Jackson Lu, Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies, recently received three honors:
First, Lu is a recipient of the 2024 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, recognizing cutting-edge research of “particularly creative and promising APS members who embody the future of the field,” from among scholars of all domains of psychology (e.g., social psychology, personality psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, etc.), making it perhaps the most prestigious early-career award in psychology. The award announcement cites “Lu’s groundbreaking research on the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ … that East Asians face in the United States” and his studies of “the benefits and drawbacks of multicultural experiences,” as well as noting “Lu’s innovative scientific methods,” concluding: “Lu’s work has advanced multiple areas of exploration, including industrial-organizational, social, cognitive, and educational psychology.”
Second, Lu has won the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 2023 Louise Kidder Early Career Award, which recognizes “social issues researchers who have made substantial contributions to the field early in their careers” (within 10 years of a graduate degree).
Third, Lu is the winner of the 2023 Future of Work Research Prize from the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work at the University of Zurich. The award announcement includes a short video of his research proposal for his winning project, “The Dark Side of Using Generative AI,” with collaborators Lesley Song (MIT), Dong Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Li Zhu and Jingjing Ma (both at Peking University), and notes: “Dr. Lu’s research, conducted through surveys and a longitudinal field experiment in both China and the US, will shed light on the ethical implications of generative AI and its impact on the future of work.”