Lorrin Andrews Riggs (1912-2008).

Lorrin Andrews Riggs was a leading scholar in the field of visual psychophysics and physiology. His research brought new understanding to the functioning of the visual system, and his numerous students have continued to make notable contributions to visual science. Although he received an extraordinary number of professional honors during his lifetime, he remained a humble scientist and congenial colleague and friend. Lorrin Riggs died on April 10, 2008, in Hanover. He was 95. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Richard F. Thompson.

Presents the biography and scientific publications of Richard F. Thompson, a recipient of the award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in 1974. For his imaginative and extensive contributions to our understanding of the neural bases of behavior. His careful and systematic investigations of the neurophysiology of behavioral plasticity have increased our knowledge of the nature of learning and have served as models of scientific inquiry. Through his writings he has clarified our thinking about critical conceptual issues concerning brain and behavior. As a teacher and colleague he has gently stimulated, encouraged, and guided the development of research and theory concerning the neurobiological bases of behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1974.

Announces the awards recipients for the Distinguished Scientific Contribution for 1974 to Angus Campbell, Lorrin A Riggs, and Richard F. Thompson along with the names of the winners from the preceding years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Eleanor Jack Gibson: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Acknowledges the presentation of the American Psychological Association (APA) 1968 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award to Eleanor Jack Gibson. The citation reads: "For distinguished studies of perceptual learning and perceptual development. Following participation in and guidance of studies which have significantly advanced our understanding of depth perception in infants and young organisms, she has turned to the systematic analysis of reading. Her analysis and experimental study of the discriminatory and decoding aspects, as well as semantic and syntactical features of reading have indicated what must be learned. Her analysis of the learning process itself has delineated how reading is acquired. Always the experimentalist, she has elucidated the steps that must precede application in formal instruction. By so doing, she has imaginatively shown how to bridge the gap from laboratory to classroom." A biography and a listing of the awardee's scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1974.

Announces the Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1974 presented to Noble H. Kelley. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Angus Campbell.

Presents the biography and scientific contributions for Angus Campbell, a recipient for the award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in 1974. For his leadership in bringing social psychology to bear upon the patterning of perceptions, attitudes, and complex behaviors observed in historically significant populations, through the development of the sample survey. His research interests have ranged widely, from seminal studies of political behavior, through race relations, to more recent inquiries concerning the perceived quality of life. His wisdom and far-sightedness as an administrator have nurtured a large research institution of remarkable disciplinary breadth, and he commands the deep respect and affection of his diversely trained colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1972.

The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards are presented each year by the American Psychological Association at the Annual Convention. The award winners for 1972 are Edwin E. Ghiselli, Dorothea Jameson, Leo Hurvich, and Pattrick Suppes. Each award winner is recognized with a check for $1,000 and an engrossed citation of his or her formal contributions to the development of scientific psychology. Further, these psychologists have agreed, in accordance with established custom, to present addresses on some phase of their scientific work at the 1973 Convention. The award citations, personal biographies, and professional writings of the award winners are presented. Additionally, a listing of award recipients from preceding years is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1976.

The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards are presented each year by the American Psychological Association at the Annual Convention. The award winners for 1976 are Beatrice C. Lacey, John I. Lacey, Theodore M. Newcomb, and Roger N. Shepard. The personal biographies and the professional writings of the award winners are presented, along with a listing of award recipients from preceding years. Each award winner is recognized with a check for $1,000 and an engrossed citation of his or her formal contributions to the development of scientific psychology. These psychologists have agreed, in accordance with established custom, to present addresses on some phase of their scientific work at the 1977 Convention. The presentation of awards was made by Richard F. Thompson, Chair of the Committee on Scientific Awards. Other members of the Committee are Dorothea Hurvich, Walter Mischel, Lorrin A. Riggs, Janet T. Spence, and Elaine Walster. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Dorothea Jameson and Leo Hurvich: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1972 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by Dorothea Jameson and Leo Hurvich. The award citation reads: "The research team of Dorothea Jameson and Leo Hurvich has significantly advanced our knowledge of color vision through a broadly based program of conceptually sophisticated and rigorously conducted experiments. Their research has provided basic data which are essential to theory and at the same time provide a quantitative framework for physiological investigations. Their very unusual scholarship, technical skill, untiring motivation, and contagious enthusiasm for scientific discovery have set new standards of excellence against which future experimenters and theorists will be judged." Biographies and listings of the awardees' scientific writings are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Noble H. Kelley.

Presents the biography and scientific publications for Noble H. Kelley, the recipient of the 1974 Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution. For more than twenty years Secretary-Treasurer, Executive Officer, and Trustee of the American Board of Professional Psychology, he had come to personify the high standards of that respected institution, having for so long helped to articulate and implement its pursuit of excellence. While following a productive academic career that saw him head the departments and direct the psychological services at two universities, he gave his selfless devotion to the cause of identifying and enhancing competence in the professional application of psychology to human problems. Always ready to serve his profession, he devoted his time and his energies and gave his wise and experienced counsel to his colleagues and their organizations. His professional life spans a time which saw the maturing of the application of psychology as a professional endeavor, and to this development Noble H. Kelley has indeed made a distinguished contribution. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1978: Julian Hochberg.

Julian Hochberg was presented a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for his insightful recognition that the central problem of human perception is to explain how perception is organized, and for highly significant theoretical contributions toward greater understanding of this central problem. Ranging from studies of the Ganzfeld to the cinema, he has ingeniously brought a wide variety of data to bear on his theories of perceptual organization, His convincing demonstrations of how the observer imposes his own organization on the sequence of visual information arriving at the retina has greatly enhanced our understanding of one of the oldest problems in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Brenda Milner: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1973.

