Dolores Albarracín Receives Career Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Dolores Albarracín has been honored with the 2025 Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).

Albarracín is a renowned scholar in the fields of attitudes, communication, and behavior and directs both the Social Action Lab at Penn as well as the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Communication Science division. She has joint appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the department of psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences.

The SPSP Career Contribution Award is a senior career award “that honors a scholar who has made major theoretical and/or empirical contributions to social psychology and/or personality psychology or to bridging these areas together,” according to the society. “This award may recognize recipients who have been under-recognized for their distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers.”

Albarracín is a fellow of the SPSP, served as its president from 2022-24, and was honored with the society’s 2020 Diener Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Contributions in Social Psychology.