The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology is an award of 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 ...

that "honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology."

Recipients

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APA

20th Century

* 1956

Wolfgang Köhler Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. During the Nazi regime in Germany, he prote ...

, Carl R. Rogers, Kenneth W. Spence * 1957 Carl I. Hovland, Curt P. Richter,

Edward C. Tolman Edward Chace Tolman (April 14, 1886 – November 19, 1959) was an American psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Through Tolman's theories and works, he founded what is now a branch of psychology know ...

* 1958 Frank A. Beach, Paul E. Meehl,

B. F. Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and Social philosophy, social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his ret ...

* 1959

Leon Festinger Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. The rejection of the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology ...

, Donald B. Lindsley, Neal E. Miller * 1960 Harry F. Harlow, Charles E. Osgood, S. Smith Stevens * 1961

James J. Gibson James Jerome Gibson (; January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system ...

Donald O. Hebb Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as l ...

Henry A. Murray Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and under ...

* 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 Joy Paul Guilford (March 7, 1897 – November 26, 1987) was an American psychologist best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the distinction between convergent and divergent production. Developing the views ...

* 1965 Floyd Allport,

Fritz Heider Fritz Heider (19 February 1896 – 2 January 1988) was an Austrian psychologist whose work was related to the Gestalt school. In 1958 he published ''The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations'', which expanded upon his creations of balance theory ...

, 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 Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her firs ...

Muzafer Sherif Muzafer Sherif (born Muzaffer Şerif Başoğlu; July 29, 1906 – October 16, 1988) was a Turkish-American social psychologist. He helped develop social judgment theory and realistic conflict theory. Sherif was a founder of modern social psych ...

* 1969

Jean Piaget Jean William Fritz Piaget (, , ; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemolo ...

, Stanley Schachter,

Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...

* 1970 Donald T. Campbell, David Krech, R. Duncan Luce * 1971 Roger William Brown, Harold H. Kelley,

Roger Wolcott Sperry Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize ...

* 1972 Edwin E. Ghiselli,

Dorothea Jameson Dorothea Jameson (November 16, 1920 – April 12, 1998) was an American cognitive psychologist who greatly contributed to the field of color and vision. Biography Jameson was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She went to Wellesley College. She elec ...

Leo Hurvich Leo Maurice Hurvich (September 11, 1910 – April 25, 2009) was an American psychologist who conducted research into human color vision. He was married to fellow cognitive psychologist Dorothea Jameson. The pair collaborated on much of their work, i ...

Patrick Suppes Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology ...

* 1973 Lee J. Cronbach,

Brenda Milner Brenda Milner (née Langford; July 15, 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Departme ...

, Benton J. Underwood * 1974 Angus Campbell, Lorrin A. Riggs, Richard F. Thompson * 1975 Donald E. Broadbent, Robert R. Sears,

David Shakow David Shakow (1901–1981) was an American psychologist. He is perhaps best known for his development of the Scientist-Practitioner Model (or ''Boulder Model'') of graduate training for clinical psychologists, adopted by the American Psychologica ...

* 1976 Beatrice C. Lacey, John I. Lacey,

Theodore Newcomb Theodore Mead Newcomb (July 24, 1903 – December 28, 1984) was an American social psychologist, professor and author. Newcomb led the Bennington College Study, which looked at the influence of the college experience on social and political belie ...

, Roger N. Shepard * 1977 Richard C. Atkinson, Russell L. De Valois,

Edward E. Jones :For the Louisiana civil rights pioneer, see ''E. Edward Jones''. Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones (August 11, 1926 – July 30, 1993) was an influential American social psychologist, he is known as father of Ingratiation due to his major works in ...

* 1978

Julian Hochberg Julian Edward Hochberg (July 10, 1923 – May 22, 2022) was an American psychology researcher and the Centennial Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Columbia University. Much of Hochberg's research involved visual perception. Before coming to Colum ...

, Philip Teitelbaum, Robert B. Zajonc * 1979 John W. Atkinson, Gordon H. Bower, John Garcia * 1980

Albert Bandura Albert Bandura (; December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor in Psychology at Stanford University. Bandura was responsible for contributions to the field of education and to ...

Alvin M. Liberman Alvin Meyer Liberman (; May 10, 1917 – January 13, 2000) was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception. Biography Liberman rec ...

, Michael I. Posner * 1981 David M. Green, Irving L. Janis, James L. McGaugh * 1982 Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky,

Walter Mischel Walter Mischel (; February 22, 1930 – September 12, 2018) was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department ...

, Mark R. Rosenzweig * 1983 John W. Thibaut,

Endel Tulving Endel Tulving (born May 26, 1927) is an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving is a professor emerit ...

, Hans Wallach * 1984

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky i ...

, John H. Flavell,

Floyd Ratliff Floyd may refer to: As a name * Floyd (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Floyd (surname), a list of people and fictional characters Places in the United States * Floyd, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Floyd, Iowa ...

* 1985 Clyde Coombs,

Mortimer Mishkin Mortimer Mishkin (December 13, 1926 – October 2, 2021) was an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 National Medal of Science awarded in Behavior and Social Science. Life and career Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in December 1926 ...

, Allen Newell * 1986 Robert P. Abelson, Gunnar Johansson, Robert A. Rescorla * 1987

Morton Deutsch Morton Deutsch (February 4, 1920 – March 13, 2017) was an American social psychologist and researcher in conflict resolution. Deutsch was one of the founding fathers of the field of conflict resolution. A '' Review of General Psychology'' surve ...

Jerome Kagan Jerome Kagan (February 25, 1929 – May 10, 2021) was an American psychologist, who was the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, as well as, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was ...

