Nora Newcombe has been awarded the Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for General Psychology. This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to general psychology by incorporating and integrating multiple perspectives from psychology's sub-disciplines into their research, theory and/or practice.

Nora has also been chosen to receive the Psychonomic Society's 2020 Distinguished Leadership Award. The award is given in recognition of Nora's significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology, her demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the discipline, and her commitment and dedication to developing and advancing the Psychonomic Society in its mission to foster the science of cognition through the advancement and communication of basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.