2018 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)提名华盛顿大学心理学副教授克里斯蒂娜·R·奥尔森博士为2018年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖获得者。奥尔森博士因其创新性和创造性的研究而受到认可，她将社会认知和认知发展这两个不同学科的方法论结合在一起，研究年轻人偏见的起源和发展。她创新性地将基础科学方法应用于主要从临床角度研究的问题。这产生了革命性的影响。在她的许多值得注意的发现中，她发现孩子们相信人们得到了他们应得的--他们认为资源较少的群体应该得到更少的资源。此外，奥尔森的研究还发现，仅仅是不平等的存在就会导致儿童形成偏见和有偏见的行为。2013年，她组织并开始领导一项为期20年的关于幼儿性别发展的纵向研究。这项研究目前跟踪了来自美国45个州的1000多名3-12岁的儿童。该项目将使研究人员能够追踪社会和行为对健康的影响，并评估儿童身份的重要性以及儿童获得的对终身健康和幸福的支持。奥尔森获得了多个奖项，包括：心理科学协会珍妮特·泰勒·斯宾塞变革性早期职业贡献奖(2016)，心理科学协会会员(2016)，Davida Teller杰出教师导师奖(2015)，SAGE青年学者奖(2014)，国际社会认知网络早期职业奖(2014)，实验社会心理学学会会员(2009)，以及NSF研究生研究奖学金(2005)。奥尔森博士于2003年在圣路易斯华盛顿大学获得心理学和非裔美国人研究学士学位，并于2008年在哈佛大学获得社会心理学博士学位。在加入华盛顿大学心理学系之前，她在耶鲁大学的教职生涯始于助理教授(2008-2015)。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Dr. Kristina R. Olson, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington as the 2018 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient. Dr. Olson is recognized for her innovative and creative research that bring together the methodology of two distinct disciplines: social cognition and cognitive development to study the origins and development of biases in young people. She innovatively applies a basic science approach to questions that had been predominantly studied from a clinical perspective. This has had a transformative impact.Among her many notable discoveries, she found that children believe people have what they deserve -- they see groups with fewer resources as deserving fewer resources. Moreover, Olson's research also found the mere existence of inequalities can cause children to develop prejudices and biased behaviors. In 2013, she organized and began leading a 20-year longitudinal research study of early childhood gender development. The study currently follows more than 1,000 children aged 3-12 from 45 U.S. states. The project will enable researchers to track social and behavioral influences on health, and evaluate the importance of childhood identity and the support children receive to lifelong health and well-being.Dr. Olson is the recipient of several awards, including: the Association for Psychological Science's Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions (2016), Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (2016), Davida Teller Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award (2015), SAGE Young Scholars Award (2014), the International Social Cognition Network's Early Career Award (2014), Fellow, Society for Experimental Social Psychology (2009), and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2005). Dr. Olson received the BA degree in Psychology and African-American Studies from Washington University - St. Louis in 2003, and the PhD degree in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2008. She began her faculty career at Yale University as an assistant professor (2008 - 2015), before joining the University of Washington's Psychology Department.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.