Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award: Lydia G. Roos

The Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award is given jointly by Psi Chi and APA. The award was established to recognize young researchers at the beginning of their professional lives and to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of Psi Chi and the 100th anniversary of psychology as a science (dating from the founding of Wundt's laboratory). It was named for Dr. Edwin B. Newman, the first national president of Psi Chi (1929) and one of its founders. The 2019 recipient is Lydia G. Roos, "for an outstanding research paper that examined how trait suppression and reappraisal interact with stressful life events to affect cortisol reactivity. Suppression, but not reappraisal, was associated with cortisol responses to acute stress for people with more exposure to recent stressful events, particularly when events included a relationship stressor. The paper, titled "Recent Stressful Life Events, Relationship Stressors, and Cortisol Reactivity: The Moderating Role of Suppression," and coauthored by Drs. Jeanette M. Bennett and Sara M. Levens, was the basis for Lydia G. Roos's selection as the recipient of the 2019 Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).