Bruno Klopfer Award

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]

  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.