Awards

Thomas M. Ostrom Award

In cooperation with PMIG, ISCON honors career contributions to the study of social cognition.

Beginning in 1998, PMIG initiated an annual award to honor Tom Ostrom's memory. The Thomas M. Ostrom Award recognizes oustanding lifetime contributions to theory and research in the field of social cognition. The criteria for "contributions" are modeled after those so clearly exemplified in Tom's career. Therefore the Thomas M. Ostrom Award recognizes a person or persons whose career manifests not only a record of significant and influential publications but also contributions to social cognition through training students, editing important volumes and journals, and facilitating collegial interaction through meetings and conferences. The recipient(s) receives a plaque commemorating this recognition and is invited to give an award address at the PMIG meeting.

Past winners of the award are:

2025 - Monica Biernat

2024 - Jack Dovidio & Hazel Markus
2023 - Galen Bodenhausen & Diane Mackie

2022 - Jennifer Crocker & Peter Gollwitzer

2021 - Claude Steele & Alice Eagly

2020 - Anne Maass & Gün Semin

2019 - Mahzarin Banaji

2018 - Tim Wilson

2017 - Shelly Chaiken

2016 - Rich Petty

2015 - Yaacov Trope

2014 - Patricia Devine

2013 - Jim Uleman

2012 - Reid Hastie

2011 - John A. Bargh

2010 - Charles M. Judd & Bernadette Park

2009 - Donal E. Carlston

2008 - Myron Rothbart

2007 - Marilynn B. Brewer

2006 - Russell H. Fazio

2005 - Norbert Schwarz & Fritz Strack

2004 - Eliot R. Smith

2003 - Susan T. Fiske & Shelley E. Taylor

2002 - Steven J. Sherman

2001 - Anthony G. Greenwald

2000 - David L. Hamilton

1999 - E. Tory Higgins
1998 - Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

Early Career Award

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:

2025 - This could be you!

2024 - David Melkinoff

2023 - Benedek Kurdi, Jackson Lu, Ashley Martin

2022 - Steven O. Roberts

2021 - Gordon Pennycook

2020 - Diana Tamir

2019 - Chadly Stern

2018 - Juliana Schroeder & Larisa Heiphetz

2017 - Ed O'Brien & Kristin Laurin

2016 - Jonathan Freeman & Kurt Gray

2015 - Adam Waytz

2014 - Kristina Olson

2013 - Nick Rule

2012 - Wilhelm Hofmann

2011 - Robert J. Rydell

2010 - David M. Amodio

2009 - Melissa J. Ferguson & Jason P. Mitchell

2008 - Brian A. Nosek & B. Keith Payne
2007 - Bertram Gawronski

Best Paper Award

Each year, ISCON offers an award for the Best Social Cognition Paper

2025 - This could be you!

2024
Hester, N., & Hehman, E. (2023). Dress is a fundamental component of person perception. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27, 414-433.

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), 292-315.

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.

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.

2019
Neel, R., & Lassetter, B. (2019). The stigma of perceived irrelevance: An affordance-management theory of interpersonal invisibility. Psychological Review, 126(5), 634–659.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2010
Förster, J., & Dannenberg, L. (2010). GLOMO sys : A systems account of global versus local processing. Psychological Inquiry, 21, 175-197.

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.
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Smith, E. R., & Collins, E. C. (2009). Contextualizing person perception: Distributed social cognition. Psychological Review, 116, 343-364.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.