Distinguished Scientist Award Recipients

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology has honored distinguished scientists since the early 1970s.

Listed below are the previous award winners.

 

Year	Recipient
2024	Kay Deaux, David L. Hamilton
2023	Roy Baumeister
2022	John Bargh, Jennifer Crocker
2021	Mark Leary
2020	Brenda Major, James (Jim) Sidanius
2019	John (Jack) Dovidio, Russell Fazio
2018	Margaret Clark, Eliot Smith
2017	Phoebe Ellsworth
2016	Fritz Strack, Norbert Schwarz
2015	John Cacioppo, Richard Petty
2014	Susan Fiske, Carol Dweck
2013	Icek Ajzen
2013	Philip Shaver
2012	Hazel Rose Markus
2012	David Kenny
2011	Mark Snyder
2011	Daniel Wegner
2010	Abraham Tesser
2010	Bernard Weiner
2009	Robert B. Cialdini
2009	Claude M. Steele
2008	Lee D. Ross
2008	Robert S. Wyer, Jr.
2007	Arie Kruglanski
2007	Mark Zanna
2006	Anthony Greenwald
2005	E. Tory Higgins
2004	Marilyn Brewer
2003	Shelley Taylor
2002	Thomas Pettigrew
2001	Jerome Bruner
2000	Walter Mischel
1999	Alice Eagly
1998	Jack Brehm
1997	John Darley
1997	Bibb Latané
1996	Robert Rosenthal
1995	Richard Nisbett
1994	Elliot Aronson
1993	Ellen Berscheid
1993	Elaine Hatfield
1992	William McGuire
1991	Irving Janis
1990	Robert Abelson
1989	Leonard Berkowitz
1988	Donald Campbell
1987	Edward Jones
1986	Robert Zajonc
1985	Morton Deutsch
1984	No award
1983	Stanley Schachter (presented at 1984 meeting)
1982	Ivan Steiner
1981	Harold Kelley
1981	John Thibaut
1980	Leon Festinger
1979	Daniel Katz
1978	Muzafer Sherif
1977	Leonard Doob
Pre-1977	Solomon Asch
Pre-1977	Dorwin Cartwright
Pre-1977	Fritz Heider
Pre-1977	Theodore Newcomb