Each year ISCON recognizes the contributions to the study
of social cognition by junior scientists. (6 years post-Ph.D. max)
Past winners of the award are:
2007 Bertram Gawronski
2008 Brian A. Nosek & B. Keith Payne
2009 Melissa J. Ferguson & Jason P. Mitchell
2010 David M. Amodio
2011 Robert J. Rydell
2012 Wilhelm Hofmann
2013 Nick Rule
2014 Kristina Olson
2015 Adam Waytz
2016 Jonathan Freeman & Kurt Gray
2017 Ed O'Brien & Kristin Laurin
2018 Juliana Schroeder & Larisa Heiphetz
2019 Chadly Stern
2020 Diana Tamir
2021 Gordon Pennycook
2022 Steven O. Roberts
2023 Benedek Kurdi, Jackson Lu, Ashley Martin
Best Paper Award
Each year, ISCON offers an award for the Best Social Cognition Paper
2004 Schul, Y., Mayo, R. & Burnstein, E. (2004). Encoding under trust and distrust: The spontaneous activation of incongruent cognitions. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 668-679.
2005 Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2005). Positive affect as implicit motivator: On the nonconscious
operation of behavioral goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 129-142.
2006 Cesario, J., Plaks, J. E., & Higgins, E. T. (2006). Automatic social behavior as motivated
preparation to interact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 893-910.
2007 Wheeler, S. C., DeMarree, K. G., & Petty, R. E. (2007). Understanding the role of the
self in prime-to-behavior effects: The active-self account. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 234-261.
2008 Koo, M., & Fishbach, A. (2008). Dynamics of self-regulation: How (un)accomplished
goal actions affect motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94,183-195.
2009 Sherman, J. W., Kruschke, J. K., Sherman, S. J., Percy, E. J., Petrocelli, J. V., & Conrey, F. R. (2009).
Attentional processes in stereotype formation: A common model for category accentuation and illusory correlation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 305-323.
2009 Smith, E. R., & Collins, E. C. (2009). Contextualizing person perception: Distributed social cognition.
Psychological Review, 116, 343-364.
2010 Förster, J., & Dannenberg, L. (2010). GLOMO sys : A systems account of global versus local processing.
Psychological Inquiry, 21, 175-197.
2011 Loersch, C., & Payne, B. K. (2011). The situated inference model: An integrative account of the effects of primes on
perception, behavior, and motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science,
6, 234-252.
2012 Inzlicht, M., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2012). What is ego depletion? Toward a mechanistic revision of the resource model of self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 450-463.
2013 Gawronski, B., & Cesario, J. (2013). Of mice and men: What animal research can tell us about context effects on automatic responses in humans. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 187-215.
2014 Gray, K., Rand, D. G., Eyal, E., Lewis, K., Hershman, S., & Norton, M. I. (2014). The emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 lines of code: Modeling group genesis in homogeneous populations. Psychological Science, 25, 982-990.
2015 Mann, T. C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2015). Can we undo our first impressions? The role of reinterpretation in reversing implicit evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 823-849.
2016 Martin, J. M., Reimann, M., & Norton, M. I. (2016). Experience theory, or How desserts are like losses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(11), 1460-1472.
2017 Payne, B. K., Vuletich, H. A., & Lundberg, K. B. (2017). The bias of crowds: How implicit bias bridges personal and systemic prejudice. Psychological Inquiry, 28, 233–248.
2018 Siegel, J. Z., Mathys, C., Rutledge, R. B., & Crockett, M. J. (2018). Beliefs about bad people are volatile. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 750-756.
2019
Neel, R., & Lassetter, B. (2019). The stigma of perceived irrelevance: An affordance-management theory of interpersonal invisibility. Psychological Review, 126(5), 634–659.
2021
Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., & Koch, A. (2020). Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 62, pp. 115-187). Academic Press.
2022
Kardosh, R., Sklar, A. Y., Goldstein, A., Pertzov, Y., & Hassin, R. R. (2022). Minority salience and the overestimation of individuals from minority groups in perception and memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(12), e2116884119.
2023
Martin, A. E., & Mason, M. F. (2022). What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(2), 292.