# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Psychology)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.

## Psychological and cognitive sciences

| Name | Institution | Year |
| Edward Adelson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2006 |
| Mathew Alpern (d. 1996) | University of Michigan | 1991 |
| Abram Amsel (d. 2006) | University of Texas at Austin | 1992 |
| John R. Anderson | Carnegie Mellon University | 1999 |
| Richard N. Aslin | University of Rochester | 2013 |
| Richard C. Atkinson | University of California, San Diego | 1974 |
| Renee Baillargeon | University of Illinois | 2015 |
| Mahzarin Banaji | Harvard University | 2018 |
| Martin S. Banks | University of California, Berkeley | 2019 |
| Linda Bartoshuk | Yale University | 2003 |
| Frank A. Beach (d. 1988) | University of California, Berkeley | 1949 |
| Marlene Behrmann | Carnegie Mellon University | 2015 |
| Kent C. Berridge | University of Michigan | 2024 |
| Robert A. Bjork | University of California, Los Angeles | 2022 |
| Randolph Blake | Vanderbilt University | 2012 |
| Gordon Bower (d. 2020) | Stanford University | 1973 |
| Robert Boynton (d. 2006) | University of California, San Diego | 1981 |
| David H. Brainard | University of Pennsylvania | 2023 |
| Joan Bresnan | Stanford University | 2023 |
| Roger Brown (d. 1997) | Harvard University | 1972 |
| Susan Carey | Harvard University | 2002 |
| Noam Chomsky | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1972 |
| Robert Cialdini | Arizona State University | 2019 |
| Clyde Coombs (d. 1988) | University of Michigan | 1982 |
| Anne Cutler (d. 2022) | University of Western Sydney | 2008 |
| Gary Dell | University of Illinois | 2015 |
| Russell L. De Valois (d. 2003) | University of California, Berkeley | 1976 |
| Barbara Dosher | University of California, Irvine | 2011 |
| Stanislas Dehaene | College de France | 2010 |
| Carol Dweck | Stanford University | 2012 |
| Alice Eagly | Northwestern University | 2022 |
| Jennifer Eberhardt | Stanford University | 2016 |
| Randall Engle | Georgia Tech | 2020 |
| William Estes (d. 2011) | Indiana University | 1963 |
| Leon Festinger (d. 1989) | The New School for Social Research | 1972 |
| Susan Fiske | Princeton University | 2013 |
| John Flavell | Stanford University | 1994 |
| Marianne Frankenhaeuser [sv] (d. 2005) | University of Stockholm | 1989 |
| Uta Frith | University of London | 2012 |
| Robert Galambos (d. 2010) | University of California, San Diego | 1960 |
| C. Randy Gallistel | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 2002 |
| John Garcia (d. 2012) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1983 |
| Michael Gazzaniga | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2011 |
| Wilson Geisler | University of Texas at Austin | 2008 |
| Michele J. Gelfand | Stanford University | 2021 |
| Rochel Gelman | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 2006 |
| Susan Gelman | University of Michigan | 2012 |
| Dedre Gentner | Northwestern University | 2021 |
| Eleanor J. Gibson (d. 2002) | Cornell University | 1971 |
| Lila Gleitman (d. 2021) | University of Pennsylvania | 2000 |
| Susan Goldin-Meadow | University of Chicago | 2020 |
| Frances K. Graham (d. 2013) | University of Delaware | 1988 |
| Norma Graham | Columbia University | 1998 |
| David M. Green (d. 2022) | University of Florida | 1978 |
| Megan Gunnar | University of Minnesota | 2022 |
| Peter Hagoort | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | 2018 |
| Morris Halle (d. 2018) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1988 |
| David Heeger | New York University | 2013 |
| Richard Held (d. 2016) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1973 |
| Ernest Hilgard (d. 2001) | Stanford University | 1948 |
| Robert Hinde (d. 2016) | University of Cambridge | 1978 |
| Ira Hirsh (d. 2010) | Washington University in St. Louis | 1979 |
| Julian Hochberg (d. 2022) | Columbia University | 1980 |
| Carl Hovland (d. 1961) | Yale University | 1960 |
| Leo Hurvich (d. 2009) | University of Pennsylvania | 1975 |
| Dorothea Jameson (d. 1998) | University of Pennsylvania | 1975 |
| Marcia Johnson | Yale University | 2014 |
| Philip Johnson-Laird | Princeton University | 2007 |
| James M. Jones | University of Delaware | 2023 |
| Béla Julesz (d. 2003) | Rutgers University | 1987 |
| Daniel Kahneman (d. 2024) | Princeton University | 2001 |
| Nancy Kanwisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2005 |
| Harold Kelley (d. 2003) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1978 |
| Roberta Klatzky | Carnegie Mellon University | 2022 |
| Heinrich Klüver (d. 1979) | University of Chicago | 1957 |
| Wolfgang Köhler (d. 1967) | Swarthmore College | 1947 |
