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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. The 2025 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2024 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2024 Committee on Scientific Awards. For outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of perception and its interface with cognition and motor performance, Chaz Firestone is a 2025 award winner. Firestone's creative, elegant, and brilliant studies have time and again enriched our understanding of countless aspects of perceptual representation, including the perception of balance, structure, absences, complexity, possibility, perspectival shape, and abstract relations-revealing just how rich perceptual processing is. His masterful theoretical work, such as his landmark examination of putative cognitive influences on perception, raises the bar for experimental and conceptual rigor in the field. His boundless energy and commitment as a researcher, mentor, and teacher are an inspiration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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. The 2025 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2024 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2024 Committee on Scientific Awards. For her integrative approach, bridging social psychology, relationship science, health psychology, and psychophysiology to understand how humans socially connect, Amie Michelle Gordon is a 2025 award winner. Gordon has blazed new paths by studying unique contexts like co-sleeping to better understand how interactive processes in romantic relationships influence self and others' behavior, cognition, and physiology. Her research has taken seriously the idea that humans' unique ability to engage in prosocial cognitions and behavior serves as the sticky social glue to create and sustain relationships. She has done this research with the highest standards, most rigorous methods, and innovative approaches, providing a notable shift in how relationship science informs and impacts psychological science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

This award honors a psychologist who has made a distinguished empirical and/or theoretical contribution to research in public policy, either through a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of work. In recognition of his exceptional leadership and scholarly contributions, APA is honored to present the 2025 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy to David L. Blustein. Blustein is a highly distinguished psychologist whose scholarship has reshaped vocational psychology and significantly influenced public policy. Through his Psychology of Working Theory, Blustein helped redefine how psychologists understand the role of work in people's lives, especially for those who are marginalized and economically disenfranchised. Blustein's scholarship has led the field in addressing structural inequities in access to decent work, providing an evidence-based foundation for more inclusive policies in employment and education. With over 200 publications in leading journals, his influence spans disciplines and borders, shaping national and international discourse on work, education, and psychological health. In addition, through decades of mentorship, Blustein has cultivated a generation of scholars and practitioners committed to social justice. His legacy continues through the transformative research, theory, and advocacy he has inspired. Blustein's lasting impact on public policy and psychological science exemplifies the APA's mission to apply psychological research to benefit society and improve lives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

In an overview of my recent decades of work, I recount here the journey that took my colleagues and me from the experimental lab into the "real world" and back again. Initially, we sought to address the motivational underpinnings of terrorism and radicalization and the conditions that foster extremism. Quickly, we discovered, however, that the same psychological mechanisms are also responsible for humanity, enlightenment, and progress. Foremost among those are our universal strivings for significance and mattering, and our capacity for motivational imbalance wherein one concern predominates over others, legitimizing any behavior seen to serve it. Recognizing the deep psychological roots our better angels share with our inner demons could be of help in transforming the latter into the former. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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 2025 were applied research, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, individual differences, perception and motor performance, and social psychology. The 2025 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2024 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2024 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recognize persons who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. Two awards are given: one to a senior psychologist and a second to a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest in the early stages of their career. The 2025 recipients of the APA Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest were selected by the 2024 Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The International Humanitarian Award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian services and activism by psychologists, including professional and volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations. Award recipients are psychologists who, by their extraordinary service at a difficult time, improve the lives and contribute to the well-being of people in a large or small geographic area anywhere in the world. The 2025 recipient of the APA International Humanitarian Award was selected by the Board of Directors as recommended by the 2024 Committee for Global Psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The psychosocial expert research supporting the complaints filed by the Association of Victims of El Mozote in El Salvador and the Victims of the Residents of La Oroya in Peru before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights are the result of participants' relentless fight against impunity. Drawing on this work, the author developed a methodology to visibilize the victims and facilitate audiences who heard their accounts of the events and the harm they suffered. This methodology enables those who accompany survivors to understand their expectations for reparation and facilitates a process through which a common pattern of harm caused by both the El Mozote massacre and the contamination of La Oroya can be observed. This analysis of results from both expert reports demonstrates similarities and differences in the psychosocial harms experienced by the victims and the ensuing proposed reparations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

This award is given to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology. To be eligible, this research should have led to innovative applications in an area of psychological practice, including but not limited to assessment, consultation, instruction, or intervention (either direct or indirect). Research involving the original development of procedures, methodologies, or technical skills that significantly improve the application of psychological knowledge and provide direct and immediate solutions to practical problem areas will be considered, as will research that has informed psychologists on how better to observe, define, predict, or control behavior. Original integration of existing theories or knowledge is also eligible for consideration. In previous years, this award was called the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge. The name was changed in 2003 to better describe this award. The 2025 recipients of the APA Distinguished Professional Contributions Awards were selected by the 2024 Board of Professional Affairs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2025 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2024 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2024 Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).