LTG (Ret) David Huntoon Selected for American Psychological Association Award

Spectrum Member Dave Huntoon has been selected by the American Psychological Association’s Society for Military Psychology’s 2016 Robert M. Yerkes Award. This award is given for significant contributions to military psychology by a non-psychologist, and named for Robert M. Yerkes, the “Founding Father” of military psychology. Yerkes (1876-1956) had a distinguished career as a comparative psychologist first at Harvard University and later at Yale. As the President of the APA in 1917, Yerkes led the application of psychology to the demands of World War I in the development and use of the Army Alpha and Beta Tests, the first large-scale application of psychological testing. The 2016 Yerkes award to Huntoon was based principally on his contributions to military psychology as the Commandant of the US Army War College, from 2003 to 2008. There he significantly expanded the work of the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute (APFRI), extending its holistic fitness and psychological resilience programs to other leader development institutions in the US military in support of the current generation of serving veterans from the Allied campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Previous recipients of the Robert M. Yerkes Military Psychology Award include Senator Daniel Inouye, Senator Elizabeth Dole, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and General Max Thurman.

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