2025 SIOP Achievement and Best Paper Award Recipients Honored

Each year, SIOP and the SIOP Foundation present numerous awards recognizing excellence in professional and student work.

The Achievement and Best Paper Award category recognizes outstanding achievements and publications in industrial-organizational psychology. It highlights the development of scientific knowledge, practical relevance, and rigorous research methods central to the field. The awards are designed to honor graduate scholars and practitioners who contribute to workforce improvement through data-driven insights and pedagogical advancements.

2025 SIOP Achievement and Best Paper Award Recipients include:

• Rains Wallace Dissertation Award: Jenna McChesney for her dissertation, “Evaluations of Job Applicants Who Disclose Anxiety and Depression on LinkedIn.”
• William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award: Danielle King, Elisa Fattoracci, David Hollingsworth, Elliot Stahr, and Melinda Nelson for the article “When thriving requires effortful surviving: Delineating manifestations and resource expenditure outcomes of microaggressions for Black employees.”
• M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace for Amazon’s Constructed Response Assessment Project. Research Team includes John F. Capman, Denver McNeney, Emran Mohammad Abu Anas, Mengqiao (MQ) Liu, Matthew Kitching, and Anthony S. Boyce
• Raymond A. Katzell Award in I-O Psychology: Awarded to Christiane , Erika Henderson, Juan Madera, and Michelle Penn-Marshall, for the publication “Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the U.S. Face Double Standard in Promotion and Tenure Decisions,” and their work at the Center for Equity in Faculty Advancement (CEFA)
• Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance: Loes Abrahams, Jasmine Vergauwe, and Filip De Fruyt for their article “Within-person personality variability in the work context: A blessing or a curse for job performance?”
• Wiley Award for Excellence in Survey Research goes to Charlene Zhang and Paul R. Sackett for “Planned missingness: An underused but practical approach to reducing survey and test length.”
• Jeanneret Award for Excellence in the Study of Individual or Group Assessment is presented to Nan Zhang, Mo Wang, Heng Xu, Nick Koenig, Louis Hickman, Jason Kuruzovich, Vincent Ng, Kofi Arhin, Danielle Wilson, Q. Chelsea Song, Chen Tang, Leo Alexander III, Yesuel Kim for their article “Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning.”
• Schmidt-Hunter Meta-Analysis Award is presented to Yi-Ren Wang, Michael Ford, Marcus Credé, Peter Harms, and Paul Lester for their publication “A meta-analysis on the crossover of workplace traumatic stress symptoms between partners.”
• Joel Lefkowitz Early Career Award for Humanistic I-O Psychology: Danielle M. Gardner for her body of work on topics relevant to the advancement of workplace equity

SIOP also presents awards in the categories of Distinguished and Career Awards, Research Grants, and Scholarships and Fellowships. More information on these winners and recognized SIOP members will soon be available in the SIOP Salutes digital brochure, publicized prior to the SIOP annual conference.

SIOP Award recipients will be additionally featured in a social media campaign spanning SIOP’s X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts later this spring.

A complete list of 2025 award winners is available online. The 2025 SIOP Salutes brochure will also be posted on this webpage later this spring.