Each year from 2003 onwards, the editorial team of the EJSP awards a prize to the best paper published in EJSP in the preceding year to have been first-authored by a researcher within three years of their doctoral degree.

Wiley as the publisher of the European Journal of Social Psychology, is sponsoring the Award financially.

Past EJSP early career best paper Awards

2011: Lena Nadarevic
Lena Nadarevic & Edgar Erdfelder (2011). Cognitive Processes in Implicit Attitude Tasks:  An Experimental Validation of the Trip Model, EJSP, 41(2) 254-268.

2010: Juliette Gatto
Juliette Gatto, Michaël Dambrun, Christian Kerbrat & Pierre de Oliveira (2010). Prejudice in the police: On the processes underlying the effects of selection and group socialisation, EJSP, 40(2) 252-269.

2009: Suzanne Oosterwijk
Suzanne Oosterwijk, Mark Rotteveel, Agneta H. Fischer & Ursula Hess (2009). Embodied emotion concepts: How generating words about pride and disappointment influences posture, EJSP, 39(3) 457-466.

2008: Monika Stelzl
Monika Stelzl, Leslie Janes & Clive Seligman (2008). Champ or chump: Strategic utilization of dual social identities of others, EJSP, 38(1) 128-138.

2007: Karen Gonsalkorale
Karen Gonsalkorale & Kipling D. Williams (2007). The KKK won't let me play: Ostracism even by a despised outgroup hurts, EJSP, 37(6) 1176-1186.

2006: Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer, Tobias Greitemeyer, Fabian Pollozek & Dieter Frey (2006). The unresponsive bystander: Are bystanders more responsive in dangerous emergencies?, EJSP, 36(2) 267-278.

2005: Eva Traut-Mattausch
Eva Traut-Mattausch, Stephan Schulz-Hardt, Tobias Greitemeyer & Dieter Frey (2005): Expectancy confirmation in spite of disconfirming evidence: The case of price increases due to the introduction of the Euro, EJSP, 34(6), 739-766.

2004: Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski (2003). Implicit bias in impression formation: Associations influence the construal of individuating information, EJSP, 33(5) 573-589.