| Patricia Kuhl | University of Washington | 2010 |
| William Labov | University of Pennsylvania | 1993 |
| Barbara Landau | Johns Hopkins University | 2018 |
| Daniel S. Lehrman (d. 1972) | Rutgers University | 1970 |
| Willem Levelt | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | 2000 |
| Alvin Liberman (d. 2000) | Haskins Laboratories | 1976 |
| John C. Liebeskind (d. 1997) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1995 |
| Donald B. Lindsley (d. 2003) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1952 |
| Gardner Lindzey (d. 2008) | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | 1989 |
| Elizabeth Loftus | University of California, Irvine | 2004 |
| R. Duncan Luce (d. 2008) | University of California, Irvine | 1972 |
| Eleanor Maccoby (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1993 |
| Brenda Major | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2024 |
| Ellen Markman | Stanford University | 2011 |
| Hazel Markus | Stanford University | 2016 |
| James McClelland | Stanford University | 2001 |
| Vonnie McLoyd | University of Michigan | 2024 |
| Douglas Medin | Northwestern University | 2005 |
| Paul E. Meehl (d. 2003) | University of Minnesota | 1987 |
| David E. Meyer | University of Michigan | 2009 |
| George A. Miller (d. 2012) | Princeton University | 1962 |
| Neal E. Miller (d. 2002) | Yale University | 1958 |
| Walter Mischel (d. 2018) | Columbia University | 2004 |
| Jacob Nachmias (d. 2019) | University of Pennsylvania | 1984 |
| Lynn Nadel | University of Arizona | 2021 |
| Ulric Neisser (d. 2012) | Cornell University | 1989 |
| Helen Neville (d. 2018) | University of Oregon | 2014 |
| Nora Newcombe | Temple University | 2024 |
| Allen Newell (d. 1992) | Carnegie Mellon University | 1972 |
| Elissa Newport | University of Rochester | 2004 |
| Richard Nisbett | University of Michigan | 2002 |
| James Olds (d. 1976) | California Institute of Technology | 1967 |
| Barbara Partee | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1989 |
| Carl Pfaffmann (d. 1994) | Rockefeller University | 1959 |
| Janet Pierrehumbert | University of Oxford | 2019 |
| Steven Pinker | Harvard University | 2016 |
| Michael Posner | University of Oregon | 1981 |
| Leo Postman (d. 2004) | University of California, Berkeley | 1974 |
| Dale Purves | Duke University | 1989 |
| Robert Rescorla (d. 2020) | University of Pennsylvania | 1985 |
| Jennifer Richeson | Yale University | 2015 |
| Curt Richter (d. 1988) | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | 1948 |
| John R. Rickford | Stanford University | 2021 |
| Henry Roediger | Washington University in St. Louis | 2017 |
| Mark Rosenzweig (d. 2009) | University of California, Berkeley | 1979 |
| Lee Ross (d. 2021) | Stanford University | 2010 |
| David Rumelhart (d. 2011) | Stanford University | 1991 |
| Stanley Schachter (d. 1997) | Columbia University | 1983 |
| Daniel Schacter | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Robert Sellers | University of Michigan | 2023 |
| Roger Shepard (d. 2022) | Stanford University | 1977 |
| Richard Shiffrin | Indiana University | 1995 |
| Herbert A. Simon (d. 2001) | Carnegie Mellon University | 1967 |
| B. F. Skinner (d. 1990) | Harvard University | 1950 |
| Paul Slovic | University of Oregon | 2016 |
| Edward E. Smith (d. 2012) | Columbia University | 1996 |
| Linda B. Smith | Indiana University | 2019 |
| Richard Solomon (d. 1968) | Harvard University | 1968 |
| Elizabeth Spelke | Harvard University | 1999 |
| George Sperling | University of California, Irvine | 1985 |
| Roger Wolcott Sperry (d. 1994) | California Institute of Technology | 1960 |
| Claude Steele | Stanford University | 2003 |
| Eliot Stellar (d. 1993) | University of Pennsylvania | 1968 |
| Saul Sternberg | University of Pennsylvania | 1982 |
| Patrick Suppes (d. 2014) | Stanford University | 1978 |
| John Swets (d. 2016) | BBN Technologies | 1990 |
| Shelley Taylor | University of California, Los Angeles | 2009 |
| Philip Teitelbaum | University of Florida | 1974 |
| Michael Tomasello | Duke University | 2017 |
| Anne Treisman (d. 2018) | Princeton University | 1994 |
| Endel Tulving (d. 2023) | University of Toronto | 1988 |
| Benton J. Underwood (d. 1994) | Northwestern University | 1970 |
| Allan R. Wagner (d. 2018) | Yale University | 1992 |
| Hans Wallach (d. 1998) | Swarthmore College | 1986 |
| Brian Wandell | Stanford University | 2003 |
| Elke Weber | Princeton University | 2020 |
| Henry Wellman | University of Michigan | 2024 |
| Janet Werker | University of British Columbia | 2020 |
| David R. Williams | University of Rochester | 2014 |
| Timothy Wilson | University of Virginia | 2020 |
| Jozef Zwislocki (d. 2018) | Syracuse University | 1990 |