Award Winners
The Society presents two awards each year at the Annual Meeting. Past winners of these awards are listed here.



Joseph Zubin Award
The Society for Research in Psychopathology instituted an award given each Fall to one deserving individual for life-time contributions to the understanding of psychopathology. The first award was given in 1987 to Dr. Joseph Zubin. In 1990, the organization's annual award was officially named the Joseph Zubin Award. Listed below are the winners of the award.

2010: Elaine Walker

2009: Connie Hammen

2008: Alan Kazdin

2007: Milton Strauss
2005: Marty Harrow
2004: George Brown
2003: Michael Rutter
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2002: Rue L. Cromwell
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2001: Irving I. Gottesman
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2000: Seymour Kety
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1999: Aaron T. Beck
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1998: Brendan A. Maher
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1997: Martin E.P. Seligman
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1996: Sarnoff A. Mednick
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1995: Myrna M. Weissman
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1994: Philip S. Holzman
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1993: Paul E. Meehl
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1992: Jean P. Chapman
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1992: Loren J. Chapman
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1991: Peter M. Lewinsohn
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1990: Peter H. Venables
1989: David Rosenthal
1987: Norman Garmezy
1986: Joseph Zubin
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Smadar Levin Award

 

The Smadar Levin Award was created to honor the memory of Smadar Levin, who left a lasting mark on psychopathology research before her untimely death. The award is given at the Annual Meeting each year to the graduate student or other predoctoral individual who makes the most outstanding poster presentation.

 

2010: Rebecca Price
Rutgers University, Advisor Jan Mohlman (Poster Title: Emotional stroop performance in older adults: Behavioral and fMRI correlates of generalized anxiety)
2010: Daniella Furman (Honorable Mention)
Stanford University, Advisor Ian Gotlib (Poster Title: Altered resting frontostriatal functional connectivity in Major Depressive Disorders)
2010: Lindsey Sherdell (Honorable Mention)
Stanford University, Advisor Ian Gotlib (Poster Title: Anticipatory pleasure predicts motivation for reward in major depression)
2009: Randy Auerbach
McGill University, Advisor Azbela (Poster Title: A Comparison of Transactional and Diathesis-Stress Models of Depression: An Examination of Perceived Social Support, Symptom Specificity, and Interpersonal versus Noninterpersonal Stressors)
2009: Vijay Mittal (honorable mention)
University of California at Los Angeles, Advisor Ty Cannon (Poster Title: Markers of basal ganglia dysfunction and conversion: Neurocognitive deficits, dyskinesia, and individuals at high-risk for psychosis)
2009: Ryan Bogdan  (honorable mention)
Harvard University, Advisor Diego Pizzagalli (Poster Title: TREK1 genotypes linked to antidepressant response are associated with potentiated neural responses to reward)
2008: Jessica Yokley (honorable mention)
University of Pittsburgh, Advisor Michael Pogue-Geile (Poster Title: "Genetic Associations between Neuregulin-1 and Cognition in a Large Multiplex Pedigree Family Study of Schizophrenia")
2008: Naomi Sadeh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Advisor Edelyn Verona (Poster Title: "Serotonin Transporter Polymorphisms Predict Psychopathic Tendencies in Youth as a Ffunction of Socioeconomic Status")
2007: Emily Neuhaus
University of Washington, Advisor Ted Beauchaine (Poster Title: "Coercive processes in the families of preschoolers with ADHD")
2007: Kristin Naragon (honorable mention)
University of Iowa, Advisor David Watson (Poster Title: "Differential relations of symptoms of depression and social anxiety to the facets of extraversion/positive emotionality")
2007: Kristin Haut (honorable mention)
University of Minnesota, Advisor Angus MacDonald (Poster Title: "Cognitive training in schizophrenia: Prefrontal cortical changes and behavioral correlates")
2005: Jason K. Johannesen
Indiana University (Advisor is Bill Hetrick. Title of the poster: Heightened Awareness of Perceptual Anomaly Relates to Gamma Frequency Abnormality in Schizophrenia)
2005: Rebecca E. Cooney (honorable mention)
Stanford University (Advisor is Ian Gotlib. Title of poster: Threat-related Processing of Neutral Faces in Social Anxiety Disorder: Is Neutral Really Neutral?)
2005: Scott Fish (honorable mention)
San Diego State/UCSD (Advisor is Eric Granholm. Title of the poster: Distractibility and schizophrenia: pupillary evidence of a specific cognitive deficit)
2004: Lea Dougherty
Department: SUNY Stonybrook
Advisor: Daniel Klein

Title: A Growth Curve Analysis of the Course of Dysthymic Disorder: The Effects of Chronic Stress and Moderation by Adverse Parent-Child Relationships and Family History
Authors: Lea Dougherty, Daniel Klein, Joanne Davila
2004: Judy Thompson (Honorable Mention)
Department: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Michael Pogue-Geile

Title: Cannabis Use and Risk for Psychosis: A Prospective Study
Authors: Judy Thompson, Michael Pogue-Geile, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Rebecca Stallings, Rolf Loeber
2004: George Slavich (Honorable Mention)
Department: University of Oregon
Advisor: Scott Monroe

Title: Physiological Correlates of Severe Life Stress in Clinical Depression
Authors: George Slavich, Jonathan Rottenberg, Corrie Doyle, Scott Monroe, James Gross, Ian Gotlib
2003: Jelena P. King
University of Waterloo
Advisor: Bruce Christensen (at Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto)

Quantifying visuomotor function in schizophrenia using a visual illusion paradigm: Evidence for selective dorsal pathway impairment.
2003: Bernard P. Chang (honorable mention)
Harvard University
Advisor: Mark Lenzenweger (at SUNY Binghamton)

Investigating somatosensory processing in familial schizotypes
2003: Junghee Lee (honorable mention)
Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Sohee Park

Delay-related maintenance activation in schizophrenia in a
delayed-response task: An event-related fMRI study.
2002: Brian Hicks
Department of Psychology, Univ. of Minnesota
Advisor: Robert Krueger

Title: The Familial Transmission of Externalizing Psychopathology
Authors: Brian M. Hicks, Robert F. Krueger, William G. Iacono, Matt McGue, & Christopher J. Patrick
2002: Patricia DiParsia (honorable mention)
Department of Psychology, Univ. of Melbourne
Advisor: Nicholas Allen

Title: Mood induction elicits differential startle modulation by social threat in formerly depressed versus never depressed individuals
Authors: Patricia Di Parsia & Nicholas B. Allen
2002: Junghee Lee (honorable mention)
Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Sohee Park

Title: The effect of target salience on the Continuous Performance Task (CPT-AX) performance in schizophrenia patients.
Authors: Junghee Lee and Sohee Park