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)     

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)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citations and biographies of the 2007 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Selected bibliographies and articles written by the recipients are also presented. 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 2007 recipients are Marilynn B. Brewer, Jean M. Mandler, and Paul Rozin. (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)     

Awards for distinguished scientific contributions.

This article presents citations, biographies, and selected papers of the 1998/1999 recipients of the American Psychological Association Scientific Contributions Awards that were recognized by the 1998 Board of Scientific Affairs and the Committee on Scientific Awards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for distinguished scientific contributions.

Announces the American Psychological Association 2010 Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, which 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 winners are: Jonathan D. Cohen, Susan T. Fiske, and Joseph E. LeDoux. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2006 Award Winners: Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the American Psychological Association 2006 Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Highlighted are the 2006 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Michael Davis, Marcia K. Johnson, and Martin E. P. Seligman; the 2006 winner of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology, Joseph Campbell; and the 2006 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, Mark G. Baxter, Theodore P. Beauchaine, Angela Bryan, Seth D. Pollak, Brian J. Scholl, and Anthony D. Wagner. Citations, brief profiles, and selected bibliographies of the award winners are included. If an award winner presented an address at the 114th APA Convention, the address is also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2007 Award winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Presents the citations and biographies of the 2007 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Selected bibliographies and articles written by the recipients are also presented. 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 recipients for 2007 are Marilynn B. Brewer, Jean M. Mandler, Paul Rozin, Karl G. J?reskog, Peter M. Bentler, J?rn Diedrichsen, R. Chris Fraley, Robert D. Gray, Matthew Dylan Lieberman, and Patrik O. Vuilleumier. (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)     

2003 Award Winners.

Presents the 2003 APA Awards. Awards are given in the following categories: Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology, Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Edwin B. Newman Award, Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, Contributions to Applications of Psychology in Education and Training, and Contributions to Applied Research. Included are lists of members of the various APA committees who selected the award recipients, lists of previous awardees, and award citations, biographies, selected bibliographies and award addresses for the 2003 award winners. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2009 award winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Lists the 2009 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Susan E. Carey, Alica H. Eagly, and Steven F. Maier). Also included are the winners of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (Nancy E. Adler) and Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Adam K. Anderson, Daniel J. Bauer, Ahmad R. Hariri, Christian N. L. Olivers, Robert E. Ployhart, and Jennifer A. Richeson). For each winner a citation, biography, and selected bibliography are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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. Award winners from 1956-2005 are listed. Also included here are the citations awarded to the 2005 APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of each award winner is included. If an address was delivered, the award winner's address to the 113th annual APA Convention is also published. The award winners were Charles G. Gross, Douglas L. Medin, and Robert S. Siegler. Gross delivered an address entitled Processing the Facial Image: A Brief History (see record 2005-14550-003). Siegler delivered an address entitled Children's Learning (see record 2005-14550-006). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2005 Award Winners: Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Gathers together all of the 2005 American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions that were presented at the 113th APA Convention in Washington, DC. Citations given to award winners for the specific Awards under this group are published together here. Brief biographies and selected bibliographies of each award winner accompany the citations. If an address was delivered by the award winner at the APA Convention it is also published here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

Questions whether psychologists within specializations other than experimental, comparative and physiological, and personality and social psychology make scientific contributions that merit major recognition by American Psychological Association awards, and why these psychologists rarely are honored by Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions or Awards for an Early Career Contribution in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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. The 2009 winners are Susan E. Carey, Alice H. Eagly, Steven F. Maier. For each awardee a citation, biography, and selected bibliography are presented. In addition, for Alice H. Eagly, her paper, entitled "The his and hers of prosocial behavior: An examination of the social psychology of gender," a version of which she delivered at APA's annual convention, is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished scientific award for the applications of psychology: 1985.

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 present an address on some phase of his or her scientific work at the 1986 convention. This year's winner, John Money, was presented with a check for $2,000 and an engrossed citation of his contribution. The award was presented by Mark Rosenzweig, chair of the Committee on Scientific Awards. Other members of the committee were Marshall Haith, Margaret Intons-Peterson, John Kihlstrom, Lyman Porter, and Mark Zanna. The winners since the establishment of the award are also listed here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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. This document lists the winners of these awards from 1956 to 2006, and provides the citations, brief profiles, and bibliographies for the 2006 recipients, Michael Davis, Marcia K. Johnson, and Martin E. P. Seligman. The award addresses, Neural Systems Involved in Fear and Anxiety Measured With Fear-Potentiated Startle (see record 2006-21079-027), Memory and Reality (see record 2006-21079-028), and Positive Psychotherapy (see record 2006-21079-029), are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the 2002 winners of the American Psychological Association Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. 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 2002 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. (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)     

American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards, 1965.

Presents the 1965 award winners and a listing of the previous winners of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. The stated purpose of the awards is to honor "outstanding contributions to the science of psychology." Three award winners were announced for 1965: Floyd Henry Allport, Fritz Heider, and Paul Thomas Young. The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution are presented by the Association at the Annual Convention. Each winner was presented with an engrossed citation of his formal contribution to the development of scientific psychology and a check for one thousand dollars. These psychologists have agreed, in accordance with what is established custom, to give addresses on some phase of their scientific work at the convention in 1966. The presentation of the awards was made by James J. Gibson, Chairman of the Committee for Selecting the Recipients of Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Scientific Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)