Dissertation Awards
2024 Dissertation award recipients
The Psychology of Technology Institute hosts an annual dissertation award program for doctoral students around the world to help them gain support and visibility for their work. In 2024, the Institute awarded 3 dissertation grants of $1,000 each and 3 additional honorable mentions. This initiative is in line with the Institute’s mission of connecting and supporting scholars from multiple scientific disciplines who conduct research examining the factors that shape people's attitudes about new technologies (e.g., social media, smartphones, algorithms, self-driving cars, robots, artificial intelligence), and how the adoption and use of these technologies are transforming how people live, work, play, and interact.
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
Awards (in alphabetical order):
Lauren Eales, University of Minnesota - “Children’s Media Use, Family Psychological Functioning, and Parental Media-Based Racial Socialization during the Dual COVID-19 and Whiteness Pandemics”
Mayaan Malter, Columbia University - “Perceptions of Disability: Implications for New Product Design and Marketing”
Sumer Vaid, Harvard Business School - “Social Media Sensitivity: Probing Heterogeneity Across People, Places, Platforms, Types of Use and Time”
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
Huili Chen, MIT - “Robots as Social Catalysts: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Designing Embodied Social Agents that Foster Long-term Human Collaboration and Connection”
Shahryar Mohsin, Bocconi University - “Gender-Ambiguous Digital Voices and Consumers Judgment”
Ertuğrul Uysal, ETH Zürich - “The Rise of Intelligent Technologies and Social Media: Implications for Human-Technology Relationships”