APA Convention 2024 | August 8-10 | Seattle Convention Center

The following Department of Psychology faculty and students have informed the department that they will receive awards or present at the convention. Please visit the APA website for more information, including a complete convention schedule.

APA Award Recipients

Germine Awad: APA Div. 45 Charles and Shirley Thomas Award for Student Mentorship and Development

Elizabeth Cole: APA Div. 1 George Miller Award for Best Paper (for Grzanka, P. R., & Cole, E. R. [2021]. An argument for bad psychology: Disciplinary disruption, public engagement, and social transformation. American Psychologist, 76(8), 1334–1345.)

Lilia Cortina: APA Div. 35 Bonnie R. Strickland and Jessica Henderson Daniel Distinguished Award for Mentoring

Shinobu Kitayama: APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology

Speakers, Panelists, and Discussants

Germine Awad: Combating Scientific Racism in Psychological Science: Interrogating Notions of Rigor (part of symposium “First Do no Harm”: Centering Race and Race-focused Research in Educational Psychology)

Germine Awad: Conversation With Leaders From the National Racial and Ethnic Psychological Associations

Germine Awad: Are We Ready to Accept Methods That a Diverse Science Will Require?

Germine Awad: The Role of Gender in Social Wellbeing, Depression, Helpseeking, and 3Ayb (shame) in Arab Women (Discussant)

Fatmeh Baidoun: Exploring 3ayb1 (عيب) among Arab, Middle Eastern and North African (AMENA) Adults Living in the U.S. (part of symposium The Role of Gender in Social Wellbeing, Depression, Helpseeking, and 3ayb (shame) in Arab Women)

Kevin Cokley: The Impostor Phenomenon: Psychological Theory, Research, and Interventions

Elizabeth Cole: Abortion and Reproductive Justice: Addressing Reproductive Oppression with Psychological Science (Discussant)

Patricia Reuter-Lorenz: Aging as a Life’s Work: Cognitive Neuroscience of Later Adulthood & A Baltes Legacy

Rouan Salim: Exploring Ethnic Identity and Social Wellbeing of Adult Palestinian Immigrant Women in the U.S. (part of symposium The Role of Gender in Social Wellbeing, Depression, Helpseeking, and 3ayb (shame) in Arab Women)

Poster Presenters

Lindsey Gibb: Associations of Eating Disorders with Legal Substance Use in a Nationally Representative Sample

Danielle Rosenscruggs: Interrogating the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale through a Racial Lens