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
List of psychology awards
References