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. Robert F. Bornstein!

Robert F. Bornstein received his PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986, and is University Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University. Dr. Bornstein has published numerous articles and book chapters on personality assessment, personality dynamics, diagnosis, and treatment. He wrote The Dependent Personality (1993),The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide (2005), Elements of Personality: Discovering Connections (2024), and coedited with Joseph Masling six volumes of the Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories book series. Dr. Bornstein is a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, American Psychological Association, and American Psychological Society; his research has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. He received SPA's Walter Klopfer and Martin Mayman awards for contributions to the personality assessment literature, the American Psychological Association Division 12 Section IX (Assessment Psychology) Distinguished Contribution Award, and the American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon Award for Excellence in Personality Research.