| Year | Name | Title of address |
| 1978 | Dorwin P. Cartwright | Theory and Practice |
| 1977 | Urie Bronfenbrenner | Lewinian Space and Ecological Substance |
| 1976 | Jessie Bernard | Homosociality, Solidarity, and Sex |
| 1975 | Isidor Chein | There Ought to be a Law--But Why? |
| 1974 | Donald T. Campbell | Qualitative Evaluation in Action Research |
| 1973 | Herbert C. Kelman | Violence without Moral Restraint: Reflections on the Dehumanization of Victims and Victimized |
| 1972 | Jerome D. Frank | Galloping Technology: A New Social Disease |
| 1971 | Charles E. Osgood | Exploration in Semantic Space: A Personal Diary |
| 1970 | R. Nevitt Sanford | Whatever Happened to Action Research? |
| 1969 | Ralph K. White | Three Not-So-Obvious Contributions of Psychology to Peace |
| 1968 | Morton Deutsch | Conflicts: Productive and Destructive |
| 1967 | Muzafer Sherif | If the Social Scientist Is to Be More Than a Mere Technician |
| 1966 | Daniel Katz | Group Process and Social Integration: A System Analysis of Two Movements of Social Protest |
| 1965 | Kenneth B. Clark | Problems of Power and Social Change: Toward a Relevant Social Psychology |
| 1964 | Alfred J. Marrow | Risks and Uncertainties in Action Research |
| 1963 | Roger G. Barker | On the Nature of the Environment |
| 1962 | Theodore M. Newcomb | The Persistence and Regression of Changed Attitudes: Long Range Studies |
| 1961 | Robert MacIver | Disturbed Youth and the Agencies |
| 1960 | Stuart Cook | The Systematic Analysis of Socially Significant Events: A Strategy for Social Research |
| 1959 | Fritz Heider | On Lewin's Method and Theory |
| 1958 | Research Center for Group Dynamics | Some Things Learned: An Evaluative History of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (Presented by Dorwin P. Cartwright) |
| 1957 | Lawrence K. Frank | Research for What? |
| 1956 | Otto Klineberg | The Role of the Psychologist in International Affairs |
| 1954 | Margaret Mead | Cultural Discontinuities and Personality Transformation |
| 1953 | Gardner Murphy | Human Potentialities |
| 1952 | Gunnar Myrdal | Psychological Impediments to Effective International Cooperation |
| 1951 | Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | Some Aspects of Social Process. (Presented by A. T. M. Wilson) |
| 1950 | Gordon Allport | Prejudice: A Problem in Psychological and Social Causation |
| 1949 | Edward C. Tolman | The Psychology of Social Learning |
| 1948 | George B. Chisholm | Social Responsibility |
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