David C. McClelland David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for th ...

, Saul Sternberg,

Niko Tinbergen Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (; ; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the or ...

, Ledyard R. Tucker * 1988 Irving T. Diamond, Frederic M. Lord, Eleanor E. Maccoby, William J. McGuire, Julian B. Rotter,

George Sperling George Sperling (born 1934) is an American cognitive psychologist, researcher, and educator. Sperling documented the existence of iconic memory (one of the sensory memory subtypes). Through several experiments, he showed support for his hypothe ...

* 1989 Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, John Bowlby, J. Douglas Carroll, Richard S. Lazarus * 1990 Frances K. Graham, John A. Swets,

Anne Treisman Anne Marie Treisman (née Taylor; 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2018) was an English psychologist who specialised in cognitive psychology. Treisman researched visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas ...

* 1991

Paul Ekman Paul Ekman (born February 15, 1934) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco who is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of ...

, Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Richard E. Nisbett * 1992 Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima,

Walter Kintsch Walter Kintsch (born 1932) is an American Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States). He is renowned for his groundbreaking theories in cognitive psychology, especially in relation to text comprehens ...

, K. Warner Schaie * 1993 Peter J. Lang,

Paul Slovic Paul Slovic (born 1938 in Chicago) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president oDecision Research Decision Research is a collection of scientists from all over the nation and in other countries that study decision- ...

, Larry R. Squire * 1994 John R. Anderson,

Jon Kaas Jon Kaas is a professor at Vanderbilt University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has made discoveries about the organization of the mammalian brain, including the description of many areas of the cerebral cortex ...

, 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 Ellen S. Berscheid (born 1936) is an American social psychologist who is currently a Regents professor at the University of Minnesota, where she earlier had earned her PhD in 1965. Berscheid conducted research on interpersonal relationships, emo ...

Edward Smith Ed, Eddie, Edgar, Edward, Edwin, and similar, surnamed Smith, may refer to: Military * Edward H. Smith (sailor) (1889–1961), United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer and Arctic explorer * Edward Smith (VC) (1898–1940), English recipien ...

, Robert H. Wurtz * 1998/1999

Elliot Aronson Elliot Aronson (born January 9, 1932) is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance, and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique which facilitates learning while reducing ...

, William T. Greenough,

Allan R. Wagner Allan R. Wagner (6 January 1934 - 28 September 2018) was an American experimental psychologist and learning theorist, whose work focused upon the basic determinants of associative learning and habituation. He co-authored the influential Rescorla� ...

* 2000 Richard J. Davidson,

E. Tory Higgins Edward Tory Higgins (born March 12, 1946) is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. Higgins' research areas include motivation and cognition, judgment and ...

, Elizabeth S. Spelke

21st Century

*2001 Alan D. Baddeley, Irving I. Gottesman, Michael M. Merzenich *2002

John T. Cacioppo John Terrence Cacioppo (June 12, 1951 – March 5, 2018) was the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He founded the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and was ...

, David E. Meyer, William T. Newsome *2003

Lila R. Gleitman Lila Ruth Gleitman (December 10, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She was an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholin ...

, Bruce S. McEwen, Claude M. Steele *2004

Sheldon Cohen Sheldon Cohen (born October 11, 1947) is the Robert E. Doherty University Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity and Disease. He is a member of the Depart ...

, E. Mavis Hetherington, Richard M. Shiffrin *2005 Charles G. Gross, Douglas L. Medin,

Robert S. Siegler Robert S. Siegler (born 12 May 1949) is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2005 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. He specializes in ...

*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 Hazel June Linda Rose Markus (born 9 March 1949) is a social psychologist and a pioneer in the field of cultural psychology. She is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in Stanford, California. She is also a ...

*2009 Susan E. Carey,

Alice H. Eagly Alice H. Eagly (born 1938) is the James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences Emerita and emerita professor of psychology at Northwestern University. She is also a fellow at the Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her primary res ...

, 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 Michael J. Meaney, CM, CQ, FRSC, (born 1951) is a professor at McGill University specializing in biological psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, who is primarily known for his research on stress, maternal care, and gene expression. His re ...

, Daniel L. Schacter *2013 Ian H. Gotlib, Robert M. Sapolsky, Linda B. Smith *2014

Richard N. Aslin Richard N. Aslin (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. Until December, 2016, Dr. Aslin was William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Vision sci ...

, John A. Bargh, Carol A. Barnes *2015 Stanislas Dehaene, Edna B. Foa,

Michael Tomasello Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist, as well as a linguist. He is professor of psychology at Duke University. Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he is c ...

*2016

Dedre Gentner Dedre Dariel Gentner (born 1944) is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist. She is the Alice Gabriel Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. She is a leading researcher in the study of analogical reasoning. Wor ...

, Terrie E. Moffitt and

Avshalom Caspi Avshalom Caspi (born May 5, 1960) is an Israeli-American psychologist and the Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, as well as Professor of Personality Developm ...

, 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 Lynn Nadel (born November 12, 1942) is an American psychologist who is the Regents' Professor of psychology at the University of Arizona. Nadel specializes in memory, and has investigated the role of the hippocampus in memory formation. Together ...

and John O’Keefe *2021

Lisa Feldman Barrett Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the f ...

, Megan R. Gunnar, Henry L. Roediger *2022 BJ Casey, Susan A. Gelman,

Shinobu Kitayama Shinobu Kitayama (born March 9, 1957) is a Japanese social psychologist and the Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is also the Social Psychology Area Chair and Director of the Culture & Cognition ...

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