APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology

The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology is an award of the American Psychological Association that "honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology."

Recipients

Source: APA

20th century

1956 Wolfgang Köhler, Carl R. Rogers, Kenneth W. Spence
1957 Carl I. Hovland, Curt P. Richter, Edward C. Tolman
1958 Frank A. Beach, Paul E. Meehl, B. F. Skinner
1959 Leon Festinger, Donald B. Lindsley, Neal E. Miller
1960 Harry F. Harlow, Charles E. Osgood, S. Smith Stevens
1961 James J. Gibson, Donald O. Hebb, Henry A. Murray
1962 Jerome S. Bruner, William K. Estes, Harry Helson
1963 Roger G. Barker, George A. Miller, Carl Pfaffmann
1964 Gordon W. Allport, Wendell R. Garner, J. P. Guilford
1965 Floyd Allport, Fritz Heider, Paul Thomas Young
1966 Nancy Bayley, Clarence H. Graham, Richard L. Solomon
1967 Solomon E. Asch, Ernest R. Hilgard, James Olds
1968 James E. Birren, Eleanor J. Gibson, Muzafer Sherif
1969 Jean Piaget, Stanley Schachter, Herbert A. Simon
1970 Donald T. Campbell, David Krech, R. Duncan Luce
1971 Roger William Brown, Harold H. Kelley, Roger Wolcott Sperry
1972 Edwin E. Ghiselli, Dorothea Jameson, Leo Hurvich, Patrick Suppes
1973 Lee J. Cronbach, Brenda Milner, Benton J. Underwood
1974 Angus Campbell, Lorrin A. Riggs, Richard F. Thompson
1975 Donald E. Broadbent, Robert R. Sears, David Shakow
1976 Beatrice C. Lacey, John I. Lacey, Theodore Newcomb, Roger N. Shepard
1977 Richard C. Atkinson, Russell L. De Valois, Edward E. Jones
1978 Julian Hochberg, Philip Teitelbaum, Robert B. Zajonc
1979 John W. Atkinson, Gordon H. Bower, John Garcia
1980 Albert Bandura, Alvin M. Liberman, Michael I. Posner
1981 David M. Green, Irving L. Janis, James L. McGaugh
1982 Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Walter Mischel, Mark R. Rosenzweig
1983 John W. Thibaut, Endel Tulving, Hans Wallach
1984 Noam Chomsky, John H. Flavell, Floyd Ratliff
1985 Clyde Coombs, Mortimer Mishkin, Allen Newell
1986 Robert P. Abelson, Gunnar Johansson, Robert A. Rescorla
1987 Morton Deutsch, Jerome Kagan, David C. McClelland, Saul Sternberg, Niko Tinbergen, Ledyard R. Tucker
1988 Irving T. Diamond, Frederic M. Lord, Eleanor E. Maccoby, William J. McGuire, Julian B. Rotter, George Sperling
1989 Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, John Bowlby, J. Douglas Carroll, Richard S. Lazarus
1990 Frances K. Graham, John A. Swets, Anne Treisman
1991 Paul Ekman, Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Richard E. Nisbett
1992 Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima, Walter Kintsch, K. Warner Schaie
1993 Peter J. Lang, Paul Slovic, Larry R. Squire
1994 John R. Anderson, Jon Kaas, Neil Schneiderman
1995 Rochel Gelman, William A. Mason, Michael L. Rutter
1996 Robert W. Goy, James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, Shelley E. Taylor
1997 Ellen S. Berscheid, Edward Smith, Robert H. Wurtz
1998/1999 Elliot Aronson, William T. Greenough, Allan R. Wagner
2000 Richard J. Davidson, E. Tory Higgins, Elizabeth S. Spelke

21st century

2001 Alan D. Baddeley, Irving I. Gottesman, Michael M. Merzenich
2002 John T. Cacioppo, David E. Meyer, William T. Newsome
2003 Lila R. Gleitman, Bruce S. McEwen, Claude M. Steele
2004 Sheldon Cohen, E. Mavis Hetherington, Richard M. Shiffrin
2005 Charles G. Gross, Douglas L. Medin, Robert S. Siegler
2006 Michael Davis, Marcia K. Johnson, Martin E. P. Seligman
2007 Marilynn B. Brewer, Jean M. Mandler, Paul Rozin
2008 Michael S. Gazzaniga, Janellen Huttenlocher, Hazel Rose Markus
2009 Susan E. Carey, Alice H. Eagly, Steven F. Maier
2010 Jonathan D. Cohen, Susan T. Fiske, Joseph E. LeDoux
2011 Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins, Carol S. Dweck, Daniel M. Wegner
2012 Edward F. Diener, Michael Meaney, Daniel L. Schacter
2013 Ian H. Gotlib, Robert M. Sapolsky, Linda B. Smith
2014 Richard N. Aslin, John A. Bargh, Carol A. Barnes
2015 Stanislas Dehaene, Edna B. Foa, Michael Tomasello
2016 Dedre Gentner, Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, Terry E. Robinson and Kent C. Berridge
2017 Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Gordon D. Logan, Robert J. Plomin
2018 Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier, Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Patricia K. Kuhl
2019 Linda M. Bartoshuk, Dante Cicchetti, David A. Kenny
2020 Stephen P. Hinshaw, Elissa L. Newport, Lynn Nadel and John O’Keefe
2021 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Megan R. Gunnar, Henry L. Roediger
2022 BJ Casey, Susan A. Gelman, Shinobu Kitayama
2023 Michael Fanselow, Vonnie McLoyd, Jennifer Richeson
2024 Jacquelynne Eccles, Lynn Hasher, Shinobu Kitayama, Henry Wellman, Rose Zacks
2025 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Randall W. Engle, Arie Kruglanski

References

APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology

Recipients

20th century

21st century

See also

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