The G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology is made by the American Psychological Association in recognition of advanced and influential work in developmental psychology. It is named in honor of G. Stanley Hall.

Recipients include:

• 1967 Helen L. Koch, Harold M. Skeels
• 1968 Mary Cover Jones, Lois Meek Stolz
• 1969 Roger Barker, Robert R. Sears
• 1970 Eleanor J. Gibson, Orvis C. Irwin
• 1971 Nancy Bayley, Jean Piaget
• 1972 Margaret Harlow, Harry Harlow, Jean MacFarlane
• 1973 Roger W. Brown, John W. M. Whiting
• 1974 John Bowlby
• 1975 Jerome Bruner
• 1976 Joseph McVicker Hunt
• 1977 Harriet Rheingold
• 1978 Alfred Baldwin
• 1979 Edward Zigler
• 1980 Sidney W. Bijou
• 1981 George D. Stoddard, Lois Barclay Murphy
• 1982 Frances Graham, Eleanor Maccoby
• 1983 Marjori Honzik, Donald O. Hebb
• 1984 Erik H. Erikson, Mary D. S. Ainsworth
• 1985 Urie Bronfenbrenner
• 1986 John H. Flavell, E. Mavis Hetherington
• 1987 Marian Yadke-Yarrow
• 1988 Harold Stevenson, Diana Baumrind
• 1989 Jacqueline J. Goodnow
• 1990 Jack Block, Jeanne Humphrey Block
• 1991 No Award
• 1992 Willard Hartup
• 1993 Norman Garmezy
• 1994 Robert A. Hinde
• 1995 Jerome Kagan
• 1996 Ross Parke
• 1997 Lois Bloom
• 1998 Gerald Patterson
• 1999 Robert Cairns
• 2000 Marshall Haith
• 2001 Arnold Sameroff
• 2002 Janellen Huttenlocher
• 2003 Peter Jusczyk
• 2004 Michael Rutter
• 2005 Dante Cicchetti, Judith Dunn
• 2006 Megan Gunnar
• 2007 Nora Newcombe, Alan Sroufe
• 2008 Katherine Nelson