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The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2023 Committee on Scientific Awards. For her outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to prosocial development, empathy, and self-regulation from a multimethod and multidisciplinary approach, Nancy Eisenberg is a 2024 award winner. She has single-handedly launched the field of emotion regulation, defined constructs, and established reliable and valid methodologies. Her expansive longitudinal, cross-sectional, and experimental studies demonstrated the robustness of the phenomena that she investigated. Examples of the brilliant impact of her research are evidenced across multiple fields of psychology, including the social neuroscience of empathy, motivation that underlies effortful control, clinical implications of individual differences, and the developmental origins of emotions and their regulation in the context of peer and adult- child interactions and forms of communication. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 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. Sayed Jafar Ahmadi and Zeinab Musavi cofounded the Behrawan Research and Psychology Services Organization (BRPSO) in 2015 to provide psychological and crisis intervention mental health services to vulnerable communities in Afghanistan. The BRPSO supported children and families during and after terrorist attacks, in the aftermath of explosions and earthquakes, and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing mental health interventions, Ahmadi and Musavi have developed opportunities for Afghan girls to pursue higher education, and both have maintained a consistent commitment to psychological research, authoring several publications on the efficacy of psychological interventions among Afghan communities. In 2021, the threat posed by the Taliban's takeover forced Ahmadi and Musavi to emigrate. During that time, they nonetheless maintained support for communities in Afghanistan by providing interventions from afar while also continuing to advance psychological knowledge through education and research. Together, they embody the humanitarian ideals of helping others in need, supporting vulnerable communities, and contributing to the field of psychology with valuable knowledge and research. The Committee on Global Psychology is honored to present the 2024 International Humanitarian Award to Sayed Jafar Ahmadi and Zeinab Musavi. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. Sarah C. Leighton is a joint winner of the 2024 awawrd, in recognition of her outstanding practice and application of psychology through her exemplary work with individuals with disabilities and service dogs. Her career spans both academic and practitioner settings, providing her with invaluable insights into the complexities of the complementary intervention of service dog partnership for people with disabilities. With a decade of experience as a leader at the world's largest service dog organization, Ms. Leighton is a knowledgeable expert in her field, recognized for her innovative thinking and strong work ethic. Thanks to her extensive hands-on experience, Ms. Leighton has helped spearhead collaborative partnerships with service dog providers and study advisory panels composed of community populations. Her work on this topic with an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Arizona has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary journals, presented at national and international conferences, and directly contributed to new and revised federal and state legislation. Ms. Leighton is active in her local community, bridging research and practice as a volunteer for the service dog puppy-raising program at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. She is passionate about refining the service dog intervention to be as effective as possible, deeply committed to dismantling societal barriers to access and belonging, and dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 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. Gerald G. Carter's innovative research on the food-sharing behavior of common vampire bats has advanced our understanding of cooperative behavior in animals. By conducting carefully designed experiments, he discovered how individuals identify food-sharing partners and how acceptance into an exchange network is a gradual process that can take months. Using proximity sensors and network analyses, he documented that social relationships formed among individuals in captivity persist even after those animals are released into the wild. His findings provide insights into the benefits associated with being part of a social group and have broad implications for understanding the social behavior of many other animals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Parental depression is a well-established risk factor for depression in offspring. This intergenerational transmission involves a diverse array of mechanisms, both familial and environmental, working at different levels to increase depression in offspring. To identify modifiable mechanisms for depression among this heterogeneity, recent work has turned to neurobiological measures as more proximal indicators of risk. Indeed, there is emerging evidence that one point of convergence for multiple proposed mechanisms of intergenerational transmission may be the effect they have on the developing brain. In this narrative review, we discuss research that has examined associations between familial and environmental influences and offspring brain function, focusing specifically on direct neural measures of cognitive control, motivation, and affective processing. We first survey evidence indicating that genes, gestational stress, parenting, and stress exposure are associated with alterations in these neural measures from infancy to young adulthood. We then present a preliminary conceptual model outlining the roles