Dunnette Prize Grant

Funder: Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Foundation (SIOP)

The Dunnette Prize, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, honors individuals whose research has significantly advanced our understanding of individual differences in human behavior and performance. Established in recognition of Professor Marvin D. Dunnette's contributions, the prize includes a $50,000 cash award and an invited address at the SIOP Annual Conference. Eligible nominees may include individuals or teams, with a nomination letter from a SIOP member required.

The Dunnette Prize is given to honor living individuals whose work has significantly expanded knowledge of the causal significance of individual differences through advanced research, development, and/or application.
Professor Marvin D. Dunnette devoted virtually his entire academic and professional life to the assessment, prediction, and explanation of individual differences in human behavior and performance. There are certainly many important interventions that influence behavior and performance, but their interactions with individual differences are equally important. The Dunnette Prize was established to recognize individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to understanding (assessing, predicting, and explaining) human behavior and performance by explicating the role played by individual differences. Such contributions can be in the form of basic research, applied research, or applications in practice. Professor Dunnette did not see them as distinct entities – each informs the others.
The Dunnette Prize carries a cash award of $50,000, to be presented at the SIOP Annual Conference. In addition, recipient(s) are expected to give an invited address about the Prize winning contributions at the SIOP conference at which the award is received.

Eligibility

An individual or team may be nominated for the Dunnette Prize.A nomination letter by a SIOP member is required.Self-nominations are welcome.SIOP membership is not a requirement for nominee(s).The following properties of overall contribution will be considered:Appropriateness: primary focus is on the assessment, prediction, explanation, or specification of individual differences, i.e., emphasis is on individual differences that are important for predicting, changing, or explaining human behavior and performance.Quality: sound scientific and technical base. Fads, fashions, and folderol will be discounted.Impact: innovative, programmatic work that has had significant and lasting impact on the field, advancing understanding, research, and/or practice. The research or work illuminates understanding of differences among individuals and the causal role of individual differences on behavior and performance.Number of publications and citation counts are secondary and perhaps even irrelevant concerns. Rather, it is the quality and impact of the work along with focus on the role of individual differences in predicting, changing, and explaining human behavior and performance.