Visiting Scholar Kathleen Vohs Receives Anneliese Maier Research Award
On Wednesday, December 18, 2013, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation announced the eight winners of their 2014 Anneliese Maier Research Award, including Kathleen Vohs, a current RSF Visiting Scholar and Land O'Lakes Professor of Excellence in Marketing at the University of Minnesota. The award funds research collaboration between humanities and social science scholars in Germany and candidates from other countries, who are nominated by their colleagues at German universities and research institutions. Each award recipient is granted €250,000 to pursue their research interests.
Vohs was nominated by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg for her influential research on self-regulation and experimental consumer psychology. In her time at the Russell Sage Foundation, Vohs is working in collaboration with Roy Baumeister to further develop a model of self-control as a limited resource. The two scholars are also researching the self-sufficiency theory of money, or the idea that money is a source of independence for people that has both negative and positive effects on their behavior.
At the University of Heidelberg, Vohs will be involved in the priority fields of self-regulation and behavioral regulation, working, in particular, with junior research groups.
Click here to read a profile of her research at RSF on the self-sufficiency theory of money.