The Social Issues Dissertation Award Winners

Year Name Essay Title 1976 Reid J. Daitzman (First Prize) Personality Correlates of Androgens and Estrogens

Michael J. Saks (Second Prize) Jury Decision-Making as a Function of Group Size and Social Decision Rule 1977 Ronald Roesch (First Prize) Competency to Stand Trial: An Analysis of Legal/Mental Health Issues and Procedures and a Proposal for Change

Robin DiMatteo (Co-Second) The Sensitive Physician: Physician Characteristics as Predictors of Effectiveness and Patient Rapport

Geoffrey Maruyama (Co-Second) A Causal Model Analysis of Variables Related to Primary School Achievement 1978 Jean Linney (First Prize) A Multivariable, Multilevel Analysis of a Midwestern City's Court-ordered Desegregation

Lawrence J. Becker (Second Prize) Reinterpreting the Motivational Effects of Feedback and Goal Setting on Performance: A Field Study of Residential Energy Conservation 1979 Thelma J. Wirtenberg (First Prize) Expanding Girls' Occupational Potential: A Case Study of the Implementation of Title IX's Anti-Sex Segregation Provision in the Seventh Grade Practical Arts

(Second Prize) An Attributional Model of Depression: Tchia Litman-Adizes Laboratory and Clinical Investigations

1980 C. David Gartrell (Co-First) The Social Evaluation of Compensation: Public Employees in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Steven Penrod (Co-First) Study of Attorney and 'Scientific' Jury Selection Models 1981 Ghislaine Boulanger (First Prize) Conditions Affecting the Appearance and Maintenance of Traumatic Stress Reactions Among Vietnam Veterans

John Magenau (Co-Second) A Laboratory Investigation of Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures in Bargaining

Lois A. Weithorn (Co-Second) Competency to Render Informed Treatment Decisions: A Comparison of Certain Minors and Adults 1982 Nancy A. Goodban Attributions about Poverty

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 1983 Edward P. Mulvey (First Prize) Resource Availability, Agency Type, and Clinical Judgments of Amenability of Treatment in Juvenile Offenders

Barbara Bess Brown (Second Prize) Territoriality, Street Form, and Residential Burglary: Social and Environmental Analysis 1984 Mary Ruggiero (First Prize) Work as an Impetus to Delinquency: An Examination of Theoretical and Empirical Connections

Judith Rollins (Second Prize) The Social Psychology of the Relationship Between Black Female Domestic Servants and Their While Female Employers 1985 Daniel Linz (First Prize) Sexual Violence in the Media: Effects on Male Viewers and Implications for Society

Andrew Ellerman (Second Prize) Radical Social Movement Participation: A Social Psychological Analysis 1986 1987 1988 Bonnie L. Katz 1989 Cris M. Sullivan (First Prize) The Implementation and Evaluation of a Community Advocacy Project for Women who Have Left Abusive Partners

Tom Jessor (Second Prize) Personal Interest, Group Conflict, and Symbolic Group Affect: Explanations for White's Opposition to Racial Equality 1990 Bruce Ambuel (First Prize) Developmental change in adolescents' Psychological and legal competence to consent to abortion: An empirical study and quantitative model of social policy

(Second Prize) Lifetimes of commitment: A Study of Molly Andrews socialist activists 1991 Sharon Gold-Steinberg (Public Policy Prize) Legal and illegal abortion: Coping with the impact of social policies on women's lives

Carolyn Mackelcan Morell (Critical Social Theory Prize) Unwomanly conduct: The challenges of intentional childlessness 1992 Sung Hee Kim (Co-First) Revenge and conflict escalation: The effects of power and audience

Yael Bat-Chava (Co-First) Group identify and self-esteem among members of a non-ethnic minority group: The case of deaf people 1993 Karla Fischer (First Prize) The psychological Impact and Meaning of Court Orders of Protection for Battered Women

Sister Mary Sarah Ducey (Second Prize) The Black Family and Adolescent Pregnancy: Cultural, Social and Psychological Factors 1994 Pamela Maras (First Prize) The Integration of Children with Disabilities into the Mainstream: Effects of School and Age on Mainstream Children’s Attitudes Toward Disability

(Second Prize) Social Psychological Dynamics of African Jeannette Diaz-Veizades American and Korean American Relations in Los Angeles

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 1995 Patricia J. Dittis (First Prize) Predicting Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: The Influence of Maternal Beliefs and Extent of Communication on Motivations for Sexual Activity

Robert T. Schatz (Second Prize) On Being a Good American: Blind versus Constructive Patriotism 1996 Kent D. Harber (First Prize) Feedback to Minorities: Egalitarian Motives, Biased Consequences

Heather Bullock (Second Prize) Attributions for Poverty: A Comparison of Middle Class and Welfare Recipient Attitudes 1997 Karen Ruggiero (First Prize) The Social Psychological Consequences of Being a Victim of Discrimination: An Analysis of Perceived Discrimination

