2018 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）任命克里斯蒂娜R。奥尔森，华盛顿大学心理学副教授，2018年的艾伦·T。沃特曼奖获得者奥尔森被公认为她的创新和创造性的研究，汇集了两个不同学科的方法：社会认知和认知发展，研究偏见的起源和发展的年轻人。她创新地将基础科学方法应用于主要从临床角度研究的问题。在她的许多显著发现中，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产生偏见和有偏见的行为。2013年，她组织并开始领导一项为期20年的儿童早期性别发展纵向研究。该研究目前跟踪了来自美国45个州的1,000多名3-12岁的儿童。该项目将使研究人员能够跟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终身健康和福祉的支持。奥尔森博士是多个奖项的获得者，包括：心理科学协会珍妮特·泰勒·斯宾塞转型早期职业贡献奖（2016年），研究员，心理科学协会（2016年），大卫泰勒杰出教师导师奖（2015年），SAGE青年学者奖（2014年），国际社会认知网络的早期职业奖（2014年），研究员，社会实验社会心理学（2009年），NSF Graduate Research Fellowship（2005） 奥尔森博士于2003年获得华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校心理学和非裔美国人研究学士学位，并于2008年获得哈佛大学社会心理学博士学位。 她在耶鲁大学担任助理教授（2008 - 2015），之后加入华盛顿大学心理学系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.