Press Release:
Floyd Rudmin won the 2004-2005 Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award, given by SPSSI (Div. 9 of the APA) with his paper Debate in Science: The Case of Acculturation!

THE 2004-2005 OTTO KLINEBERG INTERCULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AWARD

This year SPSSI's Otto Klineberg Intercultural & International Relations Award Committee read19 papers published across a wide array of topic areas including policy, political science, experimental social psychology, developmental and clinical psychology. After careful review, the committee selected as first place winner, Floyd Rudmin's paper Debate in Science: The Case of Acculturation. It is "an exceptionally sophisticated and provocative paper, and we anticipate it will be highly influential." Also of high merit and worthy of honorable mentions were Viorica Marian & Margarita Kaushanskaya's, Self-Construal and Emotion in Bicultural Bilinguals, published in Journal of Memory and Language, 2004, 51, pp. 190-201, and Jonathan Mercer's, Rationality and Psychology in International Politics, in press, with International Organization. This year, the Klineberg Committee consisted of Drs. Daphna Oyserman (chair), Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe, and Donald Taylor.

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) was founded in 1936 and became Division 9 of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1945. This award commemorates Otto Klineberg (1899-1992), a founding member of SPSSI and a life-long advocate of psychological science in the service of international peace and human justice. For example, SPSSI, Dr. Klineberg, and psychological evidence were all active in the 1954 US Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education ending racially segregated schools.