{"title":"Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Brian J. Hall.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000953","url":null,"abstract":"The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Two awards are given: one to a senior psychologist and a second to a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest in the early stages of his or her career. The 2021 recipients of the APA Awards for Distinguished Contributions in the Public Interest were selected by the 2020 Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest Awards. Brian J. Hall, PhD, is seen as one of the most outstanding psychologists in China and is well deserving of the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Award due to his exceptional accomplishments as an independent investigator, scholar, and educator. Dr. Hall possesses a rare blend of research skills, productivity, academic, and personal vision, the ability to take risks to obtain his goals, and a sincere and abiding interest in mentoring junior investigators. Dr. Hall has conducted ground-breaking work among migrants in China and works tirelessly to bring the best of psychology and public health to disadvantaged communities around the world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127625895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Megan R. Gunnar.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000947","url":null,"abstract":"The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2021 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2020 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2020 Committee on Scientific Awards. For her seminal contributions to elucidating the associations between stress response systems and human behavioral development; for linking these associations to our understanding of how early caregiver experiences moderate stress physiology and facilitate coping in young children; for translating our knowledge about early biopsychosocial development to inform child care policies pertinent to children and adolescents; and for making substantive theoretical contributions to developmental science. Megan R. Gunnar has ushered new ways of thinking about stress to the field of psychology as well as provided strong and generous scientific leadership, leaving a lasting and inspiring impact on psychological science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124342889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychology of gender: Addressing misconceptions and setting goals for the field.","authors":"C. Moss‐Racusin","doi":"10.1037/amp0000930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000930","url":null,"abstract":"As an active interdisciplinary subfield, the psychology of gender has made major contributions to social psychology, and to psychological science more broadly. And yet, it has often been viewed as a special-interest area producing less rigorous work than other subfields. Such unduly negative perceptions may undermine the extent to which developments in gender-related scholarship ultimately contribute to broader scientific and social advances. The current work seeks to address common misconceptions about the psychology of gender, both by highlighting impactful contributions from existing work and identifying opportunities for further research. To do so, it discusses three specific misconceptions that may distort the assessment (and ultimately limit the impact) of work in this field. It also presents three underlying goals for future programs of gender-related scholarship. It does so in service of the broader goal of extending the robust body of existing research into new generations of gender science that are rigorous, inclusive, impactful, and can serve as the foundation for both scientific and social progress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114518545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaling up psychological treatments: Lessons learned from global mental health.","authors":"D. Singla","doi":"10.1037/amp0000944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000944","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based psychological treatments are among the most effective interventions in medicine and are recommended as the first line of treatment to address the significant burden of depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders worldwide. Despite this evidence, these treatments remain inaccessible for the great majority of the world's population. Global Mental Health (GMH) is an evolving discipline of research and practice that places a priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide. Equity is a driving principle, and this recognizes that inequalities exist within all nations and between nations. At the heart of this equity, there is the need for person-centered care. This essay discusses how GMH has sought to address a range of barriers to scale up the delivery of psychological treatments for common mental disorders. While the initial focus of the field has been to address access to quality care in low- and middle-income countries, this article also draws attention to how similar strategies are being implemented at scale in some high-income countries, with appropriate modifications to suit the context. In considering some of these evidence-based, contextually driven strategies, psychological communities have potential to address the growing burden of depression and anxiety worldwide. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114692677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual metacognition: Measures, models, and neural correlates.","authors":"D. Rahnev","doi":"10.1037/amp0000937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000937","url":null,"abstract":"Visual metacognition is the ability to evaluate one's performance on visual perceptual tasks. The field of visual metacognition unites the long tradition of visual psychophysics with the younger field of metacognition research. This article traces the historical roots of the field and reviews progress in the areas of (a) constructing appropriate measures of metacognitive ability, (b) developing computational models, and (c) revealing the neural correlates of visual metacognition. First, I review the most popular measures of metacognitive ability with an emphasis on their psychophysical properties. Second, I examine the empirical targets for modeling, the dominant modeling frameworks and the assumed computations underlying visual metacognition. Third, I explore the progress on understanding the neural correlates of visual metacognition by focusing on anatomical and functional studies, as well as causal manipulations. What emerges is a picture of substantial progress on constructing measures, developing models, and revealing the neural correlates of metacognition, but very little integration between these three areas of inquiry. I then explore the deep, intrinsic links between the three areas of research and argue that continued progress requires the recognition and exploitation of these links. Throughout, I discuss the implications of progress in visual metacognition for other areas of metacognition research, and pinpoint specific advancements that could be adopted by researchers working in other subfields of metacognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115486946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Daisy R. Singla.