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2024  Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Austin, Texas
  • Institution for degree: University of Texas at Austin
  • Work location(s): Austin, Texas
  • General area: Counseling Psychology

2023  Thema S. Bryant, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Los Angeles, California
  • Institution for degree: Duke University
  • Work location(s): Los Angeles, California
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

2022  Frank C. Worrell, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Berkeley, California
  • Institution for degree: University of California, Berkeley
  • Work location(s): Berkeley, California
  • General area: School Psychology

2021  Jennifer F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Atlanta, Georgia 
  • Institution for degree: Florida State University 
  • Work location(s): Atlanta, Georgia
  • General area: Clinical Psychology; Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology

2020  Sandra L. Shullman, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Columbus, Ohio 
  • Institution for degree: The Ohio State University 
  • Work location(s): Columbus, Ohio
  • General area: Counseling Psychology; Organizational Emphasis

2019  Rosie Phillips Davis, PhD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Memphis, Tennessee
  • Institution for degree: Ohio State University
  • Work location(s): University of Memphis
  • General area: Counseling Psychology; Board Certified in Counseling Psychology

2018  Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: University of Illinois-Urbana
  • Work location(s): Boston Children’s Hospital
  • General area: Clinical Psychology; Board Certified in Clinical Psychology

2017  Antonio E. Puente, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Wilmington, North Carolina
  • Institution for degree: University of Georgia
  • Work location(s): St. George's University School of Medicine, Northeast Florida State Hospital, University of North Carolina
  • General area: Neuropsychology

2016  Susan H. McDaniel, PhD 

  • Location during presidency: Rochester, New York
  • Institution for degree: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Work location(s): University of Rochester Medical Center
  • General area: Family Health Psychology

2015  Barry S. Anton, PhD, ABPP 

  • Location during presidency: Tacoma, Washington
  • Institution for degree: Colorado State
  • Work location(s): University of Puget Sound, Private Practice
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

2014  Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Atlanta, Georgia
  • Institution for degree: University of Houston
  • Work location(s): Emory University School of Medicine
  • General area: Psychiatry/Behavioral

2013  Donald N. Bersoff, PhD, JD

  • Location during presidency: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Institution for degree: New York University
  • Work location(s): Air Force; Ohio State University; University of Georgia; University of Maryland; Johns Hopkins, American Psychological Association
  • General area: Forensic Psychology

2012  Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Tallahassee, Florida
  • Institution for degree: State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Work location(s): University of Florida College of Health Professions/Florida State University College of Medicine
  • General area: Clinical Health Psychology

2011  Melba J.T. Vasquez, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Austin, Texas
  • Institution for degree: University of Texas
  • Work location(s): Colorado State University; University of Texas; Private Practice
  • General area: Counseling Psychology & Independent Practice

2010  Carol D. Goodheart, EdD

  • Location during presidency: Princeton, New Jersey
  • Institution for degree: Rutgers University
  • Work location(s): Private Practice
  • General area: Health Psychology & Counseling Psychology

2009  James H. Bray, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Houston, Texas
  • Institution for degree: University of Houston
  • Work location(s): Texas Woman's University, Baylor College of Medicine
  • General area: Clinical & Family Psychologist

2008  Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: Northwestern University
  • Work location(s): Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Yale University
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

2007  Sharon Stephens Brehm, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Bloomington, Indiana
  • Institution for degree: Duke University
  • Work location(s): University of Kansas, State University of New York, Ohio University, Indiana University
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

2006  Gerald P. Koocher, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: University of Missouri
  • Work location(s): Simmons College, Harvard Medical, DePaul University
  • General area: Child/Clinical Psychology

2005  Ronald F. Levant, EdD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Akron, Ohio
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Boston University, Rutgers University, Harvard Medical School, Nova Southeastern University, University of Akron
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

2004  Diane F. Halpern, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Claremont, California
  • Institution for degree: University of Cincinnati
  • Work location(s): Claremont McKenna College
  • General area: Cognitive Psychology

2003  Robert J. Sternberg, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: Stanford University
  • Work location(s): Oklahoma State, Tufts University, Yale University, Cornell University
  • General area: Cognitive Psychology

2002  Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): New York University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Palo Alto University
  • General area: Social Psychology

