As an advanced graduate student at Michigan, Goldberg met
Warren T Norman , a new assistant professor, who became a lifelong friend and collaborator on issues in personality structure and assessment. Their initial work together on the generality of the Big 5, and their subsequent work on the
lexical hypothesis has had a major impact upon the development of a consensual model of personality. After receiving his doctorate, Goldberg became a visiting assistant professor at
Stanford University. Since 1960 he has taught at the
University of Oregon, where he is professor emeritus. He is a senior scientist at the
Oregon Research Institute, where he has carried out research since 1961. From 1962 to 1966, Goldberg served as a field selection officer for the United States
Peace Corps. In 1966 he became a
Fulbright professor at the
University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 1970 he spent a year as a visiting professor at the
University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he was a Fulbright professor again, at
Istanbul University in Turkey. From 1980 to 1986 he served as a consultant in the Intelligence Division of the
United States Secret Service. He was a fellow at the
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study from 1981 to 1982. Goldberg has published more than 150 research articles. He has also earned three lifetime achievement awards: the
Jack Block Award for outstanding contributions to personality research from the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) (2006), the Saul Sells Award for outstanding contributions to multivariate research from the
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) (2006), and most recently the
Bruno Klopfer Award for outstanding contributions to personality assessment from the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) (2009). ==Personality structure and measurement==