Mark Snyder Wins 2008 Lewin Award
The Department of Psychology is very pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Snyder has won the 2008 Kurt Lewin Award for lifetime contributions to the study of important social issues. This award is being presented by Society for the Study of Psychological and Social Issues (SPSSI). Named for Kurt Lewin, who pioneered the tradition of research that simultaneously advances the state of scientific knowledge and also directly addresses current social issues and concerns of society, the Lewin Award is the highest award presented by SPSSI.
As the award committee wrote, "Professor Mark Snyder represents the best of the Lewinian tradition in terms of both his theoretical and applied contributions to his discipline. A brilliant and prolific scholar, like Lewin, Professor Snyder recognizes that social behavior is the result of the complex interplay between the person and the environment. Specifically, his research brings together personality's concern with the psychology of the individual and social psychology's focus on the influence of the situation in coordinated programs of basic and applied research, conducted in laboratory and field settings, on the motivational foundations of individual and social behavior."
This is one of several lifetime awards that Dr. Snyder has recently received. In addition to the Lewin Award, Dr. Snyder has also received the Campbell Award and the Allport Award, each of which recognizes his lifetime research accomplishments at the intersection of personality and social psychology.
We congratulate Dr. Snyder for these major awards and achievements.