Modified: 2022-12-20
From 1985 to 2021 the American Psychological Foundation given awards in the areas of application, public interest, science, and starting in 1994, practice. In 2022 the awards were renamed "Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology." From 1956 to 1984 the APF made one award per year. Click HERE to see those awards.
| Year | Application | Public Interest | Science | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1985 |
E. Lowell Kelly | Otto Klineberg | John & Beatrice Lacey | |
| 1986 | Kenneth E. Clark | Stuart W. Cook | Eleanor J. Gibson | |
| 1987 | Rollo R. May | Kenneth B. Clark | Fritz Helder | |
| 1988 | Morris S. Viteles | Gardner Lindzey | Herbert A. Simon | |
| 1989 | Paul Everett Meehl | Norman Garmezy | Donald B. Lindsley | |
| 1990 | Joseph Zubin | Leona E. Tyler | George A. Miller | |
| 1991 | Douglas W. Bray | William Bevan | Harold Gulliksen | |
| 1992 | Arthur M. Benton | M. Brewster Smith | William K. Estes | |
| 1993 | John C. Flanagan | George W. Albee | Eliot Stellar | |
| 1994 | Charles H. Lawshe | Bernice L. Neugarten | Endel Tulving | Ronald E. Fox |
| 1995 | Frank Joseph McGuigan | Leonard D. Eron | Frances K. Graham | Harry Sands |
| 1996 | Harold Goodglass | Seymour B. Sarason | Eleanor Emmons Maccoby | Rogers Wright |
| 1997 | Philip S. Holzman | Edward Zigler | Raymond B. Cattell | Theodora M. Abel |
| 1998 | Chris Argyris | Wilbert J. McKeachie | Mary D. Ainsworth | Stanley R. Graham |
| 1999 | Lester Luborsky | Thomas Gordon | Wendell R. Garner | Herbert J. Freudenberger |
| 2000 | Harry Levinson | Robert Perloff | Roger N. Shepard | Stanley Moldawsky |
| 2001 | Joseph D. Matarazzo | Henry P. David | R. Duncan Luce | Herman Feifel |
| 2002 | Peter M. Lewinsohn | Ann R. P. Streissguth | John B. Carroll | Mathilda B. Canter |
| 2003 | Charles D. Spielberger | Ethel Tobach | Robert Rosenthal | Nicholas A. Cummings |
| 2004 | Edwin A. Fleishman | Florence L. Denmark | Janet Taylor Spence | Arthur Kovacs |
| 2005 | Jerome M. Sattler | James J. Gallagher | Howard Leventhal | A. Eugene Shapiro |
| 2006 | Eric Schopler | Asher R. Pacht | Albert Bandura | Jack G. Wiggins Jr |
| 2007 | Vernon McKay | Rhoda K. Unger | Irving I. Gottesman | Patricia Bricklin |
| 2008 | Theodore Millon | Raymond D. Fowler | Alice Eagly | Florence Kaslow |
| 2009 | Stuart Oskamp | E. Scott Geller | Mary K. Rothbart | Robert J. Resnick |
| 2010 | Richard Price | Patricia Gurin | Richard Thompson | Judith Worell |
| 2011 | Walter C. Borman | Bernice Lott | Marsha K. Johnson | Charles Silverstein |
| 2012 | Marsha Linehan | Salvatore R. Maddi | Philip G. Zimbardo | Carol D. Goodheart |
| 2013 | Frank Schmidt | Jacquelynne Eccles | Elizabeth Loftus | Patrick DeLeon |
| 2014 | Richard M. Lerner | Bonnie R. Strickland | Thomas J. Bouchard Jr | Gilbert O. Sanders |
| 2015 | Brian A. Iwata | Derald Wing Sue | Sarnoff A. Mednick | Walter Penk |
| 2016 | David W. Johnson | Beatrice A. Wright | Richard E. Nisbett | Sandra L. Shullman |
| 2017 | Robert J. Gatchel | Joseph Everett Trimble | Lynn Nadel | Rodney R. Baker |
| 2018 | Marvin R. Goldfried | James M. Jones | Connie Hammen | David H. Barlow |
| 2019 | Bruce E. Wampold | Janet Helms | Alan Kazdin | Lillian Comas-Diaz |
| 2020 | William Cross | Richard Suinn | Phoebe Ellsworth | Jean Carter |
| 2021 | Frederic Morrison | Vonnie McLoyd | Bernard Weiner | Samuel Knapp |