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APA Presidential Addresses
This is a list of the addresses given
by the various presidents of the American Psychological Association. Some
of the addresses can be read directly; they have highlighted titles that
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the addresses that can be read are located on web page Classics
in the History of Psychology provided courtesy of York University in
Toronto.
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be found at the Directory
of Annual Meetings of the American Psychological Association 1892-2006.
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1890 1900
1910 1920 1930
1940 1950 1960
1970 1980 1990
2000
1892 |
G. Stanley Hall - History and Prospects of Experimental
Psychology in American. Apparently Not Published. The following Appears
as an abstract in the separately Published Proceedings of the first three
meetings of the APA: "This Paper consisted of an abstract of an extensive
history of Psychology in this country beginning with Jonathan Edwards and
coming up to the present time. The history is intended to include an account
of all the important investigations and in anticipation of the final paper
any more detailed account is omitted." |
1893 |
George Trumbull Ladd - Address of the
President. Psychological Review,
1894, 1, 1-21. |
* 1894 |
William James - The Knowing of Things
Together. Psychological Review,
2, 105-124 |
* 1895 |
J. Mckeen Cattell - Address of the
President. Psychological
Review, 1896, 3, 134-148. |
1896 |
G.S. Fullerton - The Knower in Psychology.
Psychological Review, 1897, 4,
1-26. |
1897 |
J.M. Baldwin - On Selective Thinking.
Psychological Review, 1898, 5,
1-24. |
1898 |
Hugo Munsterberg - Psychology
and History. Psychological
Review, 1899, 5, 1-24 |
*1899 |
John Dewey - Psychology and Social
Practice. Psychological Review,
1900, 7, 105-124 |
1900 |
Joseph Jastrow - Currents and Undercurrents
in Psychology. Psychological
Review, 1901, 8, 1-26 |
1901 |
Josiah Royce - Recent
Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings. Psychological
Review, 1902, 9, 105-133. |
1902 |
E.C. Sanford - Psychology and Physics.
Psychological Review, 1903, 10,
105-119. |
1903 |
William L. Bryan - Theory and Practice.
Psychological Review, 1904, 11,
71-82. |
1904 |
William James - The Experience of Activity.
Psychological Review, 1905, 12,
1-17. |
1905 |
Mary W. Calkins - A
Reconciliation of Structural and Functional Psychology. Psychological
Review, 1906, 13, 61-81. |
*1906 |
James R. Angell - The
Province of Functional Psychology. Psychological Review, 1907,
14, 61-91. |
1907 |
Henry R. Marshall - The Methods of
The Naturalist and Psychologist. Psychological Review, 1908, 15,
1-24. |
1908 |
George M. Stratton - Toward the Correction
of Some Rival Methods in Psychology. Psychological Review, 1909,
16, 67-84. |
1909 |
Charles H. Judd - Evolution and Consciousness.
Psychological Review, 1910, 17,
77-97 |
1910 |
Walter B. Pillsbury - The Place of
Movement in Consciousness. Psychological Review, 1911, 18,
83-99. |
1911 |
Carl E. Seashore - The Measure of A
Singer. Science, Feb. 9, 1912, 35, 201-212. |
*1912 |
Edward L. Thorndike - Ideo-Motor Action.
