Faculty Honors and Awards
The Department of Psychology is home to award-winning faculty who have been recognized by research institutions and associations around the world. Learn more below about faculty Distinguished and Chaired Professors, Presidencies, Awards, and Fellowships.
Distinguished and Chaired Professors
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
- Since 2017: Barbara Andersen
- Since 2019: Mark Pitt
- Since 2002: Roger Ratcliff
- Since 2014: Duane T. Wegener
Distinguished University Professor
- Since 1998: Richard E. Petty
- Since 2018: Barbara Andersen
- Since 2020: Roger Ratcliff
Harold E. Burt Chair
- Since 2002: Russell H. Fazio
Ohio Eminent Scholar
- Since 2010: Jennifer Crocker, Social Psychology
- Since 2005: Julian Thayer, Health Psychology
Presidencies
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research
- 2010: Julian Thayer
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- 2004 – 2008; 2011: Marc Tassé
American Psychological Association Division 38: Society for Health Psychology
- 2021: Barbara Andersen
Association for Psychological Science
- 2012: Joseph Steinmetz
Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology
- 2019: Jennifer Crocker
- 2018: Richard Petty
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
- 2001 – 2002: John Bruno
International Society for Self and Identity
- 2006 – 2009: Jennifer Crocker
Midwestern Psychological Association
- 2012: Russell Fazio
- 2007: Richard Petty
- 2019: Duane Wegener
Psychometric Society
- 1992: Michael Browne
- 2004: Robert Cudeck
Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium
- 2014 and 2008: Julian Thayer
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- 1997: Hal Arkes
- 2014: Ellen Peters
Society for Mathematical Psychology
- 2006 – 2007: Trish Van Zandt
- 2001 – 2002: Jay Myung
Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology
- 1998: Michael Browne
- 1995: Robert Cudeck
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- 2010: Jennifer Crocker
- 2009: Richard Petty
- 1998: Gifford Weary
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
- 2000 – 2001: Jennifer Crocker
Society of Behavioral Medicine, Cancer
- 2017: Barbara Andersen
Society of Professional Hypnosis Division 30
- 2003 – 2004, 2012 – 2013, 2019 – 2020: Joseph Green
South African Statistical Association
- 1978: Michael Browne
Awards
Career Scientist Award
- 2003: Luc Michael Aman
Early Career Award
- 2008: Luc Lecavalier
Minto Hero of Hope Research Medal of Honor
- 2004: Barbara Andersen
Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution
- 2019: Julie Golomb, Perception & Motor Performance
- 2006: Theodore Beauchaine, Psychopathology
- 2001: Duane Wegener, Social Psychology
- 1983: Russell Fazio, Social Psychology
Distinguished Career Contributions to Professional Hypothesis Award, Division 30
- 2014: Joseph Green
Distinguished Career Contributions to Scientific Hypothesis Award, Division 30
- 2010: Joseph Green
Distinguished Scientist Lecturer
- 2000: Sarah Boysen
- 1999: Richard Petty
Early Career Award, Division 33 (Intellectual Disabilities)
- 2008: Luc Lecavalier
Early Career Contributions to the Field of Psychological Hypnosis Award, Division 30
- 1997: Joseph Green
Edgar A. Doll Award
- 2011: Michael Aman
John Holland Award for Research Integrating Career and Personality Psychology, Division 17 (Counseling Psychology)
- 1993: Nancy Betz
Leona Tyler Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Counseling Psychology, Division 17 (Counseling Psychology)
- 2000: Nancy Betz
Mid-Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Benefit Children, Youth and Families
- 2017: Theodore Beauchaine
Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award, Division 38 (Health Psychology)
- 2003: Barbara Andersen
Robert K. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Investigators
- 2018: Julie Golomb
Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging
- 2016: Ruchika Prakash
Outstanding Education and Training Award
- 2018: Barbara Andersen
Early Career Award for Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
- 1996: Julian Thayer
Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research
- 2013: Gary Bernston
Distinguished Scientist Award
- 2012: Julian Thayer
Kuhmerker Career Award
- 2016: John Gibbs
Janet T. Spence Early Career Award for Transformational Research
- 2011: William Cunningham
Rising Star Award
- 2017: Jolynn Pek
Quantitative Methods Research Award
- 2018: Jolynn Pek
Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award for Innovative Contributions to Decision Research
- 2009: Ellen Peters
Early Career Impact Award
- 2018: Julie Golomb, Vision Sciences Society
Sage Early Career Award
- 2010: Kentaro Fujita
- 2009: William Cunningham
George Vaillant Award for Contributions in Positive Clinical Psychology
- 2019: Jennifer Cheavens
Lifetime Career Award
- Year Unknown: Jennifer Crocker
Young Investigator Award, Basic Science
- 2012: William Cunningham
- 2003: Richard Petty
- 2003: Roger Ratcliff
Troland Research Award
- 1986: Roger Ratcliff
Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow
- 2014: Julie Golomb
Independent Scientist / Development Award
- 2000 – 2005: Jennifer Crocker
- 1987 – 1992 and 1992 – 1997: Russell Fazio
MERIT Award
- 1999 – 2010: Roger Ratcliff
- 1987 – 1991: Russell Fazio
Senior Scientist Award
- 2004 – 2013: Barbara Andersen
- 1990 – 1995 and 2000 – 2005: Roger Ratcliff
- 1999 – 2003: Russell Fazio
Early Researcher Award
- 2016: Jolynn Pek
Thomas M. Ostrom Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Social Cognition
- 2016: Richard Petty
- 2006: Russell Fazio
Early Career Award
- 2019: Brandon Turner
Lifetime Career Award
- 2021: Paul de Boeck
- 2010: Michael Browne
Psychometrika Dissertation Award
- 2012: Brandon Turner
Arthur Shapiro Award
- 2019: Joseph Green
Distinguished Career Contribution to Consumer Psychology
- 1999: Richard Petty
New Investigator Award
- 1995: Jay Myung
R. Duncan Luce Best Paper Award
- 2011 – 2013: Brandon Turner
William K. Estes Early Career Award
- 2015: Brandon Turner
Cattell Early Career Research Award
- 2021: Jolynn Pek
- 1989: Robert Cudeck
Sells Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research
- 2003: Michael Browne
Early Career Award
- 2017: Ian Krajbich
Distinguished Service to the Society Award
- 2012: Richard Petty
- 2019: Jennifer Crocker
Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Career Contribution to Social Psychology
- 2015: Jennifer Crocker
- 2010: Russell Fazio
- 2001: Richard Petty
Attitudes and Social Influence Group: Mid-Career Award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution
- 2018: Duane Wegener
Attitudes and Social Influence Interest Group: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
- 2017: Richard Petty
- 2018: Russell Fazio
Distinguished Service Award
- Year Unknown: Jennifer Crocker
Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize
- 1988: Jennifer Crocker
Distinguished Mentor Award
- 2005: Charles Emery
Distinguished Senior Investigator
- 2015: Barbara Andersen
Warren Medal
- 2002: Roger Ratcliff
Distinguished Scientist Award
- 2019: Russel Fazio
- 2015: Richard Petty
Scientific Impact Award
- 2009: Richard Petty
- 2014: Jennifer Crocker
Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2009: Nancy Betz
IEEE SMC Andrew P. Sage Best Transacations Paper Award
- 2018: Richard Jagacinski
Sloan Research Fellow Award
- 2014: Julie Golomb, Neuroscience
- 2018: Zeynep Saygin, Neuroscience
Arts and Sciences Early Career Faculty Excellence Award
- 2020: Kathryn Lenz
Arts and Sciences Harlan Hatcher Distinguished Faculty Award
- 2017: Russell Fazio
- 2012: Gary Wenk
- 2004: Mark Pitt
Arts and Sciences Honors Faculty Service Award
