Doctoral candidate Jorge Cuartas recently received the Early Career Outstanding Paper Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) for his research paper "Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children" published in Child Development. The Early Carer Outstanding Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or early career scientist, within seven years of Ph.D., who has published (or has in press) an outstanding paper in the previous year.

Furthermore, Jorge received the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Psychological Foundation (APF) to support his dissertation research on corporal punishment and child development in low- and- middle-income countries.