Past Public Interest Award Winners (1978-Present)

Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest

1978                  Kenneth B. Clark
1979                  Marie Johada*, Otto Klineberg
1980                  Isidor Chein*, Nicholas Hobbs
1981                  Herbert C. Kelman
1982                  Edward F. Zigler
1983                  James S. Jackson*, Stuart W. Cook
1984                  Patrick H. DeLeon*, Seymour B. Sarason
1985                  Gary B. Melton*, Jerome D. Frank
1986                  Stanley Sue*, John Janeway Conger
1987                  Michael J. Saks*, Urie Bronfenbrenner
1988                  Ellen Langer*, M. Brewster Smith
1989                  Emory L. Cowen*, William Bevan, Leonard Saxe
1990                  Baruch Fischhoff*, David Lykken
1991                  Susan T. Fiske*, Evelyn Hooker
1992                  Hortensia Amaro*, Florence Denmark
1993                  Laura C. Leviton*, Patrick H. DeLeon
1994                  Robert Q. Pollard*, Durand F. Jacobs
1995                  David A. Riley*, Nancy Felipe Russo
1996                  Gregory M. Herek*, Alan I. Leshner
1997                  Maria P.P. Root*, James G. Kelly
1998/1999          Bonnie Strickland
2000                  Jeannette Ickovics*, Lillian Comas-Diaz
2001                  Edward Dunbar*, Martha Bernal
2002                  Brian Smedley*, Phyllis Katz and Melba Vasquez**
2003                  Claude Steele
2004                  Susan Limber, PhD*, Dante Cicchetti, PhD**
2005                  Daniel Dodgen, PhD*, Margaret Beale Spencer, PhD
2006                  Rose Clark, PhD , McCay Vernon, PhD
2007                  Gary Harper, PhD*, Larke Huang, PhD
2008                  Rebecca Campbell, PhD *, Phillip Zimbardo, PhD
2009                  Keith Humphrey, PhD *, Beverly Greene, PhD

*Indicates Early Career Award.
**The Senior Career Award was shared. This was not an award for collaboration.

Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy

1988                  Sandra Scarr
1989                  Charles A. Kiesler
1990                  John Monahan
1991                  Shari Siedman Diamond
1992                  Linda Teplin, Gail Wyatt
1993                  Diana Slaughter-Defoe
1994                  Thomas Grisso
1995                  Marnie E. Rice
1996                  Stanley Sue
1997                  Ruby Takanishi
1998/1999          Leonard Bickman
2000                  Mary Koss
2001                  Susan Cochran
2002                  Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
2003                  Louise Fitzgerald
2004                  Thomas J. Coates, PhD
2005                  Gail Goodman, PhD
2006                  Mark Cunniungham, PhD
2007                  Vickie Mays, PhD
2008                  Janet Helms, PhD
2009                  Charlotte Patterson, PhD and Laurence Steinberg, PhD

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