Dr. Robert J. Sternberg is a psychometrician and psychologist from the United States. He is a Cornell University Professor of Human Development.

Sternberg earned a BA and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he was advised by Gordon Bower. He has received honorary doctorates from two North American institutions, one South American university, one Asian university, and nine European universities, as well as an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is a Distinguished Associate of the University of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Centre.