to distinguished Canadian psychologists. The award is presented yearly to a person who has made a significant contribution to promoting the discipline of psychology as a science by conducting research, by teaching and leadership, or as a spokesperson. The inaugural award was presented to Hebb in 1980.

In 2011, he was posthumously inducted into the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Discovery Centre's Hall of Fame. At a 2011 meeting of the executive council of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry