Lifetime Achievement Award

The award will honor an individual who has made long-lasting and distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to basic research in experimental psychology. The awardee will receive a plaque and will be invited to present an address at the next APA convention.

Nomination materials should consist of:

• A letter (two-page limit).
• Candidate’s vitae describing his or her contributions to the field.

2025

Irene Pepperberg, PhD

2024

Valerie Reyna, PhD

2022

Diane Halpern, PhD
Jonathan Cohen MD, PhD

2021

Alice Healy, PhD

2020

Nelson Cowan, PhD

2019

Harry Bahrick, PhD

2018

Michael Posner, PhD

2017

Morton Anne Gernsbacher, PhD
Anne Treisman, PhD

2016

Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, PhD
Duane M. Rumbaugh, PhD

2015

Larry Jacoby, PhD

2014

Keith Rayner, PhD

2013