2001  Norine G. Johnson, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Wayne State University
  • Work location(s): Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Private Practice
  • General area: Psychology of Women

2000  Patrick H. Deleon, PhD, MPH, JD

  • Location during presidency: Manoa, Hawaii
  • Institution for degree: Purdue University
  • Work location(s): Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; University of Hawaii; U.S. Senate; Peace Corps
  • General area: Public Policy

1999  Richard M. Suinn, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Fort Collins, Colorado
  • Institution for degree: Stanford University
  • Work location(s): Colorado State University; University of Hawaii; Stanford Medical School; Whitman College
  • General area: Sport; Behavioral; Ethnic Minorities

1998  Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Institution for degree: University of Pennsylvania
  • Work location(s): University of Pennsylvania
  • General area: Positive Psychology

1997  Norman Abeles, PhD

  • Location during presidency: East Lansing, Michigan
  • Institution for degree: University of Texas
  • Work location(s): Michigan State University
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1996  Dorothy W. Cantor, PsyD

  • Location during presidency: Westfield, New Jersey
  • Institution for degree: Rutgers University
  • Work location(s): Private Practice
  • General area: Psychology of Women

1995  Robert J. Resnick, PhD, ABPP

  • Location during presidency: Ashland, Virginia
  • Institution for degree: University of Tennessee
  • Work location(s): Medical College of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1994  Ronald E. Fox, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Dayton, Ohio
  • Institution for degree: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Work location(s): University North Carolina Chapel Hill, Ohio State University, Wright State University
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1993  Frank Farley, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Madison, Wisconsin
  • Institution for degree: University of London
  • Work location(s): University of Wisconsin-Madison, Temple University
  • General area: Behavioral Psychology

1992  Jack Wiggins, Jr., PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cleveland, Ohio
  • Institution for degree: Purdue University
  • Work location(s): Private Practice
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1991  Charles Spielberger, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Tampa, Florida
  • Institution for degree: University of Iowa
  • Work location(s): University of South Florida, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Florida State University
  • General area: Clinical/Community

1990  Stanley Graham, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: New York University
  • Work location(s): Private Practice
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1989  Joseph D. Matarazzo, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Portland, Oregon
  • Institution for degree: Northwestern University
  • Work location(s): Washington University, Harvard Medical School, Oregon. Health Sciences University
  • General area: Medical Psychology & Behavioral Health

1988  Raymond D. Fowler, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Institution for degree: Pennsylvania State University
  • Work location(s): University of Tennessee, University of Alabama
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1987  Bonnie R. Strickland, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Amherst, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Ohio State University
  • Work location(s): University of Massachusetts, Emory University
  • General area: Clinical/Psychology of Women

1986  Logan Wright, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Norman, Oklahoma
  • Institution for degree: George Peabody College
  • Work location(s): Purdue University, Okla. State University, Bethel College
  • General area: Child Clinical

1985  Robert Perloff, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • Institution for degree: Ohio State University
  • Work location(s): Purdue University, University of Pittsburgh
  • General area: Quantitative and Industrial

1984  Janet T. Spence, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Austin, Texas
  • Institution for degree: University of Iowa
  • Work location(s): Northwestern, University of Texas
  • General area: Psychology of Women/Gender

1983  Max Siegal, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Boca Raton, Florida
  • Institution for degree: New York University
  • Work location(s): Brooklyn College, Nova Southeastern University, Florida Atlantic University, Adelphi College
  • General area: Clinical/Forensic

1982  William Bevan, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Durham, North Carolina
  • Institution for degree: Duke University
  • Work location(s): Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Heidelberg College, Emory University, Kansas University
  • General area: Cognitive Psychology

1981  John J. Conger, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Denver, Colorado
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • General area: Child Development/Clinical

1980  Florence L. Denmark, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Bronx, New York
  • Institution for degree: University of Pennsylvania
  • Work location(s): Hunter College
  • General area: Psychology of Women

1979  Nicholas A. Cummings, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Palo Alto, California
  • Institution for degree: Adelphi College
  • Work location(s): California School of Professional Psychology
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1978  M. Brewster Smith, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Santa Cruz, California
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Harvard, Vassar College, NYU, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, UC Santa Cruz
  • General area: Social Psychology

