Carlson School Associate Professor Kathleen D. Vohs has been named one of the five 2008 SAGE Young Scholars. The award - new this year - is granted by the Foundation for Social and Personality Psychology and SAGE Publications to recognize outstanding early career researchers in personality and social psychology.

On February 7, 2008 the first-ever winners of the award were announced at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 9th annual conference in Albuquerque, NM. Five awards were presented to outstanding young academics who have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in social or personality psychology. The honor recognizes research that places these early career scholars at the forefront of their peers.

Vohs’s research on self-control and self-esteem has been widely published, having appeared in Science, Scientific American Mind and top academic journals in psychology and marketing. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored 4 books in the 7 years since earning her doctorate in Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Vohs is distinctive among the inaugural group of SAGE Young Scholars in that she is also a faculty member in a business school. In 2007, Vohs was awarded a University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, the most competitive University-wide award available to junior faculty members.

In accepting the SAGE Young Scholar Award, Vohs stated, “It is an honor and a delight to receive the award, which also recognizes my students, collaborators and mentors, without whom my research would be severely impoverished.”

Award winners were selected by a subcommittee of the Board of the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, a newly-formed organization established to raise funds and sponsor philanthropic activities advancing the discipline.

More information on Professor Vohs can be found at carlsonschool.umn.edu/marketinginstitute/kvohs.

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