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Undergraduate Student Poster Award

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Award Info

About the Award

This year's recipients

Gloria LaiGloria Lai, Singapore Management University

Poster: Who’s a good boy? A multilevel meta-analysis on human-animal interaction and human prosociality

Grace WangGrace Wang, University of Toronto

Poster: The impact of emotion regulation on personal, relational, and motivational outcomes

Runners-Up

Nadyanna M. Majeed, Singapore Management University - Always look on the bright side of life? Optimism as a resilience factor against emotional reactivity to daily stress

Natalie Beylin, University of California, Santa Barbara - Self-Compassion Increases State Hope Immediately Following Failure

About the Award

The Undergraduate Student Poster Award recognizes poster presentations characterized by excellence in research, clarity in presentation, and personal knowledge demonstrated in a discussion with judges at the SPSP Annual Convention.

Two award winners will be announced during the SPSP Virtual Annual Convention. Winners will receive a $100 honorarium and have their posters displayedon the SPSP convention site, showcasing their research to the SPSP community. Two runners-up will receive a $50 honorarium.

Selection Process

In the first round of judging, reviewers will evaluate posters based on their effectiveness in communicating main finding(s) or conclusions in a simple, easy-to-follow format. In addition, reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Scores from this round will be used to select ten poster finalists who will present their posters in the next round. Please note that this year, this process will be conducted online. Details will be forthcoming. On the basis of the judges' scores, two first-place winners and two runners-up will be selected.

Eligibility

Eligibility

To be eligible for an award, applicants must:

  • Be the first author on a poster accepted to SPSP 2021.

  • Be a student member of SPSP at the time of application for the award.

  • Be an undergraduate student or recent graduate (not currently in graduate school) at the time of submission.

  • Be able to present their poster during a virtual poster session at the 2021 SPSP virtual convention. The format of the session is currently being revised to adjust to the online format of the convention.
     
  • Present a poster that reflects the applicant's work, and not that of an advisor.

  • Work must NOT be in-press or already published.

  • Past winners of the Student Poster Award are NOT eligible.

Note: Past winners of the Outstanding Research Award or Undergraduate Registration Award are eligible for this award.

How to Apply

How to Apply

If your first-authored poster has been accepted for the SPSP 2021 program and you meet the other criteria, you may apply for a Student Poster Award by uploading the following documents:

  1. A .pdf copy of the poster you intend to present at SPSP 2021.
  2. A 500-700-word (maximum) summary of the research you will be presenting, in .pdf or .doc format.

The research summary should provide an overview of the research and offer complementary information that enhances your poster. This may include more detailed explanations of related literature and how the research question was formed, any secondary analyses and results, or information the presenter might convey in conversations with an audience at their poster presentation

Note: Any submission that exceeds 700 words will be disqualified automatically. In-text citations will count towards the word limit, but a reference list will not.

Competitive submissions will include each of the following sections (or sections equivalent to those) below:

  1. Background Information or Introduction
  2. Research Question(s) or Objective(s)
  3. Hypotheses or Potential Outcomes (if the work is exploratory)
  4. Impact (of project)
  5. Methods or Procedures
  6. Results or Analyses
  7. Conclusions or Discussion
  8. Any in-text citation should be in APA format; a reference list is not required

To improve the poster experience for presenters and attendees alike during SPSP 2021, posters are not required to include all sections described above. If posters do not include one of these sections, however, they should be addressed in the research summary.

In addition, while we encourage that final posters include a QR code (free resource: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/) or link to a personalized website where audience members may easily access further information about the research poster (e.g., Open Science Framework webpage), to ensure the anonymity of our submissions, we advise that applicants refrain from including an actual QR code and instead indicate where the QR code would be placed in the final poster. This may be done by adding a text box that could read, for example, '[Insert QR code here]'. Posters that do not include a QR code or link will not be penalized.

Note: If you are selected to present your poster at SPSP 2021 as a finalist, you will be asked to submit a final version of your poster. This final version can include minor edits meant to incorporate reviewer feedback. However, you should consider the poster that you submit now to be a final version, ready to be presented at the convention.

Judging Criteria & Process

There will be two rounds of judging. Links to rubrics are posted below for each round.

Round 1: In the first round of judging, reviewers will evaluate posters based on their effectiveness in communicating main finding(s) or conclusions in a simple, easy to follow format. In addition, reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Applicants Scores from this round will be used to select 10 poster finalists.

Round 2: In the second round of judging, the 10 final undergraduate student posters will be evaluated by “secret judges” (typically faculty members and postdocs). In addition to the criteria mentioned above, scores in this round will be determined on the basis of how well authors present their posters, guide viewers through the poster, and communicate the important elements of the research. This will all be conducted online.

For more information about what to include within each section of your poster and research summary, or for more details about the judging criteria, please reference the public judging rubrics for Round 1, and Round 2.

Preparing Your Abstract File for Blind Review

Please name your research summary file "USPA_Abstract" and name your poster file “USPA_Poster”. Remove all identifying information (e.g., names, affiliations) from your research summary, poster, AND file names before uploading your submission.

The application deadline is November 9, 2020, 11:59pm U.S. Eastern Time. Late submissions will not be accepted.

applications closed

If you have any questions, please e-mail spsp_gsc@spsp.org.

Past Recipients

2020

Isabella DiLauro headshotIsabella DiLauro, California State University, Long Beach
Poster: Revenge Isn't Always so Sweet: Priming Moderates the Relationship Between Revenge Planning and State Hostility

 
Hannah Bolotin headshotHannah Bolotin, Wesleyan University 
Poster: Mitigating Implicit Bias among Criminal Court Jurors: Intervention through Instruction
 

2019

Morgan Stosic headshotMorgan Stosic, Oregon State University
Poster: Are you choosing the wrong empathy measure?

 

Fran Reckers headshotFrances M. Reckers, Swarthmore College
Poster: Friend or foe?: The effects of friendship on emotional responses to paired gamble outcomes

 

2018

Arthur Marsden, University of North Texas
Poster: Dimensions of empathy as mediators between social political ideology and homophobia

Jessica Paek, Columbia University
Poster: Conquer together: Dyadic regulatory focus complementarity and perceptions of joint goals

Note: This is the final version of Paek’s poster, after being selected for Round 3. All identifying information was absent on the original submission (see Marsden’s poster for an example).

Contact

Contact

For more information, contact the Student Committee at spsp_gsc@spsp.org.

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