Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Christopher Krupenye.

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 his inspiring work in elucidating the nature of animal thought, Christopher Krupenye is a 2024 award winner. His methodological creativity has revealed ways in which a range of species represent the minds of others, showing that in the absence of language, primates think about others' goal states, ignorance, and false beliefs. His work offers key evidence for the question of whether human behavior is evolutionarily ingrained or results from human-specific culture and socialization practices. Christopher Krupenye's research holds the promise to shed light on one of the most challenging questions in cognitive science: What is human thinking and how did it evolve? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).