Announcing the winners of the Stress Science Paper of the Year 

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the first annual Stress Science Paper of the Year Award! There were three categories considered and a winner and honorable mention for each category. The first and second place papers for each category are announced below: 

Basic research/animal models 

 

First place: 

 

Honorable Mention: 

 

Empirical human/clinical research 

 

First place:  

Lewis, T. T., Parker, R., Murden, R., Spikes, T., Erving, C., McKinnon, I. I., Van Dyke, M. E., Booker, B., Quyummi, A., Vaccarino, V., & Moore, R. H. (2023). Network stressors, personal stressors, and ambulatory blood pressure in African-American women—Does superwoman schema play a role? Health Psychology, 42(7), 485–495. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001309 

 

Honorable Mention:  

Almeida, D. M., Rush, J., Mogle, J., Piazza, J. R., Cerino, E., & Charles, S. T. (2023). Longitudinal change in daily stress across 20 years of adulthood: Results from the national study of daily experiences. Developmental Psychology, 59(3), 515–523. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001469 

 

New methods/theory/review 

 

First place:  

Smyth, J. M., Zawadzki, M. J., Marcusson-Clavertz, D., Scott, S. B., Johnson, J. A., Kim, J., Toledo, M. J., Stawski, R. S., Sliwinski, M. J., & Almeida, D. M. (2023). Computing Components of Everyday Stress Responses: Exploring Conceptual Challenges and New Opportunities. Perspectives on psychological science,18(1), 110–124. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221082108 

Honorable Mention: 

 

Slavich, G. M., Roos, L. G., Mengelkoch, S., Webb, C. A., Shattuck, E. C., Moriarity, D. P., & Alley, J. C. (2023). Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions. Health Psychology Review, 17(1), 5–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2023.2171900 

 

Nomination and review procedure: 

Nominations were accepted via email and our web platform between January and March of 2024 for papers that were accepted for publication in 2023. 

Nominated papers were first divided into three paper categories:  

1. Basic research/animal models 

1. Empirical human/clinical research 

1. New methods/theory/review 

 

The directors of the stress network then scored each of the papers independently across three criteria: 1) quality and design, 2) novelty, and 3) potential impact on the field. These scores were then averaged for a total score. When the directors' scores were consistent for the top two papers, those were selected as the winner and honorable mention for that category. When these scores differed or were tied, the post docs and associate directors of the SMN were asked to read and score those papers to determine the final selection. In the cases where a director had a conflict of interest because they were a co-author of a nominated paper, that director recused themselves from the review process for that paper.