Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology.

Discusses the contributions made by H. W. Leibowitz, the 1993 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology presented by the American Psychological Association. Leibowitz is awarded for his contributions ranging from laboratory studies of oculomotor and sensory processes to sport psychology, from sensory psychophysics to the interpretation of satellite images, and from fundamental questions concerning visual guidance to problems of night driving. A biography of the recipient is provided. (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)     

Richard W. Robins: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Provides the biography of Richard W. Robins and announces that he has won the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for innovative and influential research that integrates the study of personality with social and developmental processes. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2010 award winners: Distinguished scientific contributions.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2010 winners are Jonathan D. Cohen, Susan T. Fiske, and Joseph E. LeDoux. The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The winner for 2010 is David M. Clark. The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. The 2010 winners are Stanley B. Floresco, Peter J. Gianaros, Mara Mather, Simona Ghetti, Larissa K. Samuelson, Benjamin L. Hankin, and Matthew K. Nock. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamics.

W. S. Taylor's ("Psychoanalysis revised or psychodynamics developed?" American Psychologist, 1962, 17, 784-788, see record 1963-05882-001) polemic may be assessed against the background provided by Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as conveniently reviewed by Gillispie (1962) in a recent issue of Science. The present author comments that Taylor fails to see that psychoanalysis is a relatively coherent system of theories rather than an accumulation of the various theories that Taylor says had been put forward by others, sometimes centuries earlier. A major part of his misapprehension is his overlooking the fact that psychoanalysis is primarily a method of research rather than the body of theories that happen, at the present time, to be based on following that method (for a recent discussion of psychoanalysis as a scientific method, see Ramzy, 1962). More important, however, he adopts an either-or attitude, "Psychoanalysis Revised or Psychodynamics Developed," that is quite unnecessary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the winners of the American Psychological Association's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions for 1996. The winners are Robert W. Goy, James L. McClelland and David E. Rumelhart, and Shelley E. Taylor. Their accomplishments are cited and bibliographies of each winner are provided. The winners since the establishment of the award are also listed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sensory Information Systems.

Introduces the section of the journal dedicated to sensory information systems. The presentations in this section are limited to two sensory input systems: vision and touch. In this section, Young and Sheena review and compare various eye-movement techniques. Monty describes a sophisticated measuring system that allows unobtrusive monitoring and automatic recording of eye movements. Vunderink and Sanders report on a wide-screen projection technique for presenting large stationary and moving stimuli. Two applications of laser technology are described by Polley, Apple, and Bizzell and Leibowitz and Hennessy. In the final article, Sherrick presents a review of vibrotactile stimulus systems and provides some of the details of instrumentation necessary for the study of tactile communication. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1956.

On September 2, 1956, the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were presented to Kenneth W. Spence, Carl R. Rogers, and Wolfgang K?hler. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2002 award winners: Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.

Presents a citation, biography, and selected paper of the 2002 recipient of APA's Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (Robert Rosenthal). The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

P. W. Bridgman Advocates Introspection.

Notes that in an article in the Scientific Monthly, P. W. Bridgman, Nobel Prize Winner and arch-physicist, advocates the use of introspection. Difficult problems, not yet solved, have been introduced by the new facts of relativity and the quantum theory. Scientists may have to get outside of the everyday concepts of time and space and learn to observe situations that cannot be repeated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific applications of psychology.

The American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2010 award was given to David M. Clark. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.

Presents the citations and biographies of the 2007 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology. Selected bibliographies and an article written by one of the recipients are also presented. The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2007 recipients are Karl G. J?reskog and Peter M. Bentler (This award was shared; this was not an award for collaboration). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John E. Hunter and Frank L. Schmidt.

The Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. In accordance with established custom, the award winner will be invited to present an address on some phase of his or her scientific work at the APA Convention. This year's (1994) winners, John E. Hunter and Frank L. Schmidt, who received the award for their collaboration, will each be presented with an engrossed citation of his contribution. The awardees' citations, biographies, and selected bibliographies are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ideals in action: the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs

This paper is a brief report of the symposium, "Improving the Evidence Base for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care", organized by the MASTER Anaesthesia Trial Study Group at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, Newcastle, N.S.W., on Tuesday, May 5, 1998.     

2002 Award winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the 2002 recipients of the APA Scientific Contributions Awards, who were recognized by the 2001 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2001 Committee on Scientific Awards. The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.

The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. Award winners from 1973-2005 are listed. This document includes the citation given to Karen A. Matthews for the 2005 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of Matthews accompany the citation. Also published here is the address entitled Psychological Perspectives on the Development of Coronary Heart Disease (see record 2005-14550-009), which was delivered by Matthews at the 113th annual APA Convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the 2003 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. A list of the members of the APA committee who selected the recipients for this year and a list of the previous recipients of this award from 1974 through 2003 are provided. The award recipients for 2003 are: Isabel Gauthier, Nancy Petry, Richard W. Robins, Daniel J. Simons, Steven J. Heine and Sandra L. Murray. The award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography of each of the award recipient's research are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2004 award winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citations, biographies, and selected papers of the 2004 recipients of the APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Sheldon Cohen, E. Mavis Hetherington, and Richard M. Shiffrin), the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (Edward Taub), and the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Edith Chen, Gregory E. Miller, Elena L. Grigorenko, Thomas G. O'Connor, Jenny R. Saffran, Eric Stice, and Klaus Zuberbühler). The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 2004 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health;. cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2002 Award winners: Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the winners for the 2002 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)