Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: David S. Yeager.

Abstract

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 purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 2020 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/ human learning; and psychopathology. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The 2020 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2019 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2019 Committee on Scientific Awards. For outstanding contributions to understanding adolescent development and enhancing adolescents' well-being. Based on analyses of adolescents' motivations, environments, and behaviors, David S. Yeager has designed and demonstrated the effectiveness of brief interventions for changing trajectories of aggression, depression, stress, and achievement, often on a large scale. His work, which draws from multiple areas of psychology, demonstrates deep theoretical, methodological, and statistical sophistication. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).