The Bruno Klopfer Award is an award for lifetime achievement in

personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * construction of a c ...

managed by the Society for Personality Assessment. It is the Society's most prestigious award and is named after the Society's founder Bruno Klopfer. It was first awarded in 1965 as the "Great Man Award", but was renamed in 1970 after it was bestowed on a woman.

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{, border="1" , Year , Recipient , - , 2020 , R. Michael Bagby , - , 2019 , Judith Armstrong , - , 2018 , Thomas Widiger , - , 2017 , Leslie Morey , - , 2016 , Robert D. Hare , - , 2015 , John Graham , - , 2014 , Phebe Cramer , - , 2013 ,

Robert R. McCrae Robert Roger McCrae (born April 28, 1949) is a personality psychologist. He earned his Ph.D in 1976, and worked at the National Institute of Aging. He is associated with the Five Factor Theory of personality. He has spent his career studying the ...

, - , 2012 , David L. Shapiro , - , 2011 , Stephen E. Finn , - , 2010 , Roger L. Greene , - , 2009 , Lewis R. Goldberg , - , 2008 , Leonard Handler , - , 2007 , Lorna Smith Benjamin , - , 2006 , Constance T. Fischer , - , 2005 , George Stricker , - , 2004 , James N. Butcher , - , 2003 , Alex Caldwell , - , 2002 , Jerry S. Wiggins , - , 2001 ,

Theodore Millon Theodore Millon () (August 18, 1928 – January 29, 2014) was an American psychologist known for his work on personality disorders. He founded the ''Journal of Personality Disorders'' and was the inaugural president of the International Society ...

, - , 2000 ,

Auke Tellegen Auke Tellegen (born 1930) is a psychologist who served as a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1999. He worked on assessment, developing the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and contributed to the Minnes ...

, - , 1999 ,

Jack Block Jacob "Jack" Block (April 28, 1924 – January 13, 2010) was a psychology professor at UC Berkeley. His main areas of research were personality theory, personality development, research methodology, personality assessment, longitudinal resear ...

, - , 1998 ,

David C. McClelland David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for th ...

, - , 1997 , Joseph M. Masling , - , 1996 , Paul M. Lerner , - , 1995 , S. Philip Erdberg , - , 1994 , W. Grant Dahlstrom , - , 1993 ,

Jane Loevinger Jane Loevinger Weissman (February 6, 1918 – January 4, 2008) was an American developmental psychologist who developed a theory of personality which emphasized the gradual internalization of social rules and the maturing conscience for the origi ...

, - , 1992 , Lee J. Cronbach , - , 1991 ,

Leopold Bellak Leopold Bellak (1916–2000) was a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist who pioneered the Children's Apperception Test (CAT). He also collaborated on the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), on clinical psychological assessments, and pioneer ...

, - , 1990 , Charles Donald Spielberger , - , 1989 , Sidney J. Blatt , - , 1988 , Wayne H. Holtzman , - , 1987 , Harrison G. Gough , - , 1986 , Walter G. Klopfer , - , 1985 , Stephen A. Appelbaum , - , 1984 , Richard H. Dana , - , 1983 , Irving B. Weiner , - , 1982 , Gordon F. Derner , - , 1981 , Martin Mayman , - , 1980 , John E. Exner, Jr. , - , 1979 , Paul E. Meehl , - , 1978 , Roy Schafer , - , 1977 , Albert I. Rabin , - , 1976 , Edwin S. Shneidman , - , 1975 , Silvan S. Tomkins , - , 1974 , Louise Bates Ames , - , 1973 , William E. Henry , - , 1972 , Molly Harrower , - , 1971 , Zygmunt A. Piotrowski , - , 1970 , Marguerite R. Hertz , - , 1969 , Robert R. Holt , - , 1967 ,

Henry A. Murray Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and under ...

, - , 1966 , Bruno Klopfer , - , 1965 , Samuel Jacob Beck{{cite journal , last1=Klopfer , first1=Walter , last2=Wyatt , first2=Frederic , first3=Albert , last3=Rabin , date=1965 , title=Samuel Jacob Beck — Citation , journal= Journal of Projective Techniques and Personality Assessment , volume=29 , issue=4 , pages=414-417 , doi=10.1080/0091651X.1965.10120231

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American psychology awards Awards established in 1965

Recipients

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