Outstanding Research Award

Laura Wallace is a PhD candidate in psychology at Ohio State University. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on the psychology of change. Within this broad theme, she focuses on three major questions: When do people seek growth for themselves and their societies? How and when do people’s attitudes change?  When do attitudes lead to action? You can learn more about her here: http://laura-e-wallace.com/

David March is a PhD student in social psychology at the University of Tennessee. His research seeks to understand the implicit social cognitive mechanisms guiding how people process information. David has developed a theoretical model, the Dual Implicit Process Model, that explicates a speed and strength difference between the implicit processing of threats to immediate bodily harm versus all other classes of stimuli.

Jae Yun Kim is a PhD candidate in the Management and Organizations program at Duke University. His research primarily examines how popular ideas about self-help and self-improvement (e.g., women's empowerment messages, advice to pursue one's passion, the belief in the power of the mind and thinking) shape perceptions of fairness, inequality, and legitimacy.

Paige Lloyd was a PhD candidate at Miami University at the time of the award and is now an assistant professor at the University of Denver. She investigates the antecedents and consequences of person perception, with an emphasis on implications for social inequality.

David Newman is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology at the University of Southern California. His research focuses primarily on understanding well-being in ecologically valid contexts. To examine within-person variations in well-being in daily life, he relies on daily diary and experience sampling techniques. The current paper concerns the relationship between nostalgia and well-being in daily life.