Psychological Review, 1913, 20,
91-106. |
1913 |
Howard C. Warren - The Mental and the
Physical. Psychological Review,
1914, 21, 79-100 |
*1914 |
R.S. Woodworth - A Revision of Imageless
Thought. Psychological Review,
1915, 22, 1-27.; |
*1915 |
John B. Watson - The Place of the Conditioned-Reflex
in Psychology. Psychological
Review, 1916, 23, 89-116. |
1916 |
Raymond Dodge - The Laws of Relative
Fatigue. Psychological Review,
1917, 24, 89-113. |
*1917 |
Robert M. Yerkes - Psychology in Relation
to the War. Psychological
Review, 1918, 25, 85-115. |
1918 |
J.W. Baird - No presidential address
was given. Because of the War this was an abbreviated meeting. |
1919 |
Walter Dill Scott - Changes in Some
of our Conceptions and Practices of Personnel. Psychological Review,
1920, 27, 81-94. |
1920 |
S.I. Franz - Cerebral-Mental
Relations. Psychological Review,
1921, 28, 81-95. |
1921 |
Margaret Floy Washburn - Introspection as an Objective Method. Psychological Review, 1921, 28,
81-95. |
1922 |
Knight Dunlap - The Foundation of Social
Psychology. Psychological
Review, 1923, 30, 81-102. |
*1923 |
Lewis M. Terman - The Mental Test as
a Psychological Method. Psychological Review, 1924, 31,
93-117 |
1924 |
G. Stanley Hall - Died before giving
address--W.H. Burnham delivered a tribute--The Man G. Stanley Hall. Psychological
Review, 1925, 32, 89-102 |
1925 |
Madison Bentley - The Major Categories
of Psychology. Psychological
Review, 1926, 33, 71-105 |
1926 |
Harvey Carr - The Interpretation of
the Animal Mind. Psychological
Review, 1927, 34, 87-106. |
1927 |
H.L. Hollingworth - Sensuous Determinants
of Psychological Attitude. Psychological Review, 1928, 35,
93-117. |
*1928 |
Edwin G. Boring - The
Psychology of Controversy. Psychological Review, 1929, 36,
97-121. |
*1929 |
Karl S. Lashley - Basic
Neural Mechanisms in Behavior. Psychological Review, 1930, 37,
1-24. |
1930 |
Herbert S. Langfeld - A Response Interpretation
of Consciousness. Psychological
Review, 1931, 38, 87-108. |
1931 |
Walter S. Hunter--The Psychological
Study of Behavior. Psychological
Review, 1932, 39, 1-24. |
1932 |
Walter R. Miles - Age and Human Ability.
Psychological Review, 1933, 40,
99-123. |
*1933 |
L.L. Thurstone - The Vectors of Mind.
Psychological Review, 1934, 41,
1-32. |
1934 |
Joseph Peterson - Aspects of Learning.
Psychological Review, 1935, 42,
1-27. |
1935 |
Albert T. Poffenberger - Psychology
and Life. Psychological Review,
1936, 43, 9-31. |
*1936 |
Clark L. Hull - Mind, Mechanism, and
Adaptive Behavior. Psychological
Review, 1937, 44, 1-32. |
*1937 |
Edward C. Tolman - The Determiners
of Behavior at a Choice Point. Psychological Review, 1938, 45,
1-41 |
1938 |
John Frederick Dashiell - Some Rapprochements
in Contemporary Psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 1939, 36,
1-24. |
1939 |
Gordon W. Allport - The
Psychologist's Frame of Reference. Psychological Bulletin, 1940,
37, 1-28. |
1940 |
Leonard Carmichael - The Experimental
Embryology of Mind. Psychological
Bulletin, 1941, 38, 1-28. |
1941 |
Herbert Woodrow - The Problem of General
Quantitative Laws in Psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 1942, 39,
1-27. |
1942 |
Calvin P. Stone - Multiply, Vary, Let
the Strongest Live and the Weakest Die. Charles Darwin Psychological
Bulletin, 1944, 41, 1-29. (no speech). |
1943 |
John E. Anderson - Freedom and Constraint
or Potentiality and Environment. Psychological Bulletin, 1944, 41,
1-29 (no speech). |
1944 |
Gardner Murphy - The Freeing of Intelligence.