Recognizes receipt of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for 1973 by Brenda Milner, known for her contributions to the psychological study of the human brain. Dr. Miller's biography and accomplishments are presented, along with the award citation and a listing of the recipient's scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Patrick Suppes: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1972 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by Patrick Suppes. The award citation reads: "For his wide-ranging contributions to theory, experiment, and application in psychology. His theories, which combine logical precision, mathematical power, and testability, include fundamental probabilistic analyses of learning, algebraic studies of utility, geometric representations of perceptual processes, and penetrating work on the logic of measurement. His experiments concern utility and game situations, discrete and continuous learning, and the attainment of logical, arithmetic, and linguistic concepts. His applications to computer-assisted instruction grow out of explicit theory and pertinent experiments and exploit the nationwide computer facility he has developed. Outside of psychology, he is widely respected for his work in logic and the philosophy of science, especially physics." A biography and a listing of the recipient's scientific writings are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edward E. Jones: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977.

Edward E. Jones received a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for his contributions to basic knowledge of the processes by which the individual understands the social environment and acts upon it. His insightful and careful experiments reveal how individuals, as actors, govern their social behavior in anticipation of the impressions they make and the evaluative reactions they elicit. Other ingenious studies analyze the processes by which individuals, as observers, perceive the causes for other persons' behavior and attempt to ascertain their underlying dispositions. His theoretical views of the attribution process have given new directions to social perception research-directions that have proven to be extremely influential and productive. His concepts and empirical results regarding social perception, self-presentation, and personal attraction constitute a solid and broad foundation for the psychological analysis of social interaction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edward L. Palmer.

Presents the biography and list of his scientific publications for the 1974 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution for Applications in Psychology Award, Edward L. Palmer. Dr. Palmer together with Dr. Lesser both recieved the award for the sophisticated and imaginative use of psychological research to help develop a new kind of human significance for television. In their work on "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company," Drs. Lesser and Palmer established a usefulness for the substance and methods of psychology that must be gratifying to all psychologists. Dr. Lesser chose the consultants who discussed ideas for the shows, chaired meetings of the consultants and production people, worked continuously and in all ways on the movement of ideas toward production. He contrived again and again to bring about the metamorphosis of psychological data into a production idea. Dr. Palmer used observation, tests, and questioning to explore many aspects of the format, substance, and techniques of the shows, giving continuous research guidance to production. He has given formative research a central place in the Children's Television Workshop. Together, Drs. Palmer and Lesser have been privileged, as few men have, to feel an impact of their work on the education of a generation of American children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Benton J. Underwood: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1973.

Recognizes receipt of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for 1973 by Benton J. Underwood, known for his contributions to the experimental and theoretical analysis of verbal learning and memory. Dr. Underwood's biography and accomplishments are presented, along with the award citation and a listing of the recipient's scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gerald S. Lesser.

Presents the biography and list of his scientific publications for the 1974 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution for Applications in Psychology Award, Gerald S. Lesser. Dr. Lesser together with Dr. Palmer both recieved the award for the sophisticated and imaginative use of psychological research to help develop a new kind of human significance for television. In their work on "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company," Drs. Lesser and Palmer established a usefulness for the substance and methods of psychology that must be gratifying to all psychologists. Dr. Lesser chose the consultants who discussed ideas for the shows, chaired meetings of the consultants and production people, worked continuously and in all ways on the movement of ideas toward production. He contrived again and again to bring about the metamorphosis of psychological data into a production idea. Dr. Palmer used observation, tests, and questioning to explore many aspects of the format, substance, and techniques of the shows, giving continuous research guidance to production. He has given formative research a central place in the Children's Television Workshop. Together, Drs. Palmer and Lesser have been privileged, as few men have, to feel an impact of their work on the education of a generation of American children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Beatrice C. Lacey and John I. Lacey: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1976 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by Beatrice C. Lacey and John I. Lacey. The award citation reads: "For conceptions of autonomic nervous system activity that have had an explosive impact on research in psychophysiology. In wide-ranging, eloquent, and scholarly papers, they have described complicated interactions among behavioral, autonomic, and central systems. Arguing the inadequacy of traditional views of a unitary activational system, they have described a system with central feedback and dissociable subsystems. With superb technology and meticulous experiments, they have demonstrated that complex patterns of autonomic response are measurable, characteristic of individuals, stable across years, and predictive of individual-environment transactions. Few areas of psychology remain unaffected by the implications of their work." Biographies and listings of the awardees' scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1973.

The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution are presented by the American Psychological Association at the annual convention. The awardees for this year are: Lee J. Cronbach, Conrad Kraft, Brenda Milner, and Benton J. Underwood. They were each presented with an award citation of his/her formal contributions to the development of scientific psychology and a check for one thousand dollars. These psychologists have agreed, in accordance with established custom, to present addresses on some phase of their scientific work at the 1974 Convention. The presentation of awards was made by R. Duncan Luce, Chair of the Committee on Scientific Awards. Other members of the Committee are Herschel Leibowitz, Brendan Maher, James Olds, Harold H. Kelley, and James J. Jenkins. The awardees for the preceding years since the establishment of the custom are also listed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lee J. Cronbach: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1973.

Recognizes receipt of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for 1973 by Lee J. Cronbach, known for his contributions to psychometric theory and application. Dr. Cronbach's biography and accomplishments are presented, along with the award citation and a listing of the recipient's scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)