The Society for Personality and Social Psychology is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Student Publication Awards.   Papers were eligible for the award if they were first authored by a student and published during 2011 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin or in Personality and Social Psychology Review.  The winners are:

Dr. Christine Ma-Kellams, for the paper:

Christine Ma-Kellams, Julie Spencer-Rodgers, and Kaiping Peng (2011). I Am Against Us? Unpacking Cultural Differences in Ingroup Favoritism via Dialecticism. PSPB, 37, 15-27.

Dr. Lisa Shu, for the paper:

Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman (2011). Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting. PSPB, 37, 330-349.

Dr. Laura Babbitt, for the paper:

Laura G. Babbitt and Samuel R. Sommers (2011) Framing Matters : Contextual Influences on Interracial Interaction Outcomes.  PSPB, 37,1233-1244.

The winning papers were selected by the SPSP Publications Committee (Diane Mackie,  Carolyn Morf, and John Levine).  The committee was impressed that each of these papers tackled a societally important issue using sophisticated theorizing and multiple studies with triangulating methods.  Each paper makes a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the field.  Congratulations to all three winners and their co-authors.