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
Susan J. Goldin-Meadow,
Alison Gopnik,
Arie Kruglanski ==See also==