title: Bernice Lott: Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.
abstract: Presents a short biography of the winner of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. The 2012 winner is Bernice Lott. Lott's commitment to the public interest has always guided her career, as her groundbreaking research on gender, ethnicity, and race demonstrates. Her leadership on issues of economic injustice paved the way for attention to little-explored dimensions of psychology's social justice agenda: classism and poverty. She was a catalyst for APA initiatives such as the Resolution on Poverty and Socioeconomic Status, and she was instrumental in the establishment of APA's Committee on Socioeconomic Status. Thanks to Lott's vision, APA has a formal structure that institutionalizes poverty-related work as well as a brilliant body of scholarship to inform those efforts. Lott's Award citation and a selected bibliography are also presented.
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000266:history; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States