The APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research (until 2003 known as the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge) is a scientific award presented by the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

"to a psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology." The 1997 award to John E. Exner raised a controversy, as it was seen as granting a professional endorsement to the

Rorschach test The Rorschach test is a projective test, projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychology, psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists u ...

, seen by some as

pseudoscience Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable cl ...

.. This overview of the controversy over Exner and the award states "This award could be understood as a formal endorsement of the Rorschach. One would not provide an award for distinguished contributions to knowledge to Exner if the Rorschach had not provided substantial or significant contributions to knowledge."

List of recipients

Source
American Psychological Association
*1979 Sol L. Garfield, Leopold Bellak, Harry Levinson *1980 Leonard D. Eron *1981 Carl Eisdorfer *1982 Roy Schafer *1983 Neal E. Miller *1984 Norman Frederiksen *1985

Albert Ellis Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was cer ...

*1986 Edward Zigler *1987 Mary D. S. Ainsworth, Hans H. Strupp *1988 Herman Feifel *1989 Allen E. Bergin *1990 Manfred J. Meier *1991 W. Grant Dahlstrom, Joseph Matarazzo *1992 Leopold Bellak, Harry Levinson *1993 Paul E. Meehl *1994 John L. Holland *1995 Kenneth I. Howard, Lester B. Luborsky *1996 Paul Satz *1997 John E. Exner, Samuel M. Turner *1998/1999 Peter E. Nathan *2000 Simon H. Budman *2001 Marvin R. Goldfried *2002 John D. Krumboltz *2003 Theodore Millon, Stanley Sue *2004 Robert J. Gatchel *2005

Gail S. Goodman Gail S. Goodman is an American psychologist, known as one of the first in her field to study children's roles in the legal system, specifically children's eyewitness testimony pertaining to the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, S ...

*2006 Stephen M. Weiss *2007 Bruce E. Wampold *2008 Richard Rogers *2009 Luciano L'Abate *2010 Catherine E. Lord *2011 Ronald F. Levant *2012 Leslie S. Greenberg *2013 Richard M. Fox *2014 J. Thomas Grisso *2015 Leonard A. Jason *2016 Albert Rivera *2017 Cameron J. Camp *2018 Gary W. Harper *2019 David C. Schwebel *2020 Nancy E. Betz *2021 Joseph Patrick Gone *2022 Sandra Graham-Bermann *2023 Jennifer Wolff *2024 Pim Cuijpers *2025 Karen Chan Osilla {{Div col end

References

Awards of the American Psychological Association Awards established in 1979

List of recipients

See also

References