The Fourth Annual Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research
The SITAR Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) is very pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research. Before we announce this year’s winner, we’d like to provide a little background on the award first. The Award is given annually by SITAR in order to recognize and promote outstanding student research in interpersonal psychology. One award is given for the best student presentation (poster or talk) given at the annual SITAR conference. Students indicate their desire to participate in the competition when submitting their proposals for the conference. These students are automatically enrolled in the award competition upon acceptance of their conference proposals. The only additional thing participants need to do is submit their actual presentations by the start of the conference. Yes, it is that easy to participate! Further details for potential participants are available at: http://sitarconference2012.weebly.com/wiggins-student-award.html.
The fourth annual award competition took place at the conference in Montreal, Canada. Five student members of SITAR chose to participate in the competition. All five presentations were excellent. Indeed, the overall quality of students’ work in our society makes the job of the judges difficult. After careful consideration of multiple criteria, the judges have conferred a winner: Marina Milyavskaya of McGill University is the fourth recipient of the annual Wiggins Award for her presentation entitled “Interpersonal consequences of self-criticism and dependency in close female friendships”. Congratulations Marina!
We also wish to announce an Honorable Mention, as well. This distinction goes to Michael J. Roche of Pennsylvania State University, whose talk entitled “Person-specific longitudinal assessment of interpersonal complementarity” was also seen as particularly strong by the judges. Congratulations Mike!
SITAR members can look forward to a presentation of the award winning research in the upcoming issue of our newsletter. We are very proud to have each and every one of our student presenters associated with SITAR, and we look forward to continuing to see more of their superb interpersonal research in the future. “Thank you!” to everyone who participated in the competition this year, including the judges, who gave their best effort to provide a fair decision. We would like to encourage all of our student members to apply for the award next year.
The GSAC.
The fourth annual award competition took place at the conference in Montreal, Canada. Five student members of SITAR chose to participate in the competition. All five presentations were excellent. Indeed, the overall quality of students’ work in our society makes the job of the judges difficult. After careful consideration of multiple criteria, the judges have conferred a winner: Marina Milyavskaya of McGill University is the fourth recipient of the annual Wiggins Award for her presentation entitled “Interpersonal consequences of self-criticism and dependency in close female friendships”. Congratulations Marina!
We also wish to announce an Honorable Mention, as well. This distinction goes to Michael J. Roche of Pennsylvania State University, whose talk entitled “Person-specific longitudinal assessment of interpersonal complementarity” was also seen as particularly strong by the judges. Congratulations Mike!
SITAR members can look forward to a presentation of the award winning research in the upcoming issue of our newsletter. We are very proud to have each and every one of our student presenters associated with SITAR, and we look forward to continuing to see more of their superb interpersonal research in the future. “Thank you!” to everyone who participated in the competition this year, including the judges, who gave their best effort to provide a fair decision. We would like to encourage all of our student members to apply for the award next year.
The GSAC.