__NOTOC__ Frank Jones Sulloway (born February 2, 1947) is an American

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and historian of science. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the

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and a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology. After finishing secondary school at Moses Brown School in

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, Sulloway studied at

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and later earned a PhD in the

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at Harvard. He was a visiting scholar at the

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. He is known for his books, '' Freud, Biologist of the Mind'' (1979), which placed Freud and psychoanalysis in their historical and scientific contexts, and '' Born to Rebel'' (1996), which argued that

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exerts large effects on personality. In ''Born to Rebel'', Sulloway claimed that birth order had powerful effects on the Big Five personality traits. He argued that firstborns are more conscientious and socially dominant, less agreeable, and less open to new ideas than are laterborns, who were "born to rebel". Sulloway showed that " terborn scientists were more likely to support revolutions in science. For example, of scientists prominent in the controversy over Darwinism between 1859 and 1875, laterborns were 4.6 times more likely than firstborns to be supporters rather than opponents of Darwinism". However, critics such as Fred Townsend,

Toni Falbo Toni Falbo (born 1947) is a social psychologist known for her research on power dynamics in relationships, sibling status, and development of only children. She is a professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Research Affiliate of the Popu ...

, and Judith Rich Harris, dispute Sulloway's theories. A full issue of ''Politics and the Life Sciences'', dated September, 2000 but not published until 2004 due to legal threats from Sulloway, contains carefully and rigorously researched criticisms of Sulloway's theories and data. Subsequent large independent multi-cohort studies have revealed approximately zero-effect of birth order on personality. His grandfather was the tennis player and attorney Frank Sulloway (1883–1981).

Awards

*1980 Pfizer Award *1984 MacArthur Fellows Program

Books

* * * * "Psychoanalysis and Pseudoscience: Frank Sulloway Revisits Freud and His Legacy", in Dufresne, Todd. ''Against Freud: Critics Talk Back''. Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 44-69 ( Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen interviews Sulloway.)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sulloway, Frank 1947 births Living people 21st-century American psychologists MacArthur Fellows Harvard College alumni Moses Brown School alumni 20th-century American psychologists