members who are among our most creative and promising investigators.
Professor James Sidanius and colleagues have won The Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Scientific Impact Award for their 1994 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology paper titled Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes.