Award Winners

Below are the 2025 awardees of the various ISPP Awards. For more information on the awards, nomination processes, and past winners, please visit the respective pages.

2025 Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions

James Druckman, University of Rochester, USA


2025 Nevitt Sanford Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Political Psychology

Eran Halperin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


2025 David O. Sears Book Award

Oded Adomi Leshem, Hebrew University, Israel For Hope Amidst Conflict

Mollie Cohen, Purdue University, USA For None of the Above: Protest Voting in Latin American Democracies


2025 Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award

James N. Druckman, University of Rochester, USA; Samara Klar, University of Arizona, USA; Yanna Krupnikov, University of Michigan, USA; Matthew Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania, USA; John Barry Ryan, University of Michigan, USA For Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter

James N. Druckman, University of Rochester, USA
Samara Klar, University of Arizona, USA
Matthew Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

2025 Jim Sidanius Early Career Award

Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Emily Kubin, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany


2025 John L. Sullivan Mentorship Award

Levente Littvay, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary

Jeff Mondak, University of Illinois, USA


2025 Jeanne Knutson Award

Not awarded in 2025


2025 Roberta Sigel Best Conference Paper by Early Career Member Award 1

Andrew Trexler, Duke University, USA – “The unequal challenge of learning from under-informative news”

2025 Roberta Sigel Best Conference Paper by Early Career Members Award 2

Isabelle Nic Craith, University College Dublin, Ireland – “Supraordinate identity integration in childhood: Intergroup implications of ethno-national and supraordinate identification in three divided societies”

2025 Best Dissertation Award

Ameni Mehrez, Harvard Kennedy School, USA – A Theory of Value-Based Cleavages Across Religions: Values, Ideology, and Behavior

Honorable Mentions

Natán Skigin, University of Notre Dame, USA – Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship

Hohyun Yoon, University of Pennsylvania, USA – Emotion and Coercive Credibility in International Crises