Frank Sulloway
American psychologist

Frank Sulloway

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American psychologist
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2 February 1947(Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, U.S.A.)
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Frank J. Sulloway (born 1947) is an American psychologist. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology. After finishing secondary school at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, Sulloway studied at Harvard College and later earned a PhD in the history of science at Harvard. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is best known for his claim that birth order exerts large effects on personality, and the subsequent debates about this issue.

Awards

  • 1980 Pfizer Award
  • 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program

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