William James Book Award

1986 George Mandler: Mind and Body
1987 Howard E. Gardner: The Mind’s New Science
1988 Jerome Kagan: The Nature of the Child
1989 Vera John-Steiner: Notebooks of the Mind
1990 Robyn Dawes: Rational Behavior in an Uncertain World
1991 Irving Gottesman: Schizophrenia Genesis
1992 George A. Miller: The Science of Words
1993 Scott Plous: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
1994 Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct
1995 Michael Posner & Marcus E. Raichle: Images of Mind
1996 Earl Hunt: Will We Be Smart Enough?
1996 David C. Rubin: Memory in Oral Traditions
1997
1998 Daniel L. Schacter: Searching for Memory
1998 Jill G. Morawski: Practicing Feminism: Reconstructing Psychotherapy
1999 Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
1999 Stuart A. Vyse: Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
2000 Dean Keith Simonton: The Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
2000 Steven Ceci & Maggie Bruck: Crisis in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children’s Testimony
2001 Michael Tomasello: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
2002 Michael Gazzaniga: The New Cognitive Neurosciences (2nd ed.)
2003 Stephen Pinker: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
2004 Richard Nisbett: The Geography of Thought
2005 Dan P. McAdams: The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By
2005 Honorable Mention: Ravi Benbinashty & Ron Avi Astor: School Violence in Context: Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School, and Gender
2006: Gregory J. Feist: The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind