Society for Personality Assessment

Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) is the largest psychological society focused on personality assessment.[1] It was founded in 1937 by Bruno Klopfer as the Rorschach Institute, renamed as The Society for Projective Tests and the Rorschach Institute in 1948, shortened to The Society for Projective Techniques in 1960, and given its current name in 1971.[2]

It publishes the Journal of Personality Assessment and manages several awards, including the Bruno Klopfer Award.

  1. ^ Society for Personality Assessment official website.
  2. ^ Staff writer (Dec. 1980). "The Society for Personality Assessment." Journal of Personality Assessment, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 661-662. doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa4406_22.