Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.

The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. The 2024 recipients of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2023 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2023 Committee on Scientific Awards. For outstanding contributions to understanding attitudes and social influence, especially the development of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) which identified relatively thoughtful and nonthoughtful routes to persuasion along with the different antecedents (e.g., personal relevance; need for cognition) and consequences (e.g., attitude stability, prediction of behavior) of the two paths, Richard E. Petty is a 2024 award winner. The ELM presaged many issues that became prominent in other dual-process and system theories. Richard E. Petty's notable contributions also extend to work on embodied cognition, attitude strength, metacognition (especially bias correction and self-validation processes), research methods, and the training of many graduate students and postdocs who have gone on to prominent careers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).