Deserving of recognition in the 2002 Martin E. P. Seligman Award competition were the following three finalists:
Eli J. Finkel, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: Self Control and Accommodation in Close Relationships: An Interdependence Analysis
Richard E. Lucas, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
Dissertation: Pleasant Affect and Sociability: Towards a Comprehensive Model of Extroverted Feelings and Behavior
Eunkook M. Suh, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California at Irvine
Dissertation: Identity Consistency, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being
The three honorable mentions for the 2002 Martin E. P. Seligman Award were:
NanSook Park, Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
Dissertation: Life Satisfaction Among Children and Adolescents: Cross-cultural and Developmental Comparisons
Joel E. Milam, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Adaptation to a Life Threatening Diagnosis: Dispositional Optimism and Pessimism and Posttraumatic Growth Among Patients with HIV
Jennifer G. LaGuardia, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Dissertation: Variation in Self-Experience and Expression Across Close Relationships, Relations to Need Fulfillment, and the Impact on Psychological Vitality