In 1999, he was named as distinguished scientist-lecturer for the
American Psychological Association. In 2000 Petty received the award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Consumer Psychology from the
Society for Consumer Psychology. In 2000 he received the Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Social Psychology from the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2015 he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and in 2024 he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award from the American Psychological Association. Petty is a fellow in the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
American Psychological Association, the
Association for Psychological Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was most recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Petty served as editor of the SPSP journal,
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and as associate editor for the APA journal,
Emotion, and on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the
Personality and Social Psychology Review, the
Journal of Consumer Psychology, and
Media Psychology. In 2002 Petty served as president of the
Midwestern Psychological Association and in 2009 he served as president of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology. ==References==