SPSSI - Kurt Lewin Award - Sorted by Year

The Kurt Lewin Award

Named for the late Kurt Lewin, a pioneer in the science of group dynamics & a founder of the SPSSI, this award is presented annually for "outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action."

The award recipient presents a distinguished address each year as part of SPSSI's program at the Annual APA Convention or at SPSSI's biennial conventions.

This is a list of past award winners and the titles of their spoken addresses.

Past winners sorted by year / Sorted by Name

Year	Name	Title of Address
2010	Mark Zanna	While Waiting for Nature to Take Her Course: There’s Nothing So Practical as a Good…Design
2009	Beatrice Wright
2008	Mark Snyder	In the Footsteps of Kurt Lewin: Practical Theorizing, Action Research, and the Psychology of Social Action
2007	Kay Deaux	To Be an American: Immigration, Hyphenation, and Incorporation
2006	Greg Herek	Confronting Sexual Stigma and Prejudice: Theory and Practice.
2005	Faye J. Crosby	The Uses of a Good Theory
2004	Jack Dovidio and Sam Gaertner	Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Racism: From Aversive Racism to the Common Ingroup Identity Model
2003	Daphne Bugental	Thriving in the Face of Adversity
2002	Claude Steele	Practical Theorizing: The Role of Social Context and the Case of Social Identity Threat
2001	James Jones	TRIOS: A Psychological Theory of the African Legacy in American Culture
2000	Normal Miller	Personalization and Promise of Contact Theory
1999	Jacquelynne Eccles	Activities, Identity, and Adolescent Development: The Social and Educational Policy Implications of Extracurricualr Involvement
1998	Bertram H. Raven	Interpersonal Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control
1997	Chris Argyris	Field Theory as a Basis for Scholarly Research-Consulting
1996	Marilynn B. Brewer	The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations: Can Research Infrom Practice?
1995	Edward F. Zigler	The Child Care Crisis: Implications for the Growth and Development of the Nation’s Children
1994	Jyuji Misumi	The Development in Japan on the Performance-Maintenance (PM) Theory of Leadership
1993	Ethel Tobach	Personal is Political is Personal is Political
1992	John R.P. French, Jr	A Lewinian's Lewinia
1991	Eleanor E. Maccoby	Trends in the Study of Socialization: Is there a Lewinian heritage?
1990	Harold H. Kelley	Lewin, Situations, and Interdependence
1989	Robert Sommer	Local Research
1988	Robert L. Kahn	Nations as Organizations: Organizational Theory and International Relations
1987	Thomas F. Pettigrew	Influencing Policy with Social Psychology
1986	N. Brewster Smith	War, Peace and Psychology: A Semi- centennial Perspective
1985	Irving Janis	Problems of International Crisis Managements in the Nuclear War
1984	Milton Rokeach	Inducing Change and Stability in Belief Systems and Personality Structures
1983	Bluma Zeigarnik	Kurt Lewin and the Soviet Psychology
1982	Joseph McVicker Hunt	The Significance of Twig Bending or Plasticity in Early Psychological Development
1981	Tamara Dembo	Some Problems in Rehabilitation as Seen by a Lewinian
1980	Marie Jahoda	To publish or Not to Publish
1979	Orville G. Brim, Jr.	On the Properties of Life Events
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