Dissertation Award Recipients
Dissertation Award Recipients
SESP has honored outstanding dissertation research since 1972. Listed below are the previous award winners (in bold) and finalists.
Year | Recipient and Finalists | Ph.D. Institution | Advisor |
2022 | Joshua C. Jackson | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Kurt Gray |
Nathan Cheek | Princeton University | Eldar Shafir | |
Ruddy Faure | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Francesca Righetti | |
2021 | Katherine Zee | Columbia University | Niall Bolger & Tory Higgins |
Lydia Emery | Northwestern University | Eli Finkel | |
Oriane Georgeac | London Business School | Aneeta Rattan | |
2020 | David Melnikoff | Yale University | John Bargh |
Sarah Lamer | University of Denver | Max Weisbuch | |
Laura Wallace | The Ohio State University | Duane Wegener | |
2019 | Gregg Sparkman | Stanford Univerity | Gregory Walton |
David Levari | Harvard University | Dan Gilbert | |
Eftychia Stamkou | University of Amsterdam | Gerben van Kleef & Astrid Homan | |
2018 | Gus Cooney | Harvard University | Daniel Gilbert |
Jesse R. Harrington | University of Maryland | Michelle Gelfand | |
Katherine Thorson | New York University | Tessa West | |
2017 | Alex Koch | University of Cologne | Christian Unkelbach |
Peter Van Dessel | University of Ghent | Jan De Houwer | |
Evan Carr | UC-San Diego | Piotr Winkielman | |
Yonat Zwebner | Hebrew University | Jacob Goldenberg | |
2016 | Yuthika Girme | University of Auckland | Nickola Overall |
Jennifer Howell | University of Florida | James Shepperd | |
Amit Kumar | Cornell University | Tom Gilovich | |
2015 | Namkje Koudenburg | University of Groningen | Tom Postmes & Ernestine Gordijn |
Shana Cole | New York University | Emily Balcetis | |
Jozefien De Leersnyder | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Batja Mesquita & Karen Phalet | |
2014 | Paul Conway | University of Western Ontario | James Olson & Bertram Gawronski |
Lottie Bullens | University of Amsterdam | Jens Förster & Joop van der Pligt | |
Erin P. Hennes | New York University | John Jost | |
2013 | Joni Sasaki | University of California, Santa Barbara | Heejung Kim |
Jon Freeman | Tufts University | Nalini Ambady | |
Ann-Christin Posten | University of Koln | Thomas Mussweiler | |
2012 | Ron Dotsch | Radboud University Nijmegen | Daniël Wigboldus & Ad van Knippenberg |
Dylan Wagner | Dartmouth University | Todd Heatherton | |
Francesca Righetti | Vrije Universiteit | Paul van Lange & Catrin Finkenauer | |
2011 | Matthijs Baas | University of Amsterdam | Carsten de Dreu |
Mina Cikara | Princeton University | Susan Fiske | |
Jesse Graham | University of Virginia | Jon Haidt | |
2010 | Paul Eastwick | Northwestern University | Eli Finkel, Alice Eagly |
Evan Apfelbaum | Tufts University | Sam Sommers | |
Marret Noordewier | Tilburg University | Diederik Stapel | |
2009 | Kristina Olson | Harvard University | Mahzarin R. Banaji |
Jay J. Van Bavel | University of Toronto | William A. Cunningham | |
Cheryl Wakslak | New York University | Yaacov Trope | |
2008 | Edward Lemay | Yale University | Margaret Clark |
Emily Amanatullah | Columbia University | Michael W. Morris | |
Stéphane Dandeneau | McGill University | Mark Baldwin | |
Mark J. Landau | University of Arizona | Jeff Greenberg | |
2007 | Emily Balcetis | Cornell University | David Dunning |
Markus Denzler | Jacobs University Bremen | Jens Förster | |
Carey Morewedge | Harvard University | Daniel Wegner, Daniel Gilbert | |
2006 | Gregory Walton | Yale University | Geoff Cohen |
Naomi Eisenberger | UCLA | Shelly Gable, Shelley Taylor | |
Aaron Kay | Stanford University | John Jost, Lee Ross | |
2005 | Pamela K. Smith | New York University | Yaacov Trope |
Etsuko H. Browne | University of Waterloo | Steven Spencer, Mark Zanna | |
Erica Carranza | Princeton University | Deborah Prentice | |
Gerben van Kleef | University of Amsterdam | C. de Dreu, Tony Manstead | |
2004 | Rick van Baaren | University of Nijmegen | Knippenberg, Kawakami |
Zakary L. Tormala | Ohio State University | Richard Petty | |
J. Mark Weber | Northwestern University | Keith Murnighan | |
2003 | Faby Gagné | McGill University | John Lydon |
Bianca Beersma | Amsterdam University | Carsten de Dreu | |
Anja Eller | University of Kent | Dominic Abrams | |
2002 | Heejung S. Kim | Stanford University | Hazel Markus |
Nicholas Epley | Cornell University | Tom Gilovich | |
Michael Inzlicht | Brown University | Talia Ben-Zeev | |
2001 | Bernard Nijstad | University of Utrecht | Wolfgang Stroebe |
