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Join us in congratulating Vonnie C. McLoyd! 
Vonnie C. McLoyd, University of Michigan, will receive a 2024 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
McLoyd’s seminal work delineates how economic factors such as poverty, unemployment, and financial insecurity influence family life and adolescent development in ways that have intergenerational consequences.
Her studies demonstrate that economic hardship can adversely affect adolescent socioemotional development partly by undermining the mother’s mental health and, in turn, interfering with high-quality parenting. In addition to highlighting links between adolescents’ mental health and how they view their family’s economic conditions, her studies provide evidence of the protective effects of social support on parents and adolescents experiencing poverty, neighborhood violence, and interpersonal violence. McLoyd’s systematic analyses and critiques of the deficit, race-comparative paradigm in developmental psychology helped move the study of African American children toward one that gives more attention to normative development, contextual influences, and sources of within-group variation.
McLoyd has made outstanding contributions as a scholar, mentor, and leader, and through both her empirical and conceptual work, has advanced the standards for developmental psychologists doing scientific work on topics such as poverty, race, family structure, and neighborhoods.
The Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (formerly the NAS Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences) is presented to honor significant advances in the psychological and cognitive sciences with important implications for formal and systematic theory in these fields. Two prizes of $100,000 are presented biennially. The prize was established by Richard C. Atkinson in 2013.
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Congratulations to Vonnie C. McLoyd at University of Michigan, winner of a 2024 National Academy of Sciences’ Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences for her studies on poverty’s impact on human development. Watch her accept the award at the 161st NAS Annual Meeting on April 28. Two Atkinson Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences are presented biennially to honor significant advances in the psychological and cognitive sciences with important implications for formal and systematic theory in these fields.
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Congratulations to Vonnie C. McLoyd, University of Michigan, winner of a 2024 @theNASciences Atkinson Prize for her studies on poverty’s impact on human development! #NASaward #academia
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