Special Announcement: Larry J. Young Memorial Travel Fellowship
We are pleased to open applications for the Larry J. Young Memorial Travel Fellowship! In memory of Professor Larry J. Young’s profound contributions to the field of social neuroscience and his commitment to supporting early-career researchers, the Society for Social Neuroscience is pleased to announce the Larry J. Young Memorial Travel Fellowship. This fellowship aims to provide financial support to individuals who demonstrate both scientific merit and financial need in order to attend the upcoming Society for Social Neuroscience conference meeting.
Fellowship Details
*Award Amount: Waiver of registration fee (up to $500 equivalent per awardee)
*Number of Awards: Up to 5 fellowships will be granted
Application Deadline: August 1st, 2025
Further Details and Apply Now: https://forms.gle/FKKibv7MEv2JxywQ9
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with thought leaders and enhance your professional journey.
Early Career Award-
Nominations are Open! Apply by July 1st. 2025!
We are inviting applications for this distinguished award recognizing the formation of new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and or the development or advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behaviour. Two awards will be given, one for human research and one for non-human animal research. We encourage applications representing the diversity of our membership in terms of geography, gender and protected characteristics. Please also include information on whether and how you have included open science practices in your research (e.g. date, code and resource sharing, pre-printing manuscripts).
We are happy to consider self-nominations.
More information on eligibility and nomination materials here: https://forms.gle/bh2ihBp8W8Ek4oDY6
On this page you can find information about the society’s awards and previous awardees. We award the Early Career Award, the Open & Reproducible Science Award, and the Poster Awards at each annual meeting.
Congrats to our 2023 Early Career Award Winner Nancy Padilla Coreano
Learn more about Dr. Padilla-Coreano’s lab and research here: https://www.padillacoreanolab.com
Congrats to our 2023 Early Career Award Winner Emilie Caspar
Learn more about Dr. Caspar’s lab and research here: https://moralsocialbrain.com
Previous Early Career Award winners
2022
Monique Smith, UC San Diego, USA
Irene Perini, Linköping University, Sweden
2021
Leah Mayo, Linköping University, Sweden
Michael Yartsev, UC Berkeley, USA
2020
Olga Dal Monte, University of Torino, Italy
Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University, USA
2019
Patricia Lockwood, University of Oxford, UK
Weizhe Hong, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis, USA
Matthew Apps, University of Oxford, UK
2017
Jonathan B. Freeman, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Oren Forkosh, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Germany
2016
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA
Steve Chang, Ph.D., Yale University, USA
2015
Molly J Crockett, University of Oxford, UK
Teruhiro Okuyama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2014
Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, USA
Olga Klimecki, Ph.D., University of Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Jay Van Bavel, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Zoe Donaldson, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA
2011
Lauren O’Connell, Stanford University, USA