Bruno Klopfer Award
The Bruno Klopfer Award is bestowed annually for outstanding, long-term professional contribution to scholarship in the field of personality assessment. The award honors a lifetime of active and impactful research related to personality assessment and psychological test development.
Meet the Bruno Klopfer Award Winner, Dr. Yossef S. Ben-Porath!
Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. He received his doctoral training at the University of Minnesota and has been involved extensively in MMPI research for the past 37 years. He is a co-developer of the MMPI-3, MMPI-2-RF, and MMPI-A-RF and co-author of test manuals, books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI instruments. Former Editor-in-Chief of the journals Assessment and Psychological Assessment, Dr. Ben-Porath is a board-certified psychologist (American Board of Professional Psychology-Clinical) whose clinical practice involves supervision of assessments at Kent State’s Psychological Clinic, consultation to agencies that screen candidates for public safety positions, and provision of consultation and expert witness services in forensic cases
Bruno Klopfer Award Winners
View All Previous Award Winners Below.
| Year | Outstanding Lifetime Contribution |
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2021 |
Aaron Pincus |
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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 |
| 2012 | David 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 |
| 2000 | Auke Tellegen |
| 1999 | Jack Block |
| 1998 | David C. McClelland |
| 1997 | Joseph M. Masling |
| 1996 | Paul M. Lerner |
| 1995 | S. Philip Erdberg |
| 1994 | W. Grant Dahlstrom |
| 1993 | Jane Loevinger |
| 1992 | Lee J. Cronbach |
| 1991 | Leopold Bellak |
| 1990 | Charles D. 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. Schneidman |
| 1975 | Silvan S. Tomkins |
| 1974 | Louise Bates Ames |
| 1973 | William E. Henry |
| 1972 | Molly R. Harrower |
| 1971 | Zygmunt A. Piotrowski |
| 1970 | Marguerite R. Hertz |
| 1969 | Robert R. Holt |
| 1967 | Henry A. Murray |
| 1966 | Bruno Klopfer |
| 1965 | Samuel G. Beck |