• Annual Awards

• Service Awards

• Media Awards

• Student Awards

• The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology

Annual Awards

• The Jack Block Award honors a scholar for his or her research accomplishment in personality psychology. Recipients are known for their analytic sophistication, theoretical depth, and the quality and breadth of their scholarship.
  
• The Donald T. Campbell Award is awarded for distinguished scholarly achievement and ongoing sustained excellence in research in social psychology.
  
• The Career Contribution Award (new in 2011) honors a scholar who has made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas. Recipients are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers.
  
• The Cialdini Award is awarded to the author(s) of a publication in a given year that uses field methods and demonstrates relevance to outside groups. The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology (FPSP) endows this award.
  
• The Diener Award in Personality Psychology and the Diener Award in Social Psychology recognize two scholars (approximately 15-25 years from their first tenure-track appointment) whose work substantially adds to the body of knowledge in these two fields and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology. The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology (FPSP) endows this award.
  
• The Distinguished Scholar Award (new in 2012) recognizes the broad scope and potentially integrative nature of scholarship in personality and social psychology. The award honors a scholar who has made distinctively valuable research contributions across his or her career in areas that expand the core of social and personality research and/or integrates different topics in the discipline in significant ways.
  
• The Methodological Innovation Award (new in 2012) recognizes an individual who has made a significant or sustained contribution to innovative methods in social and personality psychology. The award recognizes contributions that are especially likely to generate the discovery of new hypotheses, new phenomena, or new ways of thinking about the discipline of social/personality psychology.
  
• The Theoretical Innovation Prize recognizes an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to social/personality psychology within a given year.
  

Service Awards

• The Award for Distinguished Service to the Society recognizes distinguished service, either in the form of a particular, significant activity or cumulative contributions over time, to the Society.
  
  
• The Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology recognizes distinguished efforts by individuals to benefit the field of social and personality psychology.

Media Awards

SPSP confers three Media Awards (Note: may not be awarded annually):

• The Media Achievement Award honors a person, normally outside the SPSP community, who has a sustained and distinguished record for disseminating knowledge in personality or social psychology to the general public through popular media.
  
  
• The Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (new in 2012) Honors a book written by a psychologist that makes a distinctive and important contribution to the field by promoting an understanding of the science of social and personality psychology to the general public.
  
  
• The Media Prize recognizes a person, normally outside the SPSP community, providing the best piece in popular media that represents the contributions of personality or social psychology to the general public in a given calendar year.

Student Awards

SPSP grants several student awards for research and travel. For information on these awards, please see the Student Awards page.

The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology is a recently formed organization that has been established to raise funds and sponsor philanthropic activities advancing the discipline. As a non-profit charitable organization incorporated in the state of New York, the Foundation is an independent entity legally separate from related organizations, but shares the commitment of those organizations to personality and social psychology. It focuses on development and fundraising, seeking gifts and donations to fund activities that would augment and broaden the vigor of personality and social psychology. In doing so, it seeks to provide crucial support for forward-looking and long-term activities supporting discovery and teaching in personality and social psychology.