Albert Bandura

Over the lifetime, he has been conferred with sixteen honorary doctorate degrees from various universities including University of British Columbia, Alfred University, the University of Rome, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Salamanca in Spain, Indiana University, the University of New Brunswick, Penn State University, Leiden University, and Freie Universitat Berlin, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Universitat Jaume I in Spain, the University of Athens and the University of Catania.

In 1974, he was elected to serve as the 82nd President of the American Psychological Association

In 1980, he was elected as the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Same year, he received an award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association for pioneering the research in the field of self-regulated learning.

In 1999, he was bestowed with the Thorndike Award for Distinguished Contributions of Psychology to Education.

In 2001, he was conferred with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Advancement of Behavior Therapy. The Western Psychological Association also bestowed upon him a similar award.

The American Psychological Society presented him with the James McKeen Cattell Award, while the American Psychological Foundation presented him with the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Psychological Science

For his relentless contribution to psychology, in 2008, he was presented with the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award.