Jason Plaks | Columbia University | Carol Dweck | |
E. Ashby Plant | University of Wisconsin | Patricia Devine | |
2000 | Ayelet Fishbach | Tel Aviv University | Yaacov Trope |
Tanya Chartrand | New York University | John Bargh | |
Nanmathi Manian | University of Wisconsin | Timothy Strauman | |
1999 | Blair Jarvis | Ohio State University | Richard Petty |
Adam Galinsky | Princeton University | Gordon Moskowitz | |
Ian Skurnik | Princeton University | Gordon Moskowitz | |
1998 | S. Sethi-Iyengar | Stanford University | Mark Lepper |
Nira Liberman | Tel Aviv University | Yaacov Trope | |
Patrick Vargas | Ohio State University | Rich Petty, Bill von Hippel | |
1997 | Lorella Lepore | University of Kent | Rupert Brown |
Steven Heine | Univ. of British Columbia | Darrin Lehman | |
C. Raymond Knee | University of Rochester | Miron Zuckerman | |
1996 | Victoria Medvec | Cornell University | Thomas Gilovich |
1995 | Bertram Malle | Stanford University | Leonard Horowitz |
Sandra Murray | University of Waterloo | John Holmes | |
Duane Wegener | Ohio State University | Richard Petty | |
1994 | Deb Gruenfeld | University of Illinois | Robert Wyer, Joe McGrath |
Eric Depret | Univ. of Massachusetts | Susan Fiske | |
Andrea Hollingshead | University of Illinois | Joe McGrath | |
Steve Spencer | University of Michigan | Claude Steele | |
1993 | Michael Morris | University of Michigan | Richard Nisbett |
Sara Baker | Ohio State University | Richard Petty | |
David Bersoff | Yale University | Joan Miller | |
Yi-Cheng Lin | University of Rochester | Harry Reis | |
1992 | Kari Edwards | University of Michigan | P. Ellsworth, R. Zajonc |
Deborah Kashy | University of Connecticut | David Kenny | |
Mark Klinger | University of Washington | Anthony Greenwald | |
Margo Monteith | University of Wisconsin | Patricia Devine | |
1991 | Yuichi Shoda | Columbia University | Walter Mischel |
Sheila Murphy | University of Michigan | Robert Zajonc | |
Michael Zárate | Purdue University | Eliot Smith | |
1990 | Leonard Newman | New York University | Diane Ruble |
David Houston | Indiana University | Steven J. Sherman | |
Brett Pelham | Univ. of Texas--Austin | Daniel Gilbert | |
Rasyid Sanitioso | Princeton University | Ziva Kunda | |
1989 | Yechiel Klar | University of Maryland | Arie Kruglanski |
Shinobu Kitayama | University of Michigan | Robert Zajonc | |
Leigh Thompson | Northwestern University | Reid Hastie | |
1988 | Lee Jussim | University of Michigan | Lerita Coleman |
Timothy Strauman | New York University | E. Tory Higgins | |
Steven Neuberg | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Susan Fiske | |
1987 | Peter Shapiro | Univ. of Wisconsin | Vernon Allen |
Edward Hirt | Indiana University | Steven J. Sherman | |
Charles Stangor | New York University | E. Tory Higgins | |
1986 | Roderick Kramer | UCLA | Marilynn Brewer |
Ziva Kunda | University of Michigan | Richard Nisbett | |
Patricia Devine | Ohio State University | Thomas Ostrom | |
Ralph Erber | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Susan Fiske | |
1985 | Diane Mackie | Princeton University | Joel Cooper |
Stan Klein | Harvard University | Peter Gordon | |
Laraine Winter | New York University | Jim Uleman | |
1984 | Leonard Martin | UNC--Greensboro | John Seta |
Steven Breckler | Ohio State University | Anthony Greenwald | |
1983 | Paget Gross | Princeton University | John Darley |
Renee Weber | Northwestern University | Reid Hastie | |
1982 | John Bargh | University of Michigan | Robert Zajonc |
Susan Andersen | Stanford University | Lee Ross | |
Richard Ryan | University of Rochester | Ed Deci | |
1981 | Ann Boggiano | Princeton University | Diane Ruble |
1980 | Steven Penrod | Harvard University | Reid Hastie |
Fred Rhodewalt | Princeton University | Ronald Comer | |
1979 | Nancy Cantor | Stanford University | Walter Mischel |
Susan Fiske | Harvard University | Shelley Taylor | |
1978 | Donal Carlston | University of Illinois | Robert Wyer |
Teresa Amabile | Stanford University | Mark Lepper | |
Richard Petty | Ohio State University | Timothy Brock | |
1977 | Richard Lippa | Stanford University | Daryl Bem |
Malcolm Brenner | University of Michigan | Robert Zajonc | |
Harriet Shaklee | University of Oregon | Robyn Dawes | |
1976 | Thomas Srull | University of Illinois | Robert Wyer |
1975 | Yaacov Trope | University of Michigan | Eugene Burnstein |
1974 | David Wilder | University of Wisconsin | Vernon Allen |
1973 | Mark Snyder | Stanford University | Daryl Bem |
1972 | Darren Newtson | University of Wisconsin | Vernon Allen |