Early Career Award
About the Award
The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) annually confers an Early Career Award to a scientist who has made an outstanding empirical and/or theoretical contribution to motivation science. The winner will be recognized at the society’s annual meeting, on the society’s website, as well as in the society’s empirical journals Motivation and Emotion and Motivation Science. The winner will be awarded a travel incentive and conference fee waiver for the next Annual Meeting to encourage the winner to attend the conference. Attendance at the conference is no longer a requirement to receive the award.
The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) annually confers an Early Career Award to a scientist who has made an outstanding empirical and/or theoretical contribution to motivation science. The winner will be recognized at the society’s annual meeting, on the society’s website, as well as in the society’s empirical journals Motivation and Emotion and Motivation Science. The winner will be awarded a travel incentive and conference fee waiver for the next Annual Meeting to encourage the winner to attend the conference. Attendance at the conference is no longer a requirement to receive the award.
Eligibility Criteria
Every nomination must fulfill the following requirements:
• Nominations must be made by one individual (group nominations will not be considered). Individuals may self-nominate or be nominated by another person.
• The period of eligibility is 12 years following the completion of doctoral training. Therefore, a nominee must have received his or her doctorate on or after April 1, 2012. Extensions will be considered for nominees who have taken time away from research for reasons such as medical, disability, or family care.
Submission Requirement• The period of eligibility is 12 years following the completion of doctoral training. Therefore, a nominee must have received his or her doctorate on or after April 1, 2012. Extensions will be considered for nominees who have taken time away from research for reasons such as medical, disability, or family care.
Each nomination must include:
- A bullet-pointed list of accomplishments by the nominee. Each bullet point should be no more than two sentences in length, with a maximum of five bullet points;
- The nominee’s current CV;
- A list of up to four of the nominee’s most significant publications;
- Up to two letters of recommendation (non-mandatory), at least one of which is from a current SSM member (letters should not exceed two pages).
Please send nominations to the Chair of the SSM Early Career Award Committee (Philip Gable, pagable@gmail.com), via an email containing all information above in one single PDF document. The letter(s) of recommendation may be submitted separately.