APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology
The APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems.
The following may be submitted electronically:
brief nomination statement (750 words)
nominee's current vita with list of publications
names and addresses of 10 scientists who are familiar with the nominee's work
list of three most significant and representative publications and include PDF links
list of up to 10 students/postdocs that the nominee has trained and where those individuals are now
For additional information, please contact Suzanne Wandersman.
2025
Philip C. Kendall
2024
Francis J. Keefe
2023
Michelene T. H. Chi
2022
Christopher G. Fairburn
2021
James H. Sidanius
2020
Steven D. Hollon
2019
James S. Jackson
2018
Kenneth A. Dodge
2017
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
2016
James W. Pennebaker
2015
Michael E. Lamb
2014
G. Terence Wilson
2013
J. Richard Hackman
2012
Kelly D. Brownell
2011
Alan E. Kazdin
2010
David M. Clark
2009
Nancy E. Adler
2008
John L. Holland
2007
Karl G. Jöreskog
Peter M. Bentler
2006
John P. Campbell
2005
Karen A. Matthews
2004
Edward Taub
2003
Stephen J. Ceci
Elizabeth F. Loftus
2002
Robert Rosenthal
2001
David T. Lykken
2000
David H. Barlow
1998/1999
Loren J. Chapman
Jean P. Chapman
1997
Harold Stevenson
1996
Ward Edwards
1995
Ann L. Brown
1994
John E. Hunter
Frank L. Schmidt
1993
Herschel W. Leibowitz
1992
Charles R. Schuster
1991
Joseph V. Brady
1990
Wallace E. Lambert
1989
Aaron T. Beck
1988
Leonard Berkowitz
1987
Robert Glaser
1986
Martin T. Orne
1985
John Money
1984
Gerald R. Patterson
1983
Donald E. Super
1982
Robert M. Gagné
1981
Anne Anastasi
1980
Edwin A. Fleishman
1979
Joseph Wolpe
1978
Alphonse Chapanis
1977
Starke R. Hathaway
1976
Fred S. Keller
1975
Nathan H. Azrin
1974
Gerald S. Lesser
Edward L. Palmer
1973
Conrad L. Kraft