The Cattell Early Career Research Award is named for Raymond B. Cattell, a founder of SMEP. This award is an early-career award given annually by the Society to a young researcher who has made outstanding contributions to multivariate experimental psychology and who shows promise of continued work of a very high quality. The recipient need not be a member of SMEP. Criteria for the award are as follows: (1) outstanding contribution to multivariate experimental psychology; (2) age 40 or younger, or 10 years or less post-Ph.D.; (3) a minimum of one publication in a refereed journal. Nominations are solicited annually from members of the Society, and members then vote among the nominees to select a winner. The winner of the Cattell Early Career Research Award is invited to the annual SMEP meeting to present an address and is also given a $1,200 honorarium and $900 for travel expenses.

Past recipients of the Cattell Award:

2011: Lesa Hoffman, University of Nebraska

2010: Guangjian Zhang, University of Notre Dame

2009: Nathan R. Kuncel, University of Minnesota

2008: Kristopher J. Preacher University of Kansas

2007: Gitta H. Lubke University of Notre Dame

2006: Jeremy Biesanz University of British Columbia

2005: Albert Maydeu-Olivares University of Barcelona

2004 Daniel Bauer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2003 Deniz Ones University of Minnesota

2002 Kehai Yuan University of Notre Dame

2001 Patrick Curran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2000 Steve Boker University of Notre Dame

1999 Gerard Saucier University of Oregon

1998 Steven Reise UCLA

1997 Niels Waller University of California Davis

1996: Oliver John University of California Berkeley

1995: --No award--

1994: Michael Neale Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

1993: Roger Millsap Baruch College, CUNY (Now at Arizona State University)

1992: Keith Widaman University of California Riverside

1991: Linda Collins University of Southern California (Now at Pennsylvania State University)

1990: Scott Maxwell University of Notre Dame

1989: Wayne deSarbo

1988: Robert Cudeck University of Minnesota

1987: Jack McArdle University of Virginia

1986: James Steiger University of British Columbia

1985: --No award--

1984: --No award--

1983: --No award--

1982: Robert Sternberg Yale University

1981: Larry Hubert now at University of Illinois

1980: Gene Glass

1979: --No award--

1978: Patricia Cohen

1977: Myron Wish

1976: Ralph Hakstian

1975: Paul Baltes

1974: Nancy Hirschberg

1973: John Horn

1972: Peter Bentler & John Nessleroade