Gail S. Goodman: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy.

This document presents the citation awarded to Gail S. Goodman, recipient of the 2005 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy. Goodman was also the recipient of the 2005 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research (see record 2005-14550-033). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Martin E. P. Seligman: 2006 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citation for Martin E. P. Seligman, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions "for a career spent charging creatively ahead of his field and then pulling his colleagues along." A brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as the award address, Positive Psychotherapy (see record 2006-21079-029), accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Duane T. Wegener.

Presents a citation for Duane T. Wegener, who received the 2001 Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, "for innovative research on biases and bias-correction processes in information processing and social judgment." Accompanying the citation are a biography and selected bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mark D. Cunningham: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy.

Presents a citation for Mark D. Cunningham, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy "for his highly distinguished contributions to research on death-sentenced inmates, capital sentencing determinations, and law." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Cunningham's award address, entitled Dangerousness and Death: A Nexus in Search of Science and Reason (see record 2006-21079-020). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Janet E. Helms: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology.

Presents a citation for Janet E. Helms, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology "for her remarkable contribution to a conceptual and reiterative empirical base that has transformed the study of racism in our time." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Helms' award address, entitled Fairness Is Not Validity or Cultural Bias in Racial-Group Assessment: A Quantitative Perspective (see record 2006-21079-024). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Michael C. Roberts: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology.

Presents a citation for Michael C. Roberts, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology "for his dedication to the education, training, and mentoring of psychologists from undergraduate study through professional career." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Roberts' award address, entitled Essential Tension: Specialization With Broad and General Training in Psychology (see record 2006-21079-027). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Michael Davis: 2006 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citation for Michael Davis, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions "for his major discoveries about the brain circuits underlying basic aspects of behavioral plasticity and learning." A brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Davis' award address, entitled Neural Systems Involved in Fear and Anxiety Measured With Fear-Potentiated Startle (see record 2006-21079-027), accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Jeffrey J. Magnavita: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector.

Presents the citation for Jeffrey J. Magnavita, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector "for his passionate devotion to the advancement of the practice and science of psychotherapy." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Magnavita's award address, entitled In Search of the Unifying Principles of Psychotherapy: Conceptual, Empirical, and Clinical Convergence (see record 2006-21079-037). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

McCay Vernon: Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.

Presents a citation for McCay Vernon, who received the Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest "for fifty-five years of distinguished contributions toward improving the lives of both deaf and deaf-blind individuals." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Vernon's award address, The APA and Deafness (see record 2006-21079-030). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Citation analysis and literature trends.

Comments on an article by T. R. Elliott and E. K. Byrd (see record 1987-23075-001), in which the authors conducted a citation analysis of articles in Rehabilitation Psychology, Volumes 27-29. They claimed to identify influential authors and publications useful for training and research in rehabilitation psychology. Their method of citation analysis, however, appears to have distorted their results. Crisp discusses the problems with their methodology, and makes suggestions for using a different citation method, using more than three volumes of the journal, and including other journals in the analysis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology: Wendell R. Garner.

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Awards recognize distinguished and enduring records of accomplishments in 4 areas of psychology. The 1999 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology is Wendell R. Garner. Garner is known for his work in psychophysics, discrimination, perception, and information processing. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Garner's work are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gail S. Goodman: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.

This document presents the citation awarded to Gail S. Goodman, recipient of the 2005 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of Goodman accompany the citation. Goodman was also the recipient of the 2005 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy (see record 2005-14550-022). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Michael Cole: Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.

Presents the citation for Michael Cole, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology "for his significant and influential contributions to understanding the cultural and historical construction of human life and the implications of collective social practices for human development." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Cole's award address, entitled Internationalism in Psychology: We Need It Now More Than Ever (see record 2006-21079-044). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Journal Citations.

Comments on the article by J. R. Haynes (August, 1983) regarding core psychology journals. Haynes originally argues that two APA journals, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory failed to be included in the citation impact list because of extremely low citation impact for the Journal Citation Report. However, the Journal Citation Report for 1979-1981 is an unreliable source about Journal of Experimental Psychology journals for a number of reasons, including the citation of nonarticles and the conflation of citations for different journals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On the citation analysis of psychology journals.

Comments that M. J. White and K. G. White (see record 1978-01848-001) neglected to cite E. Garfield's (1975) citation study of psychology and behavior journals, a very important reference relevant to their work on the citation analysis of psychology journals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards: 1969: Citation for Stanley Schachter.

Gives a citation to Stanley Schachter "For consistent, coherent, and creative work that has materially advanced our understanding of behavior in social contexts. He has chosen to explore new areas and new problems that promised to be important and applied exceptional experimental ingenuity in making his explorations successful. Bringing to bear on his problems a fine sense of the necessary relation between theory and data, his studies always produced meaningful knowledge. By exploring his ideas in natural setting:; as well as in the laboratory, he kept richness and precision together in his work. The measure of a man's contribution to science is what we have learned as a result of his work. From the work of Stanley Schachter we have gained new knowledge of the social psychological effects of being deviant in a group; of the circumstances under which people seek out others and the basic: nature of group support; of how groups provide the context within which emotions are defined; and even the effects of the social context on psychophysiological effects. He has contributed broadly and deeply." The citation is followed by a biography of Schachter and a list of his scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.

The Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award is sponsored jointly by Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, and the APA. The award is presented annually to the psychology graduate student who submits the best research paper that was published or presented at a national, regional, or state psychological association convention during the past calendar year. This document lists the winners of the award from 1979 to 2001, and provides a citation, biography, and selected bibliography for the 2001 recipient, Su Yeong Kim. Kim's paper is noted as "an outstanding research paper illuminating the family processes associated with adolescent mental health in an understudied minority population." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Thomas J. Fagan: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector.

Presents the citation for Thomas J. Fagan, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector "for his service as a leader in correctional psychology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Error in citation analysis.

Questions the accuracy of raw citation data sorted only on the basis of names of investigators, used by N. S. Endler et al (see record 1979-26949-001), as a measure of productivity and scholarly impact in psychology. Until problems of inaccuracy are solved, the question of whether citations measure anything substantive for departments or individuals seems premature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Stephen M. Weiss: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.

Presents the citation for Stephen M. Weiss, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research "for his work as an internationally recognized leader in the fields of health psychology and behavioral medicine." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)