On this page you can find information about the society’s awards and previous awardees. We award the Early Career Award, the Open & Reproducible Science Award, and the Poster Awards at each annual meeting.
Current open calls
Student Travel Awards!
We have a limited number of travel awards available and will be soliciting information from students that are presenting posters to assess need. Please look out for our emails!
Best Poster Award
This award recognizes the best posters contributed to a S4SN meeting. The deadline for poster submissions for the 2024 meeting in Japan was January 15, 2024.
Congrats to our 2023 Early Career Award Winner Nancy Padilla Coreano
Learn more about Dr. Padilla-Coreano’s lab and research here: https://www.padillacoreanolab.com
Congrats to our 2023 Early Career Award Winner Emilie Caspar
Learn more about Dr. Caspar’s lab and research here: https://moralsocialbrain.com
Previous Early Career Award winners
2022
Monique Smith, UC San Diego, USA
Irene Perini, Linköping University, Sweden
2021
Leah Mayo, Linköping University, Sweden
Michael Yartsev, UC Berkeley, USA
2020
Olga Dal Monte, University of Torino, Italy
Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University, USA
2019
Patricia Lockwood, University of Oxford, UK
Weizhe Hong, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis, USA
Matthew Apps, University of Oxford, UK
2017
Jonathan B. Freeman, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Oren Forkosh, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Germany
2016
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA
Steve Chang, Ph.D., Yale University, USA
2015
Molly J Crockett, University of Oxford, UK
Teruhiro Okuyama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2014
Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, USA
Olga Klimecki, Ph.D., University of Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Jay Van Bavel, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Zoe Donaldson, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA
2011
Lauren O’Connell, Stanford University, USA