Psychological Bulletin, 1945,
42, 1-19. |
1945 |
Edwin R. Guthrie - Psychological
Facts and Psychological Theory. Psychological Bulletin, 1946,
43, 1-20. |
1946 |
Henry E. Garrett - A Developmental
Theory of Intelligence. American
Psychologist, 1946, 1, 372-378. |
*1947 |
Carl R. Rogers - Some
Observations on the Organization of Personality. American Psychologist,
1947, 2, 358-368. |
1948 |
Donald G. Marquis - Research Planning
at the Frontiers of Science American
Psychologist, 1948, 3, 430-438. |
1949 |
Ernest R. Hilgard - Human Motives and
the Concept of the Self. American
Psychologist, 1949, 4, 374-382. |
1950 |
J.P. Guilford - Creativity. American
Psychologist, 1950, 5, 444-454. |
1951 |
Robert R. Sears - A Theoretical Framework
for Personality and Social Behavior. American Psychologist, 1951,
6, 476-483. |
1952 |
John McVickers Hunt - Psychological
Services in the Tactics of Psychological Science. American Psychologist,
1952, 7, 608-622. |
1953 |
Laurence F. Shaffer - Of Whose Reality
I Cannot Doubt. American Psychologist, 1953, 8, 608-623. |
1954 |
O. Hobart Mowrer - The Psychologist
Looks at Language. American
Psychologist, 1954, 9, 660-694 |
1955 |
E. Lowell Kelly - Consistency of the
Adult Personality. American
Psychologist, 1955, 10, 659-681. |
1956 |
Theodore M. Newcomb - The Prediction
of Interpersonal Attraction. American Psychologist, 1956, 11,
575-586. |
*1957 |
Lee J. Cronbach - The
Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology. American Psychologist,
1957, 12, 671-684. |
*1958 |
Harry F. Harlow - The
Nature of Love. American
Psychologist, 1958, 13, 673-685. |
*1959 |
Wolfgang Kohler - Gestalt
Psychology Today. American
Psychologist, 1959, 14, 727-734. |
1960 |
D.O. Hebb - The American Revolution.
American Psychologist, 1960, 15,
735-745. |
*1961 |
Neal E. Miller - Analytical Studies
of Drive and Reward. American
Psychologist, 1961, 16, 739-754. |
1962 |
Paul E. Meehl - Schizotaxia, Schizotypy,
Schizophrenia. American
Psychologist, 1962, 17, 827-838. |
1963 |
Charles E. Osgood - On Understanding
and Creating Sentences. American
Psychologist, 1963, 18, 735-751. |
1964 |
Quinn McNemar - Lost: Our Intelligence?
Why? American Psychologist,
1964, 19, 871-882. |
*1965 |
Jerome S. Bruner - The Growth of Mind.
American Psychologist, 1965, 20,
1007-1017 |
1966 |
Nicholas Hobbs - Helping Disturbed
Children: Psychological and Ecological Strategies. American Psychologist,
1966, 21, 1105-1115. |
1967 |
Gardner Lindzey - Some Remarks Concerning
Incest, the Incest Taboo and Psychoanalytic Theory. American Psychologist,
1967, 22, 1051-1059. |
1968 |
Abraham H. Maslow - No written address. |
1969 |
George A. Miller - Psychology as a
Means of Promoting Human Welfare. American Psychologist, 1969, 24,
1063-1075 |
1970 |
George W. Albee - The Uncertain Future
of Clinical Psychology. American
Psychologist, 1970, 25, 1071-1080. |
1971 |
Kenneth B. Clark - The Pathos of Power:
A Psychological Perspective. American Psychologist, 1971, 26
1047-1057. |
1972 |
Anne Anastasi - The Cultivation of
Diversity. American
Psychologist, 1972, 27, 1091-1099. |
1973 |
Leona E. Tyler - Design for a Hopeful
Psychology. American
Psychologist, 1973, 28, 1021-1029. |
1974 |
Albert Bandura - Behavior Theory and
the Models of Man. American
Psychologist, 1943, 29, 859-869. |
1975 |
Donald T. Campbell - On the Conflicts
Between Biological and Social Evolution and Between Psychology and Moral
Tradition. American
Psychologist, 1975, 30, 1103-1126. |
1976 |
Wilbert J. McKeachie - Psychology in
America's Bicentennial Year. American Psychologist, 1976, 31,
819-833. |
1977 |
Theodore H. Blau - Torque and Schizophrenic
Vulnerability: As the World Turns. American Psychologist, 1977,
32, 997-1005. |
1978 |
M. Brewster Smith - Perspectives on
