2005 - Division 52's Denmark-Reuder Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Psychology of Women and Gender.
2003 - Distinguished Service Award. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
2000 - Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Women in Psychology.
1999 - Legacy Award [for carrying the torch for psychology in the Pittsburgh Community] by the Greater Pittsburgh Psychological Association.
1998 - Distinguished Publication Award. Association for Women in Psychology. Awarded for Co-edited special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly on the measurement of gender-role attitudes.
1998 - Elected as a Charter Fellow for Division 52 [International Psychology] of the American Psychological Association.
1998 - Faculty Exchange Program. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1994 - Fulbright Research Fellowship. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1992 - Included in Women's Heritage Exhibit highlighting the contributions of 100 women to psychology. For American Psychological Meeting, 1992.
1989 - Carolyn Wood Sherif Memorial Lectureship Award. Awarded by APA's Division 35 for Research, Teaching, and Mentoring.
1986 - Master Lecture for the American Psychological Association on "The Female Victim: Rape, Wife Battering, and Incest".
1984 - Distinguished career award by the Association for Women in Psychology.
1983 - Publication named by Social Citation Index as "Citation Classic", awarded for articles that have become "one most cited items in its field." [1971 Journal of Personality article].
Since 1979 - Selected for Who's Who of American Women.
1978 - Elected by Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association as a Fellow. Elected as Fellow to Division 9 in 1980 and to Division 8 in 1983.
1968-71 - NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship
1967 - Elected to Membership in Phi Beta Kappa
1966 - NSF Undergraduate Research Program Participant