Dr. Dorsa Amir selected as a recipient for the 2026 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award!

Dr. Dorsa Amir has been selected as one of six recipients for the 2026 Association for Psychological Science's Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions! The Spence Award, named after APS' first president, is given to innovative scholars who reflect the best of cutting-edge research early in their career, and who embody the future directions of psychological science.

Dr. Amir has been recognized for her efforts in reintegrating the study of culture into cognitive science, and will be honored this May in Barcelona, Spain at the 2026 APS Annual Convention. Congratulations to Dr. Amir and the other recipients on this amazing achievement!

From left to right: Dr. Dorsa Amir (Duke), Dr. William Brady (Northwestern), Dr. Emily Finn (Dartmouth), Dr. Andrew Grotzinger (University of Colorado-Boulder), Dr. Yuan Chang Leong (University of Chicago), and Dr. Daniel Yon (Birbeck, University of London)