- 2008: Richard Jagacinski
- 2001: John Bruno
Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award
- 1994: John Bruno
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award, College of Engineering
- 2018: Richard Jagacinski
Social and Behavioral Sciences Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow Award
- 2022: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
- 2020: Tracy Tylka
- 2019: Luc Lecavalier
- 2018: Theodore Beauchaine
- 2016: Ellen Peters
- 2015: Michael Vasey
- 2014: Jay Myung
- 2013: Gail McKoon
- 2010: Vladimir Sloutsky
- 2011: Charles Emery
- 2009: Gary Wenk
- 2007: Mark Pitt
- 2005: John Bruno
- 2004: James Todd
- 2001: Nancy Betz
University Distinguished Scholar Award
- 2010: Roger Ratcliff
- 2008: Russell Fazio
- 2000: Barbara Andersen
- 1995: Richard Petty
- 1984: Gifford Weary
University Distinguished Lecturer Award
- 2003: Barbara Andersen
- 1999: Gifford Weary
University Distinguished Professor Award
- 2020: Roger Ratcliff
- 2018: Barbara Andersen
- 1998: Richard Petty
University Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2021: Laura Wagner
- 2018: Bradley Okdie
- 2017: Jennifer Cheavens
- 2015: Julie Hupp
- 2011: Melissa Jungers
- 2009: Randy Nelson
- 2008: Tracy Tylka
- 2004: Joseph Green
- 1996: Sarah Boysen
- 1994: John Bruno
Fellowships
- 2022: Ruchika Prakash
- 1998: Charles Emery
- 1987: Barbara Andersen
- Year Unknown: Julian Thayer
- 2019: Jennifer Crocker
- 2017: Russell Fazio
- 2015: Roger Ratcliff
- 2010: Richard Petty
- 1993: Gifford Weary
- 1991: Richard Petty
- 2018: Russell Fazio
- 2008: Gary Wenk
- 2004: Barbara Andersen
- 2003: Sarah Boysen
- 1990: Richard Petty
- Year Unknown: Jennifer Crocker
- 1995: Charles Emery
- Year Unknown: Marc Tassé
- 2021: Melissa Buelow
- 2021: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
- 2019: Jolynn Pek
- 2008: Duane Wegener
- 2002: Joseph Green
- 2001: Charles Emery
- 1998: Raymond Montemayor
- 1993: Robert Cudeck
- 1988: Barbara Andersen
- 1988: Jennifer Crocker
- 1988: Richard Jagacinski
- 1986: Gifford Weary
- 1984: Richard Petty
- Year Unkown: Robert Arkin
- Year Unknown: Nancy Betz
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- Year Unknown: Marc Tassé
- 2020: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
- 2019: Kentaro Fujita
- 2016: Stephen Petrill
- 2012: Ellen Peters
- 2010: John Opfer
- 2009: Susan Johnson
- 2009: Michael Vasey
- 2006: Gary Berntson
- 2005: Duane Wegener
- 1997: Roger Ratcliff
- 1990: Jennifer Crocker
- 1989: Gifford Weary
- 1988: Richard Jagacinski
- 1988: Richard Petty
- Year Unknown: Robert Arkin
- Year Unknown: Nancy Betz
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- Year Unknown: Jay Myung
- Year Unknown: Vladimir Sloutsky
- Year Unknown: Jennifer Crocker
- 2011: Charles Emery
- 1995: John Bruno
- 2015: Richard Jagacinski
- 2020: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
- 2019: Amy Brunell
- 2019: Melissa Buelow
- 2018: Kentaro Fujita
- 2010: Gary Berntson
- 2009: Gifford Weary
- 2009: Duane Wegener
- Year Unknown: Robert Arkin
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- Year Unknown: Richard Petty
- Year Unknown: Jay Myung
- Year Unknown: Richard Petty
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- 2021: Patrick Carroll
- 2019: Amy Brunell
- 2017: Kentaro Fujita
- 2008: Duane Wegener
- 1988: Jennifer Crocker
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- Year Unknown: Richard Petty
- 2000: Gail McKoon
- 1990: Jennifer Crocker
- 2011: Charles Emery
- 1989: Barbara Andersen
- Year Unknown: Julian Thayer
- 2002: Joseph Green
- 1995: Roger Ratcliff
- 2019: Amy Brunell
- 2014: Ellen Peters
- 2011: Kentaro Fujita
- 2009: Jennifer Crocker
- 2009: Gifford Weary
- 2009: Duane Wegener
- Year Unknown: Robert Arkin
- Year Unknown: William Cunningham
- Year Unknown: Russell Fazio
- Year Unknown: Richard Petty
- 1976: Michael Browne