Book Award

This annual joint award of the Research Board and Psychology Education Board is given to the author(s) or editor(s) of a book considered either to make a significant contribution to the advancement of psychological knowledge, to expound the teaching of psychology with clarity and insight, to make psychology accessible to a wider public, or to expand the scientific bases for the practice of psychology.

1993 Nicholas Humphrey, A History of the Mind
1994 Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science
1995 [no award]¹
1996 Christopher Frith, The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia
1997 Richard Byrne, The Thinking Ape
1998 Adrian Wells & Gerald Matthews, Attention and Emotion: A Clinical Perspective
1999 Dorothy Bishop, Uncommon Understanding: Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension in Children
2000 Gerry Altmann,
2001 Vicki Bruce & Andy Young, In the Eye of the Beholder: The Science of Face Perception
2002 Ian J. Deary, Looking Down on Intelligence
2003 Barbara Wilson, Case Studies in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
2004 Richard Bentall, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
2005 David Milner & Mel Goodale, Sight Unseen
2006 Jeffrey Gray,² Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
2007 Andy Field, Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (2nd edn)
2008 Christopher Frith, Making Up the Mind
2009 Alan Baddeley, Working Memory, Thought, and Action

¹ A reorganisation of the timetable of the award meant that no award was made in 1995.
² Award was made posthumously.

Full details of the award criteria and how to make nominations