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The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is seeking nominations for its 2017 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize a scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of self and identity throughout his or her academic career.

The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity. Candidates for the award are not restricted by discipline and membership in ISSI is not a requirement. 

Nominations should include a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, a copy of the nominee's CV, and no more than 3 PDFs of her/his work selected for their quality and relevance to the award. Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by May 20, 2017.

The selection committee (Bertjan Doosje, June Tangney, and David Dunning) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee and the winner will be selected by July 1, 2017.

Nominating materials should be sent to Bertjan Doosje, Chair, ISSI Distinguished Lifetime Career Award Committee: E.J.Doosje@uva.nl

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) seeks nominations for its 2017 Outstanding Early Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize and encourage a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the scientific study of self and identity.

The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity. Nominees should have completed their Ph.D. no earlier than January 2007.

Nominations should include a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, a copy of the nominee's CV, and no more than 3 PDFs of her/his work selected for their quality and relevance to the award. Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by May 20, 2017.

The selection committee (Serena Chen, Emily Balcetis, and Nathan DeWall) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee and the winner will be selected by July 1, 2017.

Nominating materials should be sent to Serena Chen, Chair, ISSI Outstanding Early Career Award Committee: serchen@berkeley.edu

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) will offer a one-day preconference on July 4, 2017. The preconference is prior to the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), which takes place July 5-8, 2017 and is hosted by the Universidad de Granada.

The program includes research talks by Ana Guinote, Carmen Huici, Angel Gomez, Kimberly Kahn, Colin Leach, Constantine Sedikides, and David Sherman. In addition, the preconference will feature a "data blitz" session highlighting the work of early-career scholars and two poster sessions.

**Please note, registration for the Self and Identity EASP preconference is now officially closed. The available space filled up much earlier than expected. If you are interested in attending, please contact Laurie O'Brien (lobrien2@tulane.edu) to find out if space becomes available.**

For information about travel, accommodations, and registration for the General Meeting, please visit www.easpgranada2017.com. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Research on self and identity over the last decade has seen an exponential increase in empirical studies on self-compassion. This special issue of Self and Identity will be focused on the relationship of self-compassion to well-being, broadly defined, with particular interest in experimental methodologies. We are encouraging submissions that address populations at different ages and developmental stages, as well as in diverse contexts. Brief reports are also welcome. 

Prospective authors are asked to submit a 1 page abstract that includes information about the purpose of the study, sample, methods, and preliminary results. Abstracts should be submitted to both Guest Editors - Kristin Neff (kneff@austin.utexas.edu) and Karen Bluth (bluth@med.unc.edu) - by May 1, 2017.  Full manuscripts of submissions that we invite to move forward will be due September 1, 2017. We are also asking that authors who are invited to submit full manuscripts also review two other manuscripts for this special issue. 

Please direct any inquiries (e.g., about suitability, timeline, etc.) to the Guest Editors, Kristin Neff (kneff@austin.utexas.edu), and Karen Bluth (bluth@med.unc.edu).

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is pleased to announce the 2016 winners of its two major annual awards, the Distinguished Lifetime Career Award and the Outstanding Early Career Award (10 years or less post-Ph.D.).

• 2016 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award winner is Dr. David Dunning.

• 2016 Outstanding Early Career Award winner is Dr. Emily Balcetis. 

Both will be presenting invited addresses at the 2017 Self and Identity Pre-conference at SPSP this January.

Thank you to members of this year's lifetime career award committee, Richard Gramzow (chair), William Swann, and Edward Deci, and early career award committee, Serena Chen (chair), Wilhelm Hofman, and Mark Landau.

Shira Gabriel, Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY), University of Buffalo, is the editor for Self and Identity. Please read the editorial written by Dr. Gabriel by clicking the link below.

ISSI and the Editorial Board of Self and Identity grant an award for the best paper published in the journal each volume year. The winner for the 2015 volume is announced here.

The Self and Identity Preconference at SPSP was held on Thursday, January 19, 2017 in San Antonio, TX. The organizers of this year's preconference were Erin O'Mara and Michelle vanDellen. Click here for more information.