1977  Theodore Blau, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Tampa, Florida
  • Institution for degree: Penn State University
  • Work location(s): University of South Florida; FBI Academy; private practice
  • General area: Clinical/Forensic

1976  Wilbert J. Mckeachie, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Institution for degree: University of Michigan
  • Work location(s): University of Michigan
  • General area: Teaching of Psychology

1975  Donald T. Campbell, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Evanston, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of California Berkeley
  • Work location(s): Ohio State; University of Chicago; Northwestern; Syracuse; Lehigh University
  • General area: Social Psychology

1974  Albert Bandura, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: University of Iowa
  • Work location(s): Stanford University
  • General area: Social Psychology

1973  Leona E. Tyler, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Eugene, Oregon
  • Institution for degree: University if Minnesota
  • Work location(s): University of Oregon
  • General area: Counseling/Developmental

1972  Anne Anastasi, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Bronx, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Fordham University; Barnard College; Queens College
  • General area: Applied Psychology

1971  Kenneth B. Clark, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): City College of New York; Hampton University
  • General area: Social Psychology

1970  George W. Albee, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cleveland, Ohio
  • Institution for degree: University of Pittsburgh
  • Work location(s): Case Western Reserve University; University of Vermont; University of Pittsburgh
  • General area: Clinical/Community

1969  George A. Miller, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Harvard; MIT; Princeton
  • General area: Cognitive Psychology

1968  A. H. Maslow, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Waltham, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: University of Wisconsin
  • Work location(s): Brandeis University; Brooklynn College; New School for Social Research; Columbia
  • General area: Experimental/Behavioral

1967  Gardner Lindzey, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Austin, Texas
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Syracuse University; University of Minnesota; University of Texas; Harvard
  • General area: Social Psychology

1966  Nicholas Hobbs, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Nashville, Tennessee
  • Institution for degree: Ohio State University
  • Work location(s): Columbia; Louisiana State; Vanderbilt (Peabody College)
  • General area: Educational/Clinical

1965  Jerome Bruner, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Harvard; Oxford; New York University
  • General area: Experimental/Educational

1964  Quinn McNemar, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: Stanford University
  • Work location(s): Stanford University; University of Texas
  • General area: Psychometrics

1963  Charles E. Osgood, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1962  Paul E. Meehl, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Institution for degree: University of Minnesota
  • Work location(s): University of Minnesota
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1961  Neal E. Miller, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): Yale University; Rockefeller University; Cornell University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1960  Donald O. Hebb, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Montreal, Canada
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Montreal Neurological Institute; the Queen's University; McGill University; Dalhousie University
  • General area: Neuropsychology

1959  W. Kohler, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Hanover, New Hampshire
  • Institution for degree: University of Berlin
  • Work location(s): Psychoanalytic Institute of Frankfurt; Prussian Academy of Sciences; University of Berlin; Swarthmore; Dartmouth
  • General area: Learning Psychology

1958  H. F. Harlow, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Madison, Wisconsin
  • Institution for degree: Stanford University
  • Work location(s): University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • General area: Biological Psychology

1957  Lee J. Cronbach, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): University of Illinois; University of Chicago; State College of Washington; Stanford
  • General area: Educational Psychology

1956  Theodore M. Newcomb, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Ann Arbor, Mich.
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University.
  • Work location(s): Lehigh U, Case Western Reserve, Bennington College, University of Mich, University of Conn, Purdue.
  • General area: Social Psychology.

1955: E. Lowell Kelly, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Institution for degree: Stanford University
  • Work location(s): University of Michigan
  • General area: Clinical Psychology

1954: O. Hobart Mowrer, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Urbana, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins University
  • Work location(s): Yale University; Harvard University; University of Illinois
  • General area: Behavioral Psychology

1953: Laurence Frederic Shaffer, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Air Force Academy; Columbia University
  • General area: Health Psychology

1952: Joseph McVicker Hunt, PhD, DSc

  • Location during presidency: Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Brown University
  • Work location(s): University of Nebraska; Brown University; University of Illinois; Columbia University; New York University; Cornell
  • General area: Personality and Behavioral

1951: Robert R. Sears, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): University of Illinois; Yale University; University of Iowa; Harvard University; Stanford University
  • General area: Developmental Psychology

1950: Joy Paul Guilford, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Los Angeles, California
  • Institution for degree: University of Southern California
  • Work location(s): University of Nebraska; University of Kansas; Air Force Academy
  • General area: Psychometrics

1949  Ernest R. Hilgard, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): Stanford University, Yale University
  • General area: Hypnosis

1948: Donald G. Marquis, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Institution for degree: Yale University.
  • Work location(s): University of Michigan; MIT; Yale University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1947  Carl R. Rogers, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University
  • General area: Psychotherapy/Humanistic

1946: Henry E. Garrett, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University
  • General area: Eugenics.

