The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recognizes APS members who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Research contributions can be transformative in various ways, such as the establishment of new approaches or paradigms within a field of psychological science, or the development or advancement of boundary-crossing research. Award recipients reflect the best of the many new and cutting edge ideas coming from of our most creative and promising investigators who together embody the future of psychological science. Nominees must have completed their PhD within eight years of the date of the annual meeting at which the award would be conferred. Extensions will be considered for nominees who have taken time away from research for reasons such as medical, disability, family care, natural disasters, and active duty military service.