2022 SIOP Distinguished Award Recipients Honored

Every year, SIOP and the SIOP Foundation present numerous awards recognizing excellence in professional and student work. For 2022, eight SIOP members have been honored with distinguished awards.

These recipients were honored during both the Conference Kickoff virtual event and the in-person Opening Plenary of the 2022 SIOP Annual Conference in Seattle. They will also be individually featured in a social media campaign spanning SIOP’s Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts beginning in May.

SIOP Distinguished Awards are given in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding contributions or distinguished early career contributions to the practice or science of industrial and organizational psychology; sustained, significant, and outstanding service to SIOP; a sustained record of excellence in the teaching of I-O psychology; or sustained, significant, and outstanding humanitarian contributions related to I-O psychology.

2022 SIOP Distinguished Award Recipients include:

• Dunnette Prize: Dr. Robert Hogan, Hogan Assessment Systems
• Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Dr. Michele J. Gelfand, University of Maryland, College Park/Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Distinguished Service Contributions: Dr. Evan Sinar, BetterUp
• Distinguished Early Career Contributions – Practice: Dr. Philip T. Walmsley, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
• Distinguished Early Career Contributions – Science: Dr. Joel Koopman, Texas A&M University
• Distinguished Early Career Contributions – Science: Dr. Kai Chi (Sam) Yam, National University of Singapore
• Distinguished Teaching Contributions: Dr. José-María Peiró, University of Valencia
• SIOP Humanitarian Award: Dr. Walter Reichman, OrgVitality

SIOP also presents awards in the categories of Achievements and Best Papers, Research Grants, and Scholarships and Fellowships.

• Achievement and Best Paper Awards
  Several SIOP awards recognize outstanding publications, projects, and applied work by its members. Funded largely by donations from leading I-O psychologists, these awards highlight excellence, innovation, and advancement in various areas germane to the I-O field.
• Research Grants
  SIOP invests in the advancement of I-O psychology by funding research initiatives. Grants are available through programs that support research in any area of interest to SIOP members and through programs that support research on key topics, such as leadership and diversity. Several grants are specifically designed to support research by graduate students.
• Scholarships and Fellowships
  SIOP awards several scholarships and a fellowship to recognize achievement by graduate students in I-O psychology and related fields and to provide these students with financial support.

A complete list of 2022 award winners is available online. SIOP Salutes will also be posted here.