Bruno Klopfer Award Explained

The Bruno Klopfer Award is an award for lifetime achievement in personality psychology managed by the Society for Personality Assessment.[1] It is the Society's most prestigious award and is named after the Society's founder Bruno Klopfer.[2]

It was first awarded in 1965 as the "Great Man Award", but was renamed in 1970 after it was bestowed on a woman.[3]

Recipients

Source: The Society for Personality Assessment

YearRecipient
2023Gregory J. Meyer
2022Yossef S. Ben-Porath
2021Aaron Lee Pincus
2020R. Michael Bagby
2019Judith Armstrong
2018Thomas Widiger
2017Leslie Morey
2016Robert D. Hare
2015John Graham
2014Phebe Cramer
2013Robert R. McCrae
2012David L. Shapiro
2011Stephen E. Finn
2010Roger L. Greene
2009Lewis R. Goldberg
2008Leonard Handler
2007Lorna Smith Benjamin
2006Constance T. Fischer
2005George Stricker
2004James N. Butcher
2003Alex Caldwell
2002Jerry S. Wiggins
2001Theodore Millon
2000Auke Tellegen
1999Jack Block
1998David C. McClelland
1997Joseph M. Masling
1996Paul M. Lerner
1995S. Philip Erdberg
1994W. Grant Dahlstrom
1993Jane Loevinger
1992Lee J. Cronbach
1991Leopold Bellak
1990Charles Donald Spielberger
1989Sidney J. Blatt
1988Wayne H. Holtzman
1987Harrison G. Gough
1986Walter G. Klopfer
1985Stephen A. Appelbaum
1984Richard H. Dana
1983Irving B. Weiner
1982Gordon F. Derner
1981Martin Mayman
1980John E. Exner, Jr.
1979Paul E. Meehl
1978Roy Schafer
1977Albert I. Rabin
1976Edwin S. Shneidman
1975Silvan S. Tomkins
1974Louise Bates Ames
1973William E. Henry
1972Molly Harrower
1971Zygmunt A. Piotrowski[4]
1970Marguerite R. Hertz[5]
1969Robert R. Holt[6]
1967Henry A. Murray
1966Bruno Klopfer
1965Samuel Jacob Beck[7]

See also

References

  1. "The Bruno Klopfer, Walter G. Klopfer, and Martin Mayman Awards", Journal of Personality Assessment, 95:6, 553–555,
  2. Virginia Brabender. "Society for Personality Assessment". Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology.
  3. Edwin Inglee Megargee, Charles Donald Spielberger (1992). "Personality Assessment in America". Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pg. 5.
  4. Piotrowski . Zygmunt . 1971 . Address by Recipient of Great Man Award: A Rational Explanation of the Irrational: Freud's and Jung's Own Dreams Reinterpreted . . 35 . 6 . 503–523 . 10.1080/00223891.1971.10119708 .
  5. Ames . Louise . 1970 . Great Man Award Dr. Marguerite R. Hertz . . 34 . 6 . 445–448 . 10.1080/0091651X.1970.10380286 .
  6. Molish . H. Barry . 1969 . Great Man Award: Robert R. Holt . . 33 . 4 . 302–310 . 10.1080/0091651X.1969.10380152 .
  7. Klopfer . Walter . Wyatt . Frederic . Albert . Rabin . 1965 . Samuel Jacob Beck — Citation . . 29 . 4 . 414–417 . 10.1080/0091651X.1965.10120231 .

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