Haas Prof Receives SAGE Young Scholars Award

Haas School of Business Marketing Professor Clayton Critcher has received the SAGE Young Scholars Award. The award is given to outstanding young researchers in personality and social psychology. Critcher focuses his research on how people navigate life as economic, political and oral beings and consumer behavior. He is one of five recipients of the award and will receive a one-time award of $5,000 to be used for research, study, or conference travel-related purposes.

The award is given by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology in Collaboration with SAGE Publications. FPSP is designed to provide support for wide-ranging, forward-looking, long-term activities that could enhance the discipline of personality and social psychology. It focuses on development and fundraising, seeking gifts and donations to fund activities that have the potential to augment and broaden the vigor of the field. SAGE Publications is a publisher of hundreds of academic journals and text books.

Candidates for the award must be between 3 to 7 years into their first academic faculty position. Candidates also should demonstrate exceptional individual achievements in social and/or personality psychology through  research that places them at the forefront of their peers. Candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by a peer.

Critcher has been at Berkeley-Haas since 2010. He now serves as an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business. He received his BA in Psychology at Yale University in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University in 2010. His research has also focused on judgment and decision-making, moral psychology, and consumer behavior. Contemporary issues such as racial or sexual discrimination often inspire his research work.

Critcher and the other award recipients will be recognized at the FPSP annual conference on Feb. 26 in Long Beach, California.

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