Steven O. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is pleased to announce the seven recipients of its 2021 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. The Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science.
“The winners of the 2021 Spence Award have shown innovative research ideas and made meaningful contributions that have helped advance psychological science,” said APS President Shinobu Kitayama (University of Michigan). “I join my colleagues in applauding the zeal and creative work of these remarkable individuals.”
APS represents more than 30,000 leading scientists, academics, clinicians, researchers, educators, administrators, and students from more than 80 countries.
The Spence Award is named in honor of Janet Taylor Spence, the first elected APS President. Spence’s career exemplified transformative contributions to psychological science. She developed new approaches to research and pioneering tools, including the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Attitudes Toward Women Scale. She also epitomized the spirit of crossing disciplinary boundaries with work on topics ranging from schizophrenia to developmental psychology to gender bias.
2021 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award Recipients
The 2021 award recipients will be featured in the March/April Observer, the APS member magazine, and honored publicly in 2021. Please contact Charles Blue at cblue@psychologicalscience.org for more information.