1945: Edwin R. Guthrie, PhD, LLD

  • Location during presidency: Seattle, Washington
  • Institution for degree: University of Nebraska
  • Work location(s): University of Washington
  • General area: Behavioral/Learning Psychology

1944: Gardner Murphy, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University, Harvard University, City College of New York
  • General area: Social/Personality

1943: John Edward Anderson, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Yale University, University of Minnesota
  • General area: Developmental Psychology

1942: Calvin Perry Stone, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: University of Minnesota
  • Work location(s): University of Minnesota, Stanford University
  • General area: Comparative/Physiological

1941: Herbert Woodrow, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Princeton University; Barnard College; University Illinois; University of Minnesota; Columbia University
  • General area: Developmental/Educational

1940: Leonard Carmichael, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Somerville, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Princeton University; Brown University; University of Rochester
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1939: Gordon Willard Allport, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Dartmouth College; Harvard University
  • General area: Personality/Social

1938: John Frederick Dashiell, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Waynesburg College; Princeton University; University of Minnesota; Oberlin College; UNC-Chapel Hill
  • General area: Social Psychology

1937: Edward Chace Tolman, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Berkley, California
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): University of California Berkley
  • General area: Behavioral Psychology

1936: Clark Leonard Hull, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: University of Michigan
  • Work location(s): Yale University
  • General area: Learning/Behavioral

1935: Albert Theodor Poffenberger, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University
  • General area: Applied Psychology

1934: Joseph Peterson, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Nashville, Tennessee
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): University of Utah; University of Minnesota; Peabody College (Vanderbilt)
  • General area: Experimental/Cultural

1933: Louis Leon Thurstone, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): University of Chicago; Penn College
  • General area: Psychometrics

1932: Walter Richard Miles, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Palo Alto, California
  • Institution for degree: Iowa State University
  • Work location(s): Wesleyan University; Stanford University; Yale University
  • General area: Behavioral Psychology

1931: Walther Samuel Hunter, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): University of Texas, University of Kansas, Clark University, Brown University
  • General area: Behavioral/Developmental

1930: Herbert Sidney Langfeld, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Princeton, New Jersey
  • Institution for degree: University of Berlin
  • Work location(s): Harvard University; Princeton University.
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1929: Karl S. Lashley, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins University
  • Work location(s): University of Minnesota; University of Chicago; Harvard University; Cornell University
  • General area: Learning/Quantitative

1928: Edwin Garrigues Boring, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Mass
  • Institution for degree: Cornell University
  • Work location(s): Clark University, Harvard University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1927: Harry Levi Hollingsworth, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University
  • General area: Applied/Industrial Psychology

1926: Harvey A. Carter, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): Pratt Institute, University of Chicago
  • General area: Functionalist Psychology

1925: Madison Bentley, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Ithaca, New York
  • Institution for degree: Cornell University
  • Work location(s): Cornell University
  • General area: Structuralism

1924: Granville Stanley Hall, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Clark University; University of Berlin; Antioch College; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins
  • General area: Development/Evolutionary

1923: Lewis Madison Terman, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Stanford, California
  • Institution for degree: Clark University
  • Work location(s): Stanford University
  • General area: Educational Psychology

1922: Knight Dunlap, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Berkeley, California
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): University of California Berkeley; Johns Hopkins; University of California Los Angeles
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1921  Margaret Floy Washburn, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Vassar College
  • General area: Animal Behavior

1920: Shepard Ivory Franz, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Washington, D.C.
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Harvard University, Dartmouth University, George Washington University, University of California Los Angeles
  • General area: Neuropsychology

1919: Walter Dill Scott, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Evanston, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Leipzig
  • Work location(s): Northwestern University; Carnegie Institute of Technology
  • General area: Applied Psychology