Kathryn Anderson (Second Prize) Cognitive and Personality Predictors of Male-on-Female Aggression: An Integration of Theoretical Perspectives 1998 Richard Redding (First Prize) Relationships Between Lawyers' Socio- Political Attitudes and Their Judgments of Social Science in Legal Decision-Making

Elizabeth Ginexi (Second Prize) Situational and Psychological Predictors of Coping Responses and Mental Health Outcomes among Flood Victims 1999 Sheri Levy (First Prize) Children’s Static Versus Dynamic Conceptions of People: Their Impact on Intergroup Attitudes

(Second Prize) Attributional Determinants of Expectancies Colette van Laar and Self-Esteem Among Ethnic Minority College Students 2000 Toni Schmader (First Prize) Status Differences In Selective Devaluing: Perceived Illegitimacy Moderates the Status Value Effect

Joshua Rabinowitz (Second Prize) Interpreting the Politics of Race: The Importance of Equality Beliefs and their Implications for White Americans’ Attitudes Toward Racial Policy 2001 Jennifer Richeson (First Prize) Paradigms of Power: Social Stigma Versus Situational Status in Dyadic Interactions

Janel D. Seagal (Second Prize) Identity among Members of Stigmatized Groups: A Double-Edged Sword 2002 Mandeep K. Dhami (First Prize) Bailing and Jailing the Fast and Frugal Way: An Application of Social Judgment Theory and Simple Heuristics to English Magistrates' Remand Decisions

(Second Prize) Bias in the Absence of Malice: The Robert W. Livingston Phenomenon of Unintentional Discrimination 2003 Anja Eller (First Prize) Putting Pettigrew’s Reformulated Model to the Test: Intergroup Contact Theory in Transition

Samuel R. Sommers (Second Prize) Race and Juries: The Effects of Race- Salience and Racial Composition on Individual and Group Decision Making

Calvin M. Langton (Second Prize) Contrasting Approaches to Risk Assessment with Adult Male Sexual Offenders

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 2004 David Amodio (First Prize) Neural Signs for the Detection of Race Bias: Implications for Individual Differences in Regulatory Ability

Kurt Hugenberg (Second Prize) Facing Prejudice: Implicit Prejudice and the Perception of Facial Threat

2005 Rebecca Fauth (First Prize) Welcome to the Neighborhood? Long-Term Impacts of Moving to Low-Poverty Neighborhoods on Poor Children’s and Adolescents’ Outcomes

Aarti Iyer (Second Prize) A call to action: The role of guilt and outraged anger in predicting political action intentions to achieve racial equality 2006 Aaron C. Kay (First Prize) The role of compensatory stereotypes and attributions in system justification

Constance R. Hassett-Walker (Second Prize) Delinquency and the Black Middle Class 2007 Belle Derks (First Prize) Social Identity Threat and performance motivation: The interplay between ingroup and outgroup domains

Martijn van Zomeren (Second Prize) Social-Psychological paths to protest: An integrative perspective 2008 Sabina Čehajić (First Prize) Responsibility and Denial: Antecedents of Group-based Emotional Responses to Atrocities Committed by the Ingroup

Hulda Thorisdottir (Second Prize) The Effects of Perceived Threat on Political Attitudes: Uncertainty, Lack of Control, and Closed- Mindedness 2009 Jay Van Bavel (First Prize) Novel self-categorization overrides racial bias: A multi-level approach to intergroup perception and evaluation Kristina Olson (Second Prize) The Luck Preference: Investigations Across Culture and Development 2010 Kristin Pauker (First Prize) Not So Black and White: The Impact of Motivation on Memory for Racially Ambiguous Faces

Andrew Todd (Second Prize) Combating Contemporary Racial Biases: On the Virtues of Perspective Taking

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 2011 Nicholas Sorenson (First Prize) The Road to Empathy: Dialogic Pathways for Engaging Diversity and Improving Intergroup Relations

Rachel Farr (Second Prize) Coparenting among Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Couples: Associations with Couple Relationships and Child Outcomes 2012 Paul Piff (First Prize) On wealth and wrongdoing: How social class influences unethical behavior

David Yeager (Second Prize) Implicit Theories of Personality and Adolescent Aggression: a process model and an intervention strategy 2013 Serena Does (First Prize) At the Heart of Egalitarianism: How Morality Framing Shapes Whites’ Responses to Social Inequality

Kristin Laurin (Second Prize) Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs 2014 Felicia Webb (First Prize) The Role of Social Class Identity: Implications for African American and White College Students’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes

Eli Green (Second Prize) Does Teaching Transgender Content Reduce Anti-Transgender Prejudice? The Assessment Findings from a National Study 2015 Sarah Lyons-Padilla (First Prize) The Psychological Foundations of HomegrownRadicalization: An Immigrant Acculturation Perspective

Sander van der Linden (Second Prize) The Social-Psychological Determinants of Climate ChangeRisk Perceptions, Intentions and Behaviors: A National Study

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