Selfhood. American Psychologist,
1978, 33, 1053-1063. |
1979 |
Nicholas A. Cummings - Turning
Bread Into Stones: Our Modern Antimiracle. American Psychologist,
1979, 34, 1119-1129. |
1980 |
Florence L. Denmark - Psyche:
From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the Boat. American Psychologist,
1980, 35, 1057-1065. |
1981 |
John J. Conger - Freedom and
Commitment: Families, Youth and Social Change. American Psychologist,
1981, 36, 1475-1484. |
1982 |
William Bevan - A Sermon of Sorts in
Three Parts. American
Psychologist, 1982, 37, 1303-1322. |
1983 |
Max Siegel - Crime and Violence in
America: The Victims. American
Psychologist, 1983, 38, 1267-1273. |
1984 |
Janet T. Spence - Achievement American
Style: The Rewards and Costs of Individualism. American Psychologist,
1985, 40, 1285-1295. |
1985 |
Robert Perloff - Self-Interest and
Personal Responsibility Redux. American Psychologist, 1987, 42,
3-11. |
1986 |
Logan Wright - The Type A Behavior
Pattern and Coronary Artery Disease: Quest for the Active Ingredients and
the Elusive Mechanism. American Psychologist, 1988, 43,
2-14. |
1987 |
Bonnie R. Strickland - Internal-External
Control Expectancies: From Contingency to Creativity. American
Psychologist, 1989, 44, 1-12. |
1988 |
Raymond D. Fowler - Psychology: The
Core Discipline. American
Psychologist, 1990, 45, 1-6. |
1989 |
Joseph D. Matarazzo - Psychological
Assessment Versus Psychological Testing. American Psychologist,
1990, 45, 999-1017. |
1990 |
Stanley R. Graham - What Does a Man
Want? American Psychologist,
1992, 47, 837-841. |
1991 |
Charles D. Spielberger - Type-A President Gives
Type-A Presidential Talk. APA Monitor, 1992, 23(10), 8. |
1992 |
Jack G. Wiggins - Would You Want Your Child to
Be a Psychologist? American
Psychologist, 1994, 49, 485-492. |
1993 |
Frank Farley - From The Heart. American Psychologist,
1996, 51, 772-776. |
1994 |
Ronald E. Fox - Charlatanism, Scientism,
and Psychology's Social Contract. American Psychologist, 1996, 51,
777-784. |
1995 |
Robert J. Resnick - A Brief History
of Practice—Expanded. American
Psychologist, 1997, 52, 463-468. |
1996 |
Dorothy W. Cantor - A Paradigm Shift: Moving Organized
Psychology Into the World. American Psychologist, 1997, 780-786. |
1997 |
Norman Abeles - President's Report (Annual Report).
American Psychologist, 1998, 53, 854-857. |
1998 |
Martin E.P. Seligman - The President's Address
(Annual Report). American
Psychologist, 1999, 54, 559-562. |
1999 |
Richard M. Suinn - The President's Address (Annual
Report). American Psychologist, 2000, 55, 807-810. |
2000 |
Patrick H. Deleon - Presidential Reflections:
Past and Future. American Psychologist, 2002, 57, 425-430. |
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2001 |
Norine G. Johnson - Building a Healthy World:
Breaking Down Barriers and Building Bridges. American Psychologist, 2002, 57,
502-504. |
2002 |
Philip G. Zimbardo - Psychology in the Public
Service. American Psychologist, 2002, 57, 431-433. |
2003 |
Robert J. Sternberg - Culture and Intelligence. American Psychologist, 2004, 59,
325-338. |
2004 |
Diane F. Halpern - Psychology at the Intersection of Work and Family: Recommendations for Employers, Working Families
and Policymakers. American
Psychologist, 2005, 60, 397-409. |
2005 |
Ronald F. Levant - Making Psychology a Household Name. American Psychologist, 2006, 61,
383-395. |
2006 |
Gerald P. Koocher - Twenty-first Century Ethical Challenges for Psychology. American Psychologist, 2007, 62,
375-384. |
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*--Hilgard, Ernest R. American
Psychology in Historical Perspective: Addresses of the Presidents of the
American Psychological Association. APA (Addresses reprinted in full
in the text.) |
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