Best Paper Award

Every other year, at the bi-annual conference, the KLI seeks to acknowledge excellence by awarding the best paper authored by a PhD student. The winner will receive 1000 euros, and will be asked to present his or her paper at the KLI conference. In case the paper has been written by several PhD students, the award will be divided equally among these students.

Eligible are students who are a member of the KLI or were a member until at least a year before the current deadline, and who had not yet obtained their PhD a year before the deadline. Also, a PhD student must be first author of the paper he or she proposed, and each PhD student can participate only once.

The committee that evaluates the quality of the papers will be appointed by the Executive Committee. Most important criteria are (a) degree of innovation, (b) scientific importance and/or practical importance (c) quality of design and methods, and (d) general impression.

The deadline for submitting papers was January 1st 2012: paper submission is closed. Please click here for the criteria for submitting a paper.

Recipients of the KLI Best Paper Award

The KLI has honored outstanding papers by her Ph.D. students since 2001. Listed below are the previous award winners:

2010

Matthijs Baas: "A Meta-Analysis of 25 Years of Mood-Creativity Research: Hedonic Tone, Activation, or Regulatory Focus?"

2008

Marijn Poortvliet: "Achievement Goals and Interpersonal Behavior: How Mastery and Performance Goals Shape Information Exchange"

2006

Ruud Custers: "Positive Affect as Implicit Motivator: On the Nonconscious Operation of Behavioral Goals"

2003

Rick B. van Baaren: "It Takes Two to Mimic: Behavioral Consequences of Self-Construals"

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Judit V. Arends-Tóth: "Multiculturalism and Acculturation"

2001

Sander L. Koole: "The Cessation of Rumination Through Self-Affirmation"