Started in 2008, the Robert B. Cialdini Prize recognizes the author(s) of a publication that uses field methods and demonstrates relevance to outside groups. It is designed to recognize the publication that best explicates social psychological phenomena principally through the use of field research methods and settings and that thereby demonstrates the relevance of the discipline to communities outside of academic social psychology within a given year.

This prize is intended to encourage work that both uses field methods and settings and has external applicability to outside communities. This prize is not intended for solely laboratory studies that have societal applicability, although reports that incorporate a small number of lab studies in the publication package will not be excluded from consideration if the bulk of the work was completed in the field.

The term “field research methods” is meant to be inclusive of field experiments, and is not limited to correlational or nonexperimental approaches. The term “field research settings” is meant to include naturally-occurring domains in which research participants can expect to find themselves under normal life circumstances and in which they are unlikely to suppose that they are research participants.

Recipients of this prize will receive up to $1000 ($1500 International) in travel expenses to be split among all contributors, complimentary registration, and a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention. This prize was endowed by Robert Cialdini through the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology.

• Research: Social psychology, demonstrated a research focus in social psychology, but can span any research area within social psychology
• Research: Field Methods and Settings, bulk of work is conducted in the field (some laboratory experimental work is)
• Research: Societal relevance, demonstrated through external applicability to outside communities, demonstrates relevance of social psychology to communities outside of academic social psychology
• Research: Use of field settings, research is conducted in naturally-occurring domains in which research participants can expect to find themselves in normal life circumstances and in which they are unlikely to realize they are research participants
• Research, Quality: High-quality idea; published in high-impact journal; likely to be highly cited
• Writing, Quality: Demonstrated through organization, content, and mechanics of writing

Requirements

• Eligible papers must have been published in peer-reviewed journals or as book chapters during the calendar year prior to nomination. For example, to be nominated in 2024, the publication must have been printed in calendar year 2023. Papers and chapters still "in press" are not eligible.

Submission Criteria

• An electronic version of the nominated piece (in PDF or .doc format)
• A summary of how the article fits the Rubric
• If the nominated piece is a chapter and does not contain an abstract, a 150-word abstract must also be included

Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.

Applications closed

2022

"Lifting the bar: A relationship-orienting intervention reduces recidivism among children reentering school from juvenile detention" - Gregory M. Walton, Kathleen Remington Cunningham, Daniel Hurst, Elizabeth Weitz,  and Jennifer L. Eberhardt; Jason A. Okonofua, Andres Pinedo, Juan P. Ospina, and Hattie Tate

2021

"When "Enemies Become Close: Relationship Formation Among Palestinians and Jewish Israelis at a Youth Camp" - Jane Risen, Juliana Schroeder, Shannon Michelle White

2020

"Participatory practices at work change attitudes and behavior toward societal authority and justice" - Sherry Jueyu Wu and Betsy Levy Paluck

2019

"Quitting When the Going Gets Tough: A Downside of High Performance Expectations" - Hengchen Dai, Berkeley J. Dietvorst, Bradford Tuckfield, Katherine L. Milkman and Maurice E. Schweitzer

2018

"Language from Police Body Camera Footage Shows Racial Disparities in Officer Respect" - Rob Voigt, Nicholas Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, William Hamilton, Rebecca Hetey, Camilla Griffiths, David Jurgens, Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt

2017

"Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing" - David Broockman and Joshua Kalla

"Brief Intervention to Encourage Empathic Discipline Cuts Suspension Rates in Half Among Adolescents" - Jason Okonofua, Gregory Walton, and David Paunesku

2016

"When Tex and Tess Carpenter Build Houses in Texas: Moderators of Implicit Egotism" - Brett Pelham and Mauricio Carvallo

2015

"Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust: Wise Interventions to Provide Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide" - David Scott Yeager, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, Patti Brzustoski, Allison Master, William Hessert, Matthew Williams, and Geoffrey Cohen

2014

"Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: How self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat" - David Sherman, Geoffrey Cohen, Kimberly Hartson, Kevin Binning, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Julio Garcia, Suzanne Tabrosky-Barba, Sarah Tomassetti, and David Nussbaum

2013

"Helping parents to motivate adolescents in mathematics and science: An experimental test of a utility-value intervention"  - Judith Harackiewicz, ‪Christopher Rozek, Chris S. Hulleman, and Janet Shibley Hyde

2012

 "Temper, Temperature, and Temptation: Heat-related Retaliation in Baseball" - Richard P. Larrick, Thomas A. Timmerman, Andrew M. Carton and Jason Abrevaya

2011

"Shared Social Responsibility: A Field Experiment in Pay-What-You-Want Pricing and Charitable Giving" - Ayelet Gneezy, Uri Gneezy, Leif Nelson, and Amber Brown

2010

"Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: A field experiment in Rwanda" - Elizabeth Levy Paluck

2009

"The spreading of disorder" - Kees Keizer, ‪Siegwart Lindenberg, Linda Steg

2008

"Reducing explicit and implicit prejudice via direct and extended contact: The mediating role of self-disclosure and intergroup anxiety" - Rhiannon Turner, Miles Hewstone, A. Voci

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Started in 2011, the Career Contribution Award is a senior career award that honors a scholar who has made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas together. This award may recognize recipients who have been under-recognized for their distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers.

Recipients of this award receive up to $1000 in travel ($1500 International), complimentary convention registration, up to three hotel nights at the convention hotel, and a plaque, with acknowledgment at the annual Awards Ceremony held at the SPSP Annual Convention. 
 

• Research: Theoretical advancement, demonstrated through highly influential theoretical work that clearly demonstrates research impact over the career (through citations, grants, paper awards, or other metrics)
• Research: Scholarly leadership, demonstrated through an exceptional ability to effectively lead and collaborate in diverse research team(s) (based on identities, multi-site, international, across career stages, and/or multidisciplinary, etc.)

Requirements

• Recipients will be senior scholars who have made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas and have been under-recognized for their distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive.

Submission Criteria

• Five hundred words or less detailing the nominee’s major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas.
• Nominee's current vita in electronic format with a list of publications.
• Recipient should not have previously been awarded an SPSP senior career award (these include the Block Award, Campbell Award, Distinguished Scholar Award, Career Contribution Award, Methodological Innovator Award, and Application Award).

Submissions will be accepted from February 8 – April 20, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.

Applications closed

2022

Paula Niedenthal, Constantine Sedikides

2021

2020

Jennifer Eberhardt, the team of Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon

2019

Patricia Devine

2018

Naomi Ellemers, William B. Swann, Jr.

2017

Judith A. Hall

Shinobu Kitayama

2016

David Sears, Michael Ross

2015

Harry Reis, PhD, Yaacov Trope, PhD

2014

Phoebe C. Ellsworth, PhD, Letitia Anne Peplau

2013

C. Daniel Batson, PhD, Jim Sidanius, PhD

2012

Samuel Gaertner, Phillip Shaver

2011

Thomas Pettigrew, Harry Triandis

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