Announcing the 4th Biennial Best JLSP Paper Award goes to: Sylvie Graf (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic), Michal Bilewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland), Eerika Finell (University of Helsinki, Finland), and Daniel Geschke (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany) (2013). “Nouns cut slices: Effects of linguistic forms on intergroup bias.” JLSP, 32 (1) 62-83. A committee of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology now decides the Award and the committee (Cindy Gallois, Gyuseog Q, Han and George Ray, chaired by Liz Jones) came to it because of the paper’s innovations, rigorous methodology, and its overall contribution to the development of the social psychology of language. Congratulations to the authors and special thanks to the committee for their work!
Announcing the Inaugural Biennial Best JLSP Reviewer Award goes to Brian Spitzberg (San Diego State University) for his consistent systematic and comprehensive analyses that are not only constructive for authors and invaluable for the Editor but for providing extensive bibliographies that highlight so many diverse cross-disciplinary literatures.
