The APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research (until 2003 known as the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge) is a scientific award presented by the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

"to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology." The 1997 award to John E. Exner raised a controversy, as it was seen as granting a professional endorsement to the

Rorschach test The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a pe ...

, seen by some as

pseudoscience Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or falsifiability, unfa ...

.. This overview of the controversy over Exner and the award states "This award could be understood as a formal endorsement of the Rorschach. One would not provide an award for distinguished contributions to knowledge to Exner if the Rorschach had not provided substantial or significant contributions to knowledge."

List of recipients

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American Psychological Association
*1979 Sol L. Garfield,

Leopold Bellak Leopold Bellak (1916–2000) was a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist who pioneered the Children's Apperception Test (CAT). He also collaborated on the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), on clinical psychological assessments, and pioneer ...

, Harry Levinson *1980 Leonard D. Eron *1981 Carl Eisdorfer *1982 Roy Schafer *1983

Neal E. Miller Neal Elgar Miller (August 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002) was an American experimental psychologist. Described as an energetic man with a variety of interests, including physics, biology and writing, Miller entered the field of psychology to pursue ...

*1984 Norman Frederiksen *1985

Albert Ellis Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certi ...

*1986

Edward Zigler Edward Frank Zigler (March 1, 1930 – February 7, 2019) was an American developmental psychologist and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. In addition to his academic research on child development, he was best known as ...

*1987 Mary D. S. Ainsworth, Hans H. Strupp *1988 Herman Feifel *1989

Allen E. Bergin Allen Eric Bergin (born in Spokane, Washington, August 4, 1934) is a clinical psychologist known for his research on psychotherapy outcomes and on integrating psychotherapy and religion. His 1980 article on theistic values was groundbreaking in ...

*1990 Manfred J. Meier *1991 W. Grant Dahlstrom, Joseph Matarazzo *1992

, Harry Levinson *1993

Paul E. Meehl Paul Everett Meehl (3 January 1920 – 14 February 2003) was an American clinical psychologist, Hathaway and Regents' Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and past president of the American Psychological Association. A ''Revie ...

*1994 John L. Holland *1995 Kenneth I. Howard, Lester B. Luborsky *1996 Paul Satz *1997 John E. Exner, Samuel M. Turner *1998/1999 Peter E. Nathan *2000 Simon H. Budman *2001 Marvin R. Goldfried *2002 John D. Krumboltz *2003

Theodore Millon Theodore Millon () (August 18, 1928 – January 29, 2014) was an American psychologist known for his work on personality disorders. He founded the ''Journal of Personality Disorders'' and was the inaugural president of the International Society fo ...

, Stanley Sue *2004 Robert J. Gatchel *2005 Gail S. Goodman *2006 Stephen M. Weiss *2007 Bruce E. Wampold *2008

Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner a ...

*2009 Luciano L'Abate *2010 Catherine E. Lord *2011 Ronald F. Levant *2012 Leslie S. Greenberg *2013 Richard M. Fox *2014 J. Thomas Grisso *2015 Leonard A. Jason *2016 ''No award'' *2017 Cameron J. Camp *2018 Gary W. Harper *2019 David C. Schwebel *2020 Nancy E. Betz {{Div col end

References

American psychology awards American Psychological Association Awards established in 1979

List of recipients

See also

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