of altered neural indices of cognitive control, motivation, and affective processing in pathways from parental depression to offspring depression and discuss future research avenues addressing limitations of the existing research. Finally, we conclude by discussing the potential of this research to inform the development of targeted preventive interventions aimed at disrupting the intergenerational transmission of depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 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. The 2024 award winner is Pim Cuijpers. When we try to determine how to serve our clients, the key question is 'What works?' Pim Cuijpers has done more to answer this for mental health disorders, particularly depression, than any other researcher in the world. He has transformed the use of meta-analysis for examining treatment outcomes and led the movement to systematically organize, rigorously evaluate, and interpret the vast research evaluating interventions for mental health disorders. The importance of his work is reflected in his over 950 publications and his recognition as the top author and expert in the world in psychiatry/psychology, psychotherapy, and depression. His work guides clinicians and policymakers throughout the world on how to best treat people dealing with mental health conditions. Dr. Cuijpers and his team have now created a database including all relevant randomized control trials in the treatment of depression and other areas that allows anyone to access and conduct meta-analyses instantly through a simple, user-friendly interface. This is truly a paradigm-shifting development that changes how we understand treatment and how quickly we can improve care using this growing body of research. These substantial contributions, as well as Dr. Cuijpers's mentorship, commitment to public service, and willingness to elevate others, demonstrate that none is more worthy of this honor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

The standard model of theory of mind posits that we attribute mental states to other people to explain their behavior. However, what of cases in which we think the other person is being scripted, acting automatically with no goals or beliefs to recover? While a great deal of past work has distinguished between automatic and reflective behaviors in one's own decision making, here we argue that reasoning about automatic behavior in other people is an important and largely unexplored area in research into theory of mind. We report results from two studies (N = 4,528 total) that examine the detection of automatic behavior in others. In Study 1, we conducted a large-scale survey characterizing the ubiquity of rote interactions in people's daily lives. In Study 2, we showed participants short video clips from a variety of domains and found that people quickly and reliably attribute automaticity to others and that automaticity judgments are distinct from other related behavioral attributions. On the basis of our findings, we suggest that reasoning about scripted behavior in others is an important, frequent, intuitive inference and propose extensions to the current research in intuitive psychology to study it further. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Research on misinformation has exploded over the past decade in psychology and other disciplines. Much research has been conducted about which variables are associated with the initial acceptance of misinformation (i.e., false statements such as "Venice is the capital of Italy") and which variables are associated with its correction ("No. Rome is the capital of Italy"). A largely independent literature exists about which variables are associated with the initial acceptance of attitudinal claims (i.e., opinion statements such as "Rome is a beautiful city") and their correction (e.g., "No, Rome is not a beautiful city"). This article addresses whether the variables impacting the acceptance of factual claims (often expressed as truth judgments) and opinion claims (often expressed as evaluative judgments) are the same. Concluding that these assessments are mostly impacted similarly by the same variables (e.g., source credibility, claim repetition), it is argued that these two seemingly separate literatures should be integrated into one science of persuasion, at least for studies aimed at making general contributions. Finally, findings from the attitudes literature that potentially can inform the misinformation literature and vice versa are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 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 insightful and cutting-edge research on the growth and development of racially and ethnically minoritized youth, Yijie Wang is a 2024 award winner. Wang's innovative scholarship places particular attention on the sociocultural assets that youth possess across school, peer, and family contexts that serve promotive and protective roles against discrimination and other cultural stressors, combating entrenched deficit models. Her multimethodological approaches represent the forefront of statistical analyses and integration of complex multilevel, multimodal data sources. She has pioneered research on the intersection of peer and familial ethnic and racial socialization, unpacking how they independently and conjointly matter for ethnic-racial identity development, academic performance, and socioemotional well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. A qualified candidate must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved population in an applied setting or have developed an innovative method for delivering health services to an underserved population. When two graduate students are equally qualified, the award may be shared. The 2024 recipients of the APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology were selected by the 2023 Board of Professional Affairs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).