2026 Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence

Apply by April 20, 2026, 11:59 PM PT

Full details live on the official award page: https://spsp.org/membership/awards/teaching-mentoring-awards/ambady-award

Eligibility

• Applicants should have made significant contributions through a career-long commitment to fostering the professional and intellectual development of students and early career researchers.
• Applicants (including self-nominees and nominated individuals) and nominators must be members of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology at the time they apply for the award.

Required Materials

• A summary or bulleted list (limit 500 words) describing the nominee’s mentoring goals, practices, diversity efforts, and impact, including a list of previous mentees if desired.
• Letters of support from up to three graduate student mentees.
• CV or Resume (If applicable, annotate CV to indicate articles/chapters where mentees co-authored papers.)

Questions? Please contact awards@spsp.org