Awarded in conference years to the most outstanding Early Career, Asian-based scholar(s) of social psychology.

Michael Harris Bond has worked in Asia for five decades, since 1971. To commemorate his many significant contributions to Asian social psychology, a group of his friends and former students set up an endowment fund hosted by AASP for the Michael Harris Bond Award for Early Research Contributions. One or two awards are given every two years.
 
The eligibility criteria for the award are as follows:

  • The awardee can be of any nationality, but must be based in Asia for at least the last three years.

  • She/He must have obtained her/his Ph.D. within eight years from the closing date for the current round of nominations.

  • She/He has made significant contributions to Asian social psychology, broadly defined as psychological research on social processes in the Asian context, of a basic and/or applied nature.

  • She/He will receive a certificate for the award, as well as the sum of US $1,500 and a waiver of the registration fee to attend the forthcoming biannual conference of AASP, at which she/he will deliver a state-of-the-art lecture. The awardee must attend the conference to receive the award (in-person or virtual).

  • The awardee(s) will be invited to write a review that summarizes her/his research contributions and their implications for future research, to be published in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology after being reviewed.

List of Awardees since 2011

2025

Jianning Dang (Beijing Normal University)

Award Address topic: “Cultural Influences in Human-AI Relationships”

2023

Jesus Alfonso Datu (The University of Hong Kong)

Award Address topic: “The Multiple Faces of Gratefulness in a Collectivist Context: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Well-Being Correlates of Gratitude Motives”

2021

Alex English (Zhejiang University)

Award Address topic: “How culture impacts human behavior and psychological change” 

2019

Ronnel B. King (The Education University of Hong Kong)

Award Address topic: “The socio-cultural aspects of student motivation and well-being.”

2017

Bobby Cheon (Nanyang Technological University)

Award Address topic: “Culture and contamination: Defensive psychological responses to culture mixing.”

2015

Takeshi Hamamura (Curtin University)

Award Address topic: “A Cultural Psychological Analysis of Cultural Change”

2013

Melody Manchi Chao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Sylvia Xiaohua Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

2011

Keiko Ishii (Kobe University)

Wan Chin (Catherine) (Nanyang Technological University)