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Congratulations to our 2025 Early Career Award Recipients!
Recipients will receive an award during the Awards Ceremony & Business Meeting at the 2025 Annual Meeting, held from November 20-23 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.
Overview
The Psychonomic Society will confer scientific awards each year upon scientists who have made excellent scientific contributions to the field of cognitive psychology early in their careers.
The purpose of the Early Career Award (ECA) is to raise the visibility of our science by recognizing excellent scientists within the field. Many universities are carefully scrutinizing departments and programs in deciding upon the deployment of limited resources. Among the most important criteria are those that indicate academic and scientific quality. In the recent NRC rankings of graduate programs, “number of academic awards” was among the criteria that contributed to assessing program quality. By including the voice of the Psychonomic Society in such assessments, we can contribute to the continued strength of our field.
Each year the Psychonomic Society will name up to four (4) ECA awardees.
One nominee, whose research is closest to the areas of perception and attention, will receive the Steven Yantis Early Career Award. The recipients will receive formal recognition at the PS Awards & Business Meeting during the 2025 Annual Meeting and will receive an award,
a $2,500 cash prize, complimentary registration, and economy airfare. Additionally, their
names will be displayed permanently on the Society’s website.
Eligibility
The
Psychonomic Society is committed to recognizing excellent scientific contributions, which entails the
inclusion of all scientists regardless of gender, race, sexual
orientation, disability status, country of origin, geographic location,
and disciplinary expertise.
Please critically examine your deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit.
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Nominees will normally have completed their PhD within 10 years
of the nomination deadline, though exceptions of up to 2 years will be
considered. If a two-year extension is required, the reason (e.g., parental leave, medical leave, etc.) for the extension should be provided.
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The nominee must be a Psychonomic Society Member or Fellow in good standing.
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The nominee may be asked to complete an optional equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire.
Nomination Procedures
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The nomination must be submitted by March 31, 2025, using the appropriate form.
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Nominations may be made by any Psychonomic Society Member, Fellow, or Emeritus Member of Fellow in good standing. Current Governing Board members cannot be nominees, nominators, and cannot write letters of support for nominees.
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Self-nominations are not permitted.
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Nominations must include:
- A list of the nominee's four (4) most significant publications and other scholarship (e.g. grants, books), with an explanation of their exceptional impact and consideration of their rigor and transparency.
- Highlights of the nominee's service to the field (e.g. involvement in societies, conference committees, editing, reviewing).
- A summary of the
nominee's involvement in the Psychonomic Society (e.g. presentation and
attendance at meetings; publications in journals; other service).
- Highlights of the nominee's contributions to outreach and diversity, equity, and inclusion (including mentorship).
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Nominee's most recent CV.
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Two (2) letters of recommendation, including:
- A letter of recommendation from the nominator.
- A letter of recommendation from another Psychonomic Society Member, Fellow, or Emeritus Member in good standing.
Selection Process
The Governing Board will designate one member of the Governing Board to serve as chair of the Awards Committee, and additional Members of the Society to serve on the Awards Committee reflecting the areas of research that are characteristic of the Society. The Awards Committee will review nominations via conference call and make recommendations about each award to the Governing Board by May 10, which will review and vote via email on whether to endorse the recommendations. When two candidates are deemed equal by the committee, the final selection will favor candidates who identify as being part of equity-deserving and underrepresented groups.
Final decisions will be made before June 1, allowing awardees to submit abstracts to the meeting. The Psychonomic Society will arrange for plaques or framed award documents to be presented at the Annual Meeting. The names and citations of the awardees will be published in the program of the Annual Meeting.
The Society will seek to reward excellence in any area of research relevant to the Society. Over the course of several years, the committee will make an effort to distribute awards over all the areas characteristic of the Society.
Questions
Contact Member Services at info@psychonomic.org. Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT (U.S.
Central Time)
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Psychonomic Society
Early Career Award
Recipients
2025
Univeristy of York, UK
University of Missouri, USA
University College Cork, Ireland
2024
University of Denver, USA
University of Michigan, USA
Case Western Reserve University, USA
2023
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Ghent University, Belgium
Elizabeth Chrastil
University of California, Irvine, USA
University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Claremont McKenna College, USA
2022
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Duke University, USA
Brendan T. Johns
McGill University, Canada
University of Mannheim, Germany
Temple University, USA
2021
Hui ChenSteven Yantis Early Career Award
Zhejiang University, China
University of Nottingham, UK
University of Ottawa, Canada
University of Regina, Canada
2020
Brock University, Canada
University of York, UK
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2019
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Texas A&M University, USA
University of California, San Diego, USA
University of Kent, UK
The Ohio State University, USA
2018
Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Recognition memory
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Cognition and education
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of California San Diego, USA
Adaptive behavior
Boston College, USA
Moral judgment and social cognition
2017
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Working Memory
University of Waterloo, Canada
Embodied and Embedded Cognition
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Purdue University, USA
Cognitive Control
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Forgetting in Human Memory
2016
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Speech perception
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of New South Wales, Australia
Cognitive models
Michigan State University, USA
Memory
Vanderbilt University, USA
Judgment and decision making
2015
University of Illinois, USA
Language
University of Chicago, USA
Cognitive diversity
University of Notre Dame, USA
Learning, memory, and emotion
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Executive control
2014
Indiana University, USA
Cognition and Computation
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Life span language and cognition
Kent State University, USA
Learning and memory
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Colorado State University, USA
Perception and action
2013
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
Northwestern University, USA
Visual spatial attention
Purdue University, USA
Learning and memory
Florida State University, USA
Language comprehension
University of Iowa, USA
Developmental science
2012
University of Chicago, USA
Memory and performance
Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of Newcastle, Australia
Models of response time
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Causal induction
University of Oregon, USA
Working memory
Other awards from the
Psychonomic Society
Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award
Mid-Career Award
Best Article Award
Graduate Travel Award
J. Frank Yates
Student Travel Award
Supporting diversity & inclusion
in cognitive psychology
Student Travel Award from Developing Nations
Psychonomic Society/Women
in Cognitive Science Travel and Networking Award for Junior Scientists
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