1918: John Wallace Baird, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Washington, D.C.
  • Institution for degree: Cornell University
  • Work location(s): Cornell; Johns Hopkins; University of Illinois; Clark University
  • General area: Applied Psychology

1917: Robert Mearns Yerkes, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Harvard University; Radcliffe College; Yale University
  • General area: Comparative Psychology

1916: Raymond Dodge, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Middletown, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: University of Halle
  • Work location(s): Berlin Academy; Ursinus College; Wesleyan University; Carnegie Institute
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1915: John Broadus Watson, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Institution for degree: University of Chicago
  • Work location(s): Johns Hopkins University
  • General area: Behavioral Psychology

1914: Robert Sessions Woodworth, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University
  • General area: Functionalist/Experimental

1913: Howard Crosby Warren, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Princeton, New Jersey
  • Institution for degree: Princeton University
  • Work location(s): Princeton University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1912: Edward Lee Thorndike, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Case Western Reserve, Columbia University
  • General area: Comparative/Educational

1911: Carl Emil Seashore, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Iowa City, Iowa
  • Institution for degree: Yale University
  • Work location(s): University of Iowa
  • General area: Psychology of Music

1910: Walter Bowers Pillsbury, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Cornell University
  • Work location(s): University of Michigan, Columbia University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1909: Charles Hubbard Judd, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: University of Leipzig
  • Work location(s): University of Chicago
  • General area: Educational Psychology

1908: George Malcolm Stratton, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Institution for degree: University of Leipzig
  • Work location(s): University of California Berkeley; Johns Hopkins
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1907: Henry Rutgers Marshall, AM

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: Columbia University
  • Work location(s): Columbia University; Princeton University
  • General area: Psychobiology

1906: James Rowland Angell, MA

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): University of Chicago, Yale University
  • General area: Functionalist Psychology

1905  Mary Whiton Calkins, AM

  • Location during presidency: Wellesley, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Wellesley College
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1904  William James, MD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard Medical School
  • Work location(s): Harvard Medical School
  • General area: Functionalist Psychology

1903: William Lowe Bryan, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Bloomington, Indiana
  • Institution for degree: Clark University
  • Work location(s): Indiana University
  • General area: Developmental Psychology

1902: Edmund Clark Sanford, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins
  • Work location(s): Clark University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1901: Josiah Royce, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins
  • Work location(s): Johns Hopkins, University of California Berkeley; Harvard University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1900: Joseph Jastrow, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Madison, Wisconsin
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins
  • Work location(s): University of Wisconsin-Madison, The New School of Social Research
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1899: John Dewey, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Chicago, Illinois
  • Institution for degree: Johns Hopkins
  • Work location(s): University of Michigan; University of Chicago; Columbia University
  • General area: Functionalist Psychology

1898: Hugo Münsterberg, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: University of Leipzig
  • Work location(s): University of Freiburg, Harvard, University of Berlin, Harvard University
  • General area: Applied Psychology

1897: James Mark Baldwin, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Princeton, New Jersey
  • Institution for degree: Princeton University
  • Work location(s): Princeton University; Lake Forest College; University of Toronto; Johns Hopkins University
  • General area: Experimental/Developmental

1896: George Stuart Fullerton, MA

  • Location during presidency: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Institution for degree: Yale Divinity School
  • Work location(s): University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Vienna
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1895: James McKeen Cattell, PhD

  • Location during presidency: New York, New York
  • Institution for degree: University of Leipzig
  • Work location(s): University of Cambridge; University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University
  • General area: Experimental Psychology

1894  William James, MD

  • Location during presidency: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard Medical School
  • Work location(s): Harvard Medical School
  • General area: Functionalist Psychology

1893: George Trumbull Ladd, DD, LLD

  • Location during presidency: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Institution for degree: Western Reserve College
  • Work location(s): Bowdoin College; Yale; Andover Theological Seminary; Harvard University; Imperial University
  • General area: Physiological Psychology

1892: Granville Stanley Hall, PhD

  • Location during presidency: Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Institution for degree: Harvard University
  • Work location(s): Clark University; University of Berlin; Antioch College; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University
  • General area: Developmental/Evolutionary
Last updated: January 2025Date created: 2008