Bruno Klopfer Award
The Bruno Klopfer Award is bestowed annually for outstanding, long-term professional contribution to the field of personality assessment.
Meet the 2021 Bruno Klopfer Award Winner, Dr. Aaron Pincus!
Aaron L. Pincus, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and licensed psychologist at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). Dr. Pincus received his B.S. in psychology from the University of California—Davis, his M.A. in personality psychology from the University of California—Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Pincus’ has published over 200 articles and chapters on personality assessment, personality disorders, interpersonal functioning, and the structure of psychopathology. He is the former editor-in-chief of Assessment and a member of the APA task force on psychological assessment training in health service psychology. He is an author of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumplex Scales (IIP-C) and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI). Dr. Pincus is a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, a recipient of the Theodore Millon Award for contributions to personality psychology, and a member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Consortium.
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 |