APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology

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, , 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 , Dorothea Jameson, Leo Hurvich, Patrick Suppes
• 1973 Lee J. Cronbach, Brenda Milner, Benton J. Underwood
• 1974 Angus Campbell, , Richard F. Thompson
• 1975 Donald E. Broadbent, Robert R. Sears, David Shakow
• 1976 , , Theodore Newcomb, Roger N. Shepard
• 1977 Richard C. Atkinson, Russell L. De Valois, Edward E. Jones
• 1978 Julian Hochberg, , Robert B. Zajonc
• 1979 John W. Atkinson, Gordon H. Bower, John Garcia
• 1980 Albert Bandura, Alvin M. Liberman, Michael I. Posner
• 1981 , 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,
• 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 , Frederic M. Lord, Eleanor E. Maccoby, William J. McGuire, Julian B. Rotter, George Sperling
• 1989 Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, John Bowlby, , 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 , Paul Slovic, Larry R. Squire
• 1994 John R. Anderson, Jon Kaas,
• 1995 Rochel Gelman, , Michael L. Rutter
• 1996 , James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, Shelley E. Taylor
• 1997 Ellen S. Berscheid, , 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 , Douglas L. Medin, Robert S. Siegler
• 2006 , 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,
• 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, and Kent C. Berridge
• 2017 Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Gordon D. Logan, Robert J. Plomin
• 2018 , , 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