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000950","url":null,"abstract":"The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 2021 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The 2021 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2020 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2020 Committee on Scientific Awards. For innovative research in the area of global mental health with an emphasis on improving access to evidence-based psychological therapies to historically under-served populations. Daisy R. Singla has emerged as a leader in the strategy of task-sharing of interventions to non-specialist providers, and her work spans the design of culturally adapted interventions, the assessment of competencies, and the implementation of measurement-based peer supervision, in the context of large pragmatic clinical trials in real-world settings in three continents. Her work also incorporates rigorous tests of moderation and mediation in the process of reducing inequities in access to evidence-based mental health care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128602573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award: James P. Dunlea.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000955","url":null,"abstract":"Presents James P. Dunlea as the 2021 winner of the American Psychological Association Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award. The award is given for an exceptional research paper titled, 'Children's and Adults' Understanding of Punishment and the Criminal Justice System.' This work suggests that children largely conceptualize incarceration as stemming from both internal and behavioral factors, whereas adults primarily attribute incarceration as stemming from behaviors. Neither children nor adults readily generated or agreed with societal explanations for incarceration. Importantly, a similar pattern emerged across groups of children with different experiences with the criminal justice system. The research for the paper was conducted at Columbia University with a faculty advisor, Larisa Heiphetz, PhD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"76 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130168501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/a0035017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035017","url":null,"abstract":"The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. A qualified candidate must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved population in an applied setting or have developed an innovative method for delivering health services to an underserved population. When two graduate students are equally qualified, the award may be shared. The 2021 recipients of the APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology were selected by the Awards Subcommittee of the 2020 Board of Professional Affairs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126550743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Joseph Patrick Gone.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000921","url":null,"abstract":"The Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research is given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology. The 2021 recipient is Joseph P. Gone, for \"extraordinary contributions to the application of psychological knowledge for American Indian peoples. A central problem defining his scholarship is the (post)colonial predicament of psychological services in 'Indian Country.' On one hand, enduring mental health disparities underscore the need for more and better mental health services. On the other, conventional psychosocial approaches to professional treatment depend on concepts, categories, principles, and practices routinely identified by community authorities and formal research as culturally foreign and experientially irrelevant for many American Indians. In response, Gone has elaborated promising new approaches to making mental health services more accessible, culturally appropriate, and demonstrably effective for alleviating debilitating distress among American Indians through three lines of research. He has documented how Indigenous peoples locally construe various facets of mind, self, identity, emotion, social relations, communication, wellness, dysfunction, and healing (i.e., ethnopsychological investigations). He has demonstrated ways in which these local construals converge with and diverge from standard approaches in professional mental health practice (i.e., assessments of cultural commensurability). And he has formulated ways that applied psychologists can use these understandings to partner with Indigenous communities to implement and evaluate alternative interventions that remain culturally consonant and robustly therapeutic (i.e., therapeutic innovations).\" (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125183489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology: James H. Sidanius.","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/amp0000949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000949","url":null,"abstract":"The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2021 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2020 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2020 Committee on Scientific Awards. For profound contributions to social, personality, and political psychology. Crossing levels of analysis from social science to evolutionary biology, James H. Sidanius's work is exemplary on theoretical,methodological, and empirical grounds and is widely regarded for its societal significance. He used sophisticated statistical techniques to analyze the cognitive-motivational basis of political ideology and the role of racial resentment in public opinion. He was an early advocate and practitioner of collecting data from different societies and cultures. The development of social dominance theory represents a milestone in the scientific understanding of intergroup dynamics, social hierarchy, and the psychology of oppression. His work was often provocative and controversial, and he played a key role in important debates concerning racism, sexism, and world politics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":217617,"journal":{"name":"The American psychologist","volume":"505 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133178773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}