APS Lifetime Achievement Awards

Premiering Exclusively at the APS Virtual Convention:

2020 and 2021 APS Award Addresses

Content available on-demand for the entire convention

Recipients of APS’s James McKeen Cattell Award, William James Fellow Award, and Mentor Award discuss their research and share lessons from their careers.

2020 APS William James Fellow Award

Neil Burgess

University College London, UK

Carol S. Dweck

Stanford University, USA

Susan A. Gelman

University of Michigan, USA

Andrew N. Meltzoff

University of Washington, USA


2020 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award

Thomas E. Joiner

Florida State University, USA

Richard M. Lerner

Tufts University, USA


2020 APS Mentor Award

Toni C. Antonucci

University of Michigan, USA

Elizabeth Ligon Bjork & Robert A. Bjork

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

E. Tory Higgins

Columbia University, USA


2021 APS William James Fellow Award

Michelene (Micki) Chi

Arizona State University ,USA

Dante Cicchetti

University of Minnesota, USA

Nancy Kanwisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

James Pennebaker

University of Texas at Austin, USA


2021 APS James McKeen Cattell Award

Alison Gopnik

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Megan Gunnar

University of Minnesota, USA

Saul Kassin

John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York) and Williams College, USA


2021 APS Mentor Award

BJ Casey

Yale University, USA

Harald Merckelbach

Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Miguel Moya

University of Granada, Spain

Elizabeth Spelke

Harvard University, USA