Modified: 2022-12-19
The following psychologists were awarded the APF's original Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Psychology. After 1984 the APF reordered the medal into five categories: Practice, Public Interest, Science, Application, and Teaching. Click HERE to see the awardees in those categories.
1956 Robert S. Woodworth, PhD
1957 No award given (But, JohnB. Watson was received APA's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions)
1958 Edwin R. Guthrie, PhD
1959 Edwin G. Boring, PhD
1960 John Dashiell, PhD
1961 No award given
1962 Walter Miles, PhD
1963 Gordon W. Allport, PhD
1964 No award given
1965 Heinrich Kluver, PhD
1966 Karl N. Dallenbach, PhD
1967 No award given
1968 Floyd H. Allport, PhD
1969 Henry A. Murray, PhD
1970 Sidney L. Pressey, PhD
1971 B. F. Skinner, PhD
1972 Gardner Murphy, PhD
1973 Harry Harlow, PhD
1974 Donald O. Hebb, PhD
1975 Neal E. Miller, PhD
1976 Arthur Melton, PhD
1977 Daniel Katz, PhD
1978 Ernest R. Hilgard, PhD
1979 J. McVicker Hunt, PhD
1980 Pauline Sears, PhD
Robert Sears, PhD
1981 Theodore Newcomb, PhD
1982 Nancy Bayley, PhD
1983 J. Paul Guilford, PhD
1984 Anne Anastasi, PhD