2026 SPSP Fellows

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

Full details live on the official award page: https://spsp.org/membership/fellows

Eligibility

• Be a member of SPSP.
• Have received your PhD more than 10 years before the application submission date (eligibility is determined by counting 10 full years from the official PhD conferral date to the date the application is submitted).
• Have made an extraordinary and distinctive contribution to the science of Personality and Social Psychology. 

Required Materials

• Indicate which category best reflects the emphasis of the applicant’s position (research, teaching or applied).
• Brief description of the relevant aspects of the context in which the nominee works (e.g., workload distribution, type of research environment, institutional infrastructure, etc).  
• List the nominee's accomplishments related to scientific contributions (limit to 350 words). The committee will consider a candidate’s publication record (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, and edited volumes) and the scholarly impact of the candidate’s work on the field (e.g., citation counts, research awards, transformative or highly generative works, promoting best practices in research). Impact of research can also be interpreted more broadly to consider the application of research to real world contexts or to inform public policy. For Applied Emphasis review, working in government, non-profits, or industry, other evidence of research (even if not externally published) having scientific impact outside their organization will be considered. 
• List the nominee's accomplishments related to service to the field and/or community outreach (limit to 350 words). The committee will consider service contributions to professional organizations, scientific conferences, grant panels, journal editorial boards, task-forces, outreach activities or knowledge translation to stakeholder groups, professional audiences, or thegeneral public, scientific blogs, contributions to academic centers or consortia, etc. 
• List the nominee's accomplishments related to teaching and mentoring, if applicable to the nominee’s position (limit to 350 words). The committee will consider evidence of excellence in teaching, pedagogy, and/or mentoring at either the undergraduate or graduate level. This can include teaching awards, evidence of attracting students from underrepresented groups to the field, extraordinary performance in student supervision, mentoring, leadership or scholarship in teaching of social and personality psychology. 
• Nominee's current vita in electronic format. 

Questions? Please contact awards@spsp.org.