This list of psychology awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for work in the fields of psychology, cognitive sciences and psychiatry.
Country | Award | Sponsor | Given for |
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Canada | CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science | Canadian Psychological Association | Significant contribution to Canadian psychology as a scientific discipline [1] |
Canada, United States | Howard Crosby Warren Medal | Society of Experimental Psychologists | The Society of Experimental Psychologists awards the Howard Crosby Warren Medal annually for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology in the United States and Canada. [2] |
Canada | Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship | Canadian Psychological Association | Best psychoanalytic book [3] |
Canada | Otto Weininger Memorial Award | Canadian Psychological Association | Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychologist who has demonstrated outstanding clinical, empirical, or theoretical contributions in the areas of psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychology [4] Defunct. [5] |
Chile | National Prize for Natural Sciences | CONICYT | Various categories [6] |
Denmark | The Brain Prize | Lundbeck Foundation | Outstanding contribution to neuroscience and still active in research [7] |
Europe | Aristotle Prize | European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA) | Psychologist from Europe who has made a distinguished contribution to psychology [8] |
France | Jean Nicod Prize | French National Centre for Scientific Research | Leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist [9] |
Germany | Kurt Koffka Medal | University of Giessen | To honor scientists who advanced the fields of perception or developmental psychology to an extraordinary extent [10] |
Italy | Mind & Brain Prize | Polytechnic University of Turin | Outstanding achievement in advancing knowledge about mind and brain by persons whose work contributed to the growth and development of the discipline [11] [12] |
United Kingdom | BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award | British Psychological Society | Outstanding contribution to neuropsychology in the United Kingdom [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] |
United Kingdom | Presidents' Award | British Psychological Society | honours a psychologist in mid to late career (10-25 years post PhD), currently engaged in research of outstanding quality that has made exceptional contributions to psychological knowledge [18] |
United Kingdom | Spearman Medal | British Psychological Society | Outstanding published work in psychology which represents a significant body of work in terms of theoretical contributions, originality, and impact [19] |
United States | APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology | American Psychological Association | Distinguished and enduring lifetime contributions to the international cooperation and advancement of knowledge in psychology [20] |
United States | APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research | American Psychological Association | Psychologist whose research has led to important discoveries or developments in the field of applied psychology [21] |
United States | APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology | American Psychological Association | Psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology [22] |
United States | APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology | American Psychological Association | Lifetime contributions [23] |
United States | APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology | American Psychological Association | Outstanding research psychologists who are in the early stages of their career [24] |
United States | APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology | American Psychological Association | Applications of psychology [25] |
United States | APA International Humanitarian Award | American Psychological Association | Extraordinary humanitarian service and activism by a psychologist or a team of psychologists, including professional and/or volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations [26] |
United States | Bruno Klopfer Award | Society for Personality Assessment | Lifetime achievement in personality psychology [27] [28] |
United States | Covey Award | International Association for Computing and Philosophy | (Cognitive science) Accomplished innovative research, and possibly teaching that flows from that research, in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived [29] |
United States | Donald T. Campbell Award | APA Society for Personality and Social Psychology | Distinguished researchers in the field of social psychology [30] [31] |
United States | E. L. Thorndike Award | American Psychological Association | Substantial career achievements in educational psychology [32] |
United States | Frank Prize | University of Florida | Research that advances public interest communications around positive social change, including issues such as education, health, politics, and the environment [33] |
United States | Grawemeyer Award | University of Louisville | Psychology: ideas rather than lifelong or publicized personal achievement [34] |
United States | James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award | Association for Psychological Science | Lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology [35] |
United States | Joseph Zubin Award (APPA) | American Psychopathological Association | Fundamental role in psychopathology research, contributed knowledge and stimulated others [36] |
United States | Joseph Zubin Award (SRP) | Society for Research in Psychopathology | Lifetime achievement award [37] |
United States | Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award | New York State Psychiatric Institute etc | Investigators who are in an early stage of their career, but have already made significant contributions to research in any area of psychopathology. From 1994 through 2010. [38] |
United States | Oskar Pfister Award | American Psychiatric Association, Association of Mental Health Clergy | Significant contributions to the field of religion and psychiatry [39] |
United States | Rumelhart Prize | Cognitive Science Society | Contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition [40] |
United States | Troland Research Awards | National Academy of Sciences | Researchers under the age of 40 in recognition of psychological research on the relationship between consciousness and the physical world [41] |
United States | William James Fellow Award | Association for Psychological Science | APS Members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology [42] |