Kristopher J. Preacher: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology

The 2013 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2012 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2012 Committee on Scientific Awards. The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 2013 were behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. One of the 2013 recipients of this award is Kristopher J. Preacher (individual differences), who received the award for advancing the development and effective application of quantitative methods for the analysis of data in psychological research. Preacher's award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography are presented here. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]