| 2026 | Winner | Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake | Judith Weisenfeld | New York University Press |
| 2026 | Winner | Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECT | George Kirov | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change | Linda Gask | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum | Carol Cleaveland, Michele Waslin | New York University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development | Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo, John E. Schulenberg | American Psychological Association |
| 2024 | Winner | Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities | Dennis H. Reid, Mary Rosswurm | Elsevier |
| 2023 | Winner | The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming: The Where, How, When, What, and Why of Dreams | G. William Domhoff | MIT Press |
| 2023 | Winner | What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and Composition | Elizabeth S. Spelke | Oxford University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice | Radosveta Dimitrova, David Lackland Sam,, Laura Ferrer Wreder | Oxford University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 | Diana Fosha | American Psychological Association |
| 2021 | Winner | Introduction to Social Neuroscience | Stephanie Cacioppo, John T. Cacioppo | Princeton University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement | Andrew Hadler, Stephen Sutton,, Lars Osterberg | Wiley |
| 2020 | Winner | Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny | Michael Tomasello | Harvard University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice | S. Nassir Ghaemi | Oxford University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Living on Death Row: The Psychology of Waiting to Die | Hans Toch, James P. Acker,, Vincent Martin Bonventre | American Psychological Association |
| 2019 | Winner | The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain | Nick Chater | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice | Chris Chambers | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions | Alexander Todorov | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | A Natural History of Human Morality | Michael Tomasello | Harvard University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Does your Family Make You Smarter? Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy | James R. Flynn | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy | Pratyusha Tummala-Narra | American Psychological Association |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | The Gardener and the Carpenter | Alison Gopnik | Macmillan |
| 2016 | Winner | The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease | Marc Lewis, PhD | PublicAffairs |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine | Andrew Scull | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms | Susan Golombok | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge | Frederick Toates | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | A Metaphysics of Psychopathology | Peter Zachar | MIT Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Me, Myself, and Us | Brian R. Little | PublicAffairs |
| 2012 | Winner | Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | Lee Jussim | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Coming of Age on Zoloft | Katherine Sharpe | HarperCollins |
| 2008 | Winner | Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth | Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, & the Creative Process | Richard M. Berlin, MD | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2007 | Winner | The Loss of Sadness | Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome Wakefield | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Winner | The Redemptive Self | Dan P. McAdams | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence | Edward A. Wasserman, Thomas R. Zentall | Oxford University Press |
| 2005 | Winner | Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness | Daniel C. Dennett | MIT Press |
| 2004 | Winner | Dr. Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language | Stephen R. Anderson | Yale University Press |
| 2004 | Honorable mention | On Apology | Aaron Lazarre | Oxford University Press |
| 2003 | Winner | Seeing and Visualizing | Zenon W. Pylyshyn | MIT Press |
| 2003 | Honorable mention | Remembering Trauma | Richard J. McNally | Harvard University Press |
| 2002 | Winner | Wounds Not Healed By Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness | Solomon Schimmel | Oxford University Press |
| 2002 | Honorable mention | Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth | Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner,, Richard D. Roberts | MIT Press |
| 1997 | Winner | Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Edited By: the late Joseph D. Noshpitz | Wiley |
| 1996 | Winner | The Anatomy of Prejudices | Elisabeth Young-Bruehl | Harvard University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes | David C. Rubin | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Honorable mention | Lessons From an Optical Illusion: On Nature and Nurture, Knowledge and Values | Edward M. Hundert | Harvard University Press |
| 1994 | Winner | The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement | Richard Noll | Princeton University Press |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding | Bernard J. Paris | Yale University Press |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser | David P. Celani | Columbia University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | The Lenses of Gender | Sandra Lipsitz Bem | Yale University Press |
| 1992 | Winner | The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific | Gananath Obeyesekere | Princeton University Press |