2022 Dissertation Award: Recognition and Gratitude
Co-chairs, 2022 ISRE Dissertation Award
The ISRE dissertation award was originally initiated by the ISRE Early Career Researchers Section. Last year, we, as members of the ISRE board, took on the role of chairing the selection committee.
The 2022 ISRE Dissertation Award was open to ISRE members who received their PhD degree in 2019 or later, and who had not previously submitted their dissertation for this award. There were many excellent applications across a range of disciplines. This demonstrates the strength of the next generation of emotion scholars and is a testament to the enthusiasm for the study of emotion.
Each applicant submitted a 1000-word summary of their thesis that was scored independently by several ISRE members based on the criteria of criteria of scholarly excellence, degree of innovation and/or interdisciplinary nature, methodological appropriateness, and implications for theory, research, and society, as appropriate. Following an initial round of scoring, the review committee selected 3 finalists for the award. Each finalist then submitted their full dissertation, which was reviewed and scored by ISRE members from relevant disciplines.
Recognition
As announced at the 2022 ISRE Meeting in Los Angeles, we wish to congratulate the finalists:
- Chelsea Rae Kelly, PhD (Winner): Identity Sentiments and Emotion Signals in Contemporary Relationships: Modeling Relational Change through Affective Expectation
- Erik Nook, PhD (1st Runner-up): Linguistic Distancing and Emotion Regulation: Theoretical, Developmental, and Translational Perspectives
- Meltem Yucel, PhD (2nd Runner-up): “No fair!”: An investigation of children’s development of fairness
In addition to being recognized at the 2022 ISRE Meeting, we are delighted to share a summary of each finalist’s dissertation in this issue of Emotion Researcher.
Gratitude
Initiatives like the ISRE Dissertation Award are crucial for cultivating future excellence in the study of Emotion and ensuring that ISRE continues its prominence as the interdisciplinary and international society for researchers of emotion. Furthermore, advancing these aims would not be possible without the involvement and generosity of current ISRE members, many of whom helped support this award with their time and effort.
We wish to acknowledge and thank the reviewers of the initial applications: Daniel Dukes, Armindo Freitas-Magalhaes, Karen Gasper, Lotte Gerritsen, Steve Hitlin, Kostas Karpouzis, Priya Narayanan, Rainer Reisenzein, Christina Soriano, Jonathan Turner, Eric Vanman, and Eric Walle.
Additionally, we sincerely thank individuals who reviewed the full dissertations for each finalist: Karen Gasper, Lotte Gerritsen, Rainer Reisenzein, Jonathan Turner, and Eric Vanman.
The ISRE Executive Committee plans to continue the ISRE Dissertation Award every two years, as well as share the research of the finalists in a subsequent issue of Emotion Researchers.
