| Term of Presidency | President | Title of Address |
| 2021-2022 | Linda Silka | Problems We Can Only Solve Together |
| 2020-2021 | Keon West | Asking the Right Questions |
| 2019-2020 | Stephanie Fryberg | |
| 2018-2019 | Elizabeth Cole | Reflections on Power, Voice, and Free Speech |
| 2017-2018 | Wendy Williams | Considering Carnegie’s Legacy in the Time of Trump: A Science and Policy Agenda |
| 2016-2017 | Chris Crandall | Science as Dissent: The Practical Value of Basic and Applied Science |
| 2015-2016 | Susan Clayton | Social Issues and Personal Life: Considering the Environment |
| 2014-2015 | Alice Eagly | When Passionate Advocates Meet Social Science Data, Does the Honest Broker Stand a Chance? |
| 2013-2014 | Dominic Abrams | Beyond ‘Who is Prejudiced’: The Role of Extremity, Dangerous Deviance and Daring Dissent in Social Stasis and Change |
| 2012-2013 | Allen Omoto | Becoming a Social Issues Psychologist |
| 2011-2012 | Maureen O'Connor | Embodied Social Justice: Warm Tea, Flexed Muscles, and Enacting SPSSI’s Mission |
| 2010-2011 | James S. Jackson | SPSSI Then and Now: Charting a Future for Scientifically Informed Social Action |
| 2009-2010 | Eugene Borgida | Reflections of Schachter Grandson Working Under the Voodoo Spell of Lewinian Action Research |
| 2008-2009 | Susan Opotow | How This Was Possible: Interpreting the Holocaust |
| 2007-2008 | Daniel Perlman | Social Issues and Personal Relationships |
| 2006-2007 | Irene H. Frieze | Social Policy, Feminism, and Research on Violence in Close Relationships |
| 2005-2006 | Marybeth Shinn | Waltzing with a Monster: Bringing Research to Bear on Public Policy |
| 2003-2004 | James M. Jones | From Racial Inequality to Social Justice: The Legacy of Brown vs. Board and Lessons Learned from South Africa |
| 2004-2005 | Kay Deaux | A Nation of Immigrants: Living Our Legacy |
| 2002-2003 | Louis Penner | Volunteerism and Social Problems: Making Things Better or Worse? |
| 2001-2002 | Geoffrey Maruyama | Disparities in Educational Opportunities and Outcome: What Do We Know and What Can We Do? |
| 2000-2001 | Jennifer Crocker | The Costs of Seeking Self-Esteem |
| 1999-2000 | John F. Dovidio | On the nature of contemporary prejudice: The third wave |
| 1998-1999 | Rhoda Unger | Outsiders Inside: Positive Marginality and Social Change |
| 1997-1998 | Barbara Gutek | no address published |
| 1996-1997 | Dalmas Taylor | Affirmative action: A compelling state interest |
| 1995-1996 | Michele Andrisin Wittig | Taking affirmative action in education and employment |
| 1994-1995 | Virgina O'Leary | no address published |
| 1993-1994 | Stuart Oskamp | Applying social psychology to avoid ecological disaster |
| 1992-1993 | Sally A. Shumaker (address co-authored by Teresa Rust Smith) | The politics of women’s health |
| 1991-1992 | Faye J. Crosby | Why complain? |
| 1990-1991 | Stanley Sue | Ethnicity and mental health: Research and policy issues |
| 1989-1990 | Jacqueline D. Goodchilds | Whatever... |
| 1988-1989 | Seymour Feshbach | Psychology, human violence, and the search for peace: Issues in Science and social values |
| 1987-1988 | Jeffrey Z. Rubin | Some wise and mistaken assumptions about conflict and negotiation |
| 1986-1987 | Phyllis Katz | Children and Social Issues |
| 1985-1986 | Joseph McGrath | Continuity and change: Time, method, and the study of social issue |
| 1984-1985 | Marilynn Brewer | Experimental research and social policy: Must it be rigor versus relevance? |
| 1983-1984 | Lois Wladis Hoffman | The changing genetics/socialization balance |
| 1982-1983 | Martha T. Mednick | SPSSI, advocacy for social change, and the future: A historical look |
| 1981-1982 | Clara Mayo | no address published |
| 1980-1981 | Leonard Bickman | The Evaluation of Prevention Programs |
| 1979-1980 | Cynthia Deutsch | The Behavioral Scientist: Insider and Outsider |
| 1978-1979 | June Louin Tapp | Psychological and Policy Perspectives on the Law: Reflections on a Decade |
| 1977-1978 | Lawrence Wrightsman | The American Trial Jury on Trial: Empirical Evidence and Procedural Modifications |
| 1976-1977 | Ezra Stotland | White Collar Criminals |
| 1975-1976 | Harry Triandis | The Future of Pluralism |
| 1974-1975 | Albert Pepitone | Social Psychological Perspectives on Crime and Punishment |
| 1973-1674 | Bertram Raven | The Nixon Group |
| 1972-1973 | Harold Proshansky | The Environmental Crisis in Human Dignity |
| 1971-1972 | Marcia Guttentag | Children in Harlem's Community Controlled Schools |
| 1970-1971 | Robert Kahn | The Justification of Violence: Social Problems and Social Solutions |
| 1969-1970 | Robert Chin | no address published |
| 1968-1969 | Martin Deutsch | Organizational and Conceptual Barriers to Social Change |
| 1967-1968 | Thomas Pettigrew | Racially Separate or Together? |
| 1966-1967 | Milton Rokeach | A Theory of Organization and Change within Value-Attitude Systems |
| 1965-1966 | Jerome Frank | Galloping technology: A new social disease |
| 1964-1965 | Herb Kelman | The social consequences of social research: A new social issue |
| 1963-1964 | Jerome Bruner | Education as a social invention |
| 1962-1963 | John French | The social environment and mental health |
| 1958-1959 | M. Brewster Smith | no address published |
| 1957-1958 | Nevitt Sanford | no address published |
| 1952-1953 | Dorwin Cartwright | no address published |
| 1951-1952 | Stuart Cook | no address published |
| 1943-1944 | Gordon Allport | no address published |
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