Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology

The APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, APA’s highest award, is given at the discretion of APA's president.

Customarily, it is presented at the opening session of the APA Annual Convention.

2026

Pamela Trotman Reid, PhD

2025

Oliva Espín, PhD

2024

Terrie Moffitt, PhD

2023

Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP

2022

William E. Cross, Jr., PhD

2021

Geoffrey M. Reed, PhD
Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP

2020

Melba J. T. Vasquez, PhD, ABPP

2019

Derald Wing Sue, PhD

2018

Margaret Beale Spencer, PhD

2017

Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD

2016

Eduardo Salas, PhD

2015

Jonathan S. Kellerman, PhD

2014

Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

2013

Antoinette M. Zeiss, PhD

2012

Kelly D. Brownell, PhD
Rena R. Wing, PhD

2011

Florence L. Denmark, PhD

2010

Shelley E. Taylor, PhD

2009

Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, JD, MPH
Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

2008

Edward F. Zigler, PhD

2007

Daniel Kahneman, PhD

2006

E. Mavis Hetherington, PhD

2005

Judith Rodin, PhD

2004

Albert Bandura, PhD

2003

George A. Miller, PhD

2002

Richard C. Atkinson, PhD

2001

Janet Taylor Spence, PhD

2000

Raymond D. Fowler, PhD

1997

Carolyn Payton, EdD

1996

Paul Meehl, PhD

1994

Kenneth B. Clark, PhD
Anne Anastasi, PhD

1993

Herb Simon, PhD
Roger Sperry, PhD

1991

Neal E. Miller, PhD

1990

B.F. Skinner, PhD