Psychologist Roy Baumeister is honored with lifetime career achievement award

Psychologist Roy Baumeister has received the Jack Block Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Baumeister, the lone recipient of this lifetime career achievement award in 2011, is FSU’s Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology and has published more than 450 items, including dozens of scholarly articles and 28 books.

He has published in many areas of social and personality psychology, including self-control; self-esteem; emotion; social rejection and belongingness; sexuality; decision making and free will; and self-destructive behavior.

The award is named for Jack Block, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley who died in 2010.