Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Yijie Wang.

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).