SEP Awards

2025 Howard Crosby Warren Medal

Dr. Elke U. Weber, Princeton University

Citation: “For her careful and creative empirical research that has led to insightful and impactful theories of how people make decisions, and the thoughtful implementation of these theories in sophisticated mathematical and computational models..”

Dr Weber has advanced our understanding of complex human decision making in individuals and in groups. Through her multi-disciplinary lens, drawing variously from psychology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology, she has addressed a wide range of important societal problems, including climate change, environmental sustainability, energy policy, and financial and economic decisions.

For her many contributions to the study of human decision making and cognition and its societal impacts, the Society of Experimental Psychologists awards the 2024 Howard Crosby Warren Medal to Elke U. Weber.

2025 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Robert Levenson, UC Berkeley

Citation: "For his transformative approach to the scientific study of human emotion and the ensuing conceptualization of human nature. The introduction of innovative methods, paradigm-shifting measurement techniques, and a clear commitment to studying ethologically rich behavior has fostered a deep understanding of this domain of study."

Dr. Robert Levenson has contributed significantly to our understanding of emotion, its neural and physiological bases, regulation, and instantiation in healthy and unhealthy relationships.

For his groundbreaking contributions to the study of human emotion in the context of healthy and unhealthy relationships, their biological bases, and across cultures, the Society of Experimental Psychologists awards the 2025 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Levenson.

2026 Early Investigator Award

Talia Konkle, Harvard University

Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world around us? She employs a combination of behavioral techniques, human functional neuroimaging and computational modeling approaches to characterize representational spaces of the mind and discover how they are mapped onto the surface of the brain. Talia has been an assistant professor at Harvard since 2015 and was promoted to fully tenured professor, effective January 1, 2023. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in Cognitive Science and did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley in Cognitive Science and Applied Math.