2024 Anne Anastasi General Psychology Graduate Student AWARD
The Anne Anastasi awards, named for APA past-president and funded by the Anne Anastasi Foundation, are given to two outstanding psychology graduate students, one in the first two years of graduate study and the second in more than two years of graduate study.
2+ years beyond the bachelor's degree
Francisco Cruz
Francisco Cruz is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Lisbon and an affiliate of the Concepts and Cognition Lab at Princeton University. He is a Foundation for Science and Technology Fellow and a Fulbright Portugal 2024 Scholar. His research interests span multiple literatures and are inherently disciplinary, combining different subfields of psychology with other disciplines, such as philosophy. He is particularly interested in lay beliefs about science in general and psychology in particular, namely beliefs about the extent to which science can and cannot explain phenomena and their underpinnings. His research also explores motivated reasoning in science, trust in non-expert (scientific) testimony, representations of social groups, and cognitive processes underlying face and word perception.
< 2 years beyond the bachelor's
Norah Aldawsari
Norah Fahad Aldawsari is originally from Saudi Arabia and has studied at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. She is a certified trainer in Trauma Stress Relief from the Global Initiative for Stress and Trauma Treatment - Greater Geneva. Her research interest and clinical experiences include working with low- and middle-income communities, serious mental health illnesses in clinical and forensic settings, trauma and adverse experiences, cross cultures and refugee populations, resilience, and neuropsychological assessment in the United States, Europe, and her home country, Saudi Arabia. Her research included understanding trauma, adversity, and resilience among female Muslim Arab refugees in the United States using grounded theory. Norah is the founder and the leader of the volunteering initiative team, Nafs, which promotes awareness of mental health, trauma, and adversity among Arabic speakers.
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