Each year from 2003 onwards, the editorial team of the EJSP awards a prize to the best paper published in EJSP in the preceding year to have been first-authored by a researcher within three years of their doctoral degree.

Wiley as the publisher of the European Journal of Social Psychology, is sponsoring the Award financially.

Past EJSP early career best paper Awards

2004: Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski (2003). Implicit bias in impression formation: Associations influence the construal of individuating information, EJSP, 33(5) 573-589.

2005: Eva Traut-Mattausch
Eva Traut-Mattausch, Stephan Schulz-Hardt, Tobias Greitemeyer & Dieter Frey (2005): Expectancy confirmation in spite of disconfirming evidence: The case of price increases due to the introduction of the Euro, EJSP, 34(6), 739-766.

2006: Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer, Tobias Greitemeyer, Fabian Pollozek & Dieter Frey (2006). The unresponsive bystander: Are bystanders more responsive in dangerous emergencies?, EJSP, 36(2) 267-278.

2007: Karen Gonsalkorale
Karen Gonsalkorale & Kipling D. Williams (2007). The KKK won't let me play: Ostracism even by a despised outgroup hurts, EJSP, 37(6) 1176-1186.