Paul Joseph Frick is an American psychologist and the

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Memorial Chair in

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(LSU), as well as a professor at the Learning Sciences Institute of Australia at

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. He is known for his research on

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and

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in children, which he has been studying for over twenty years.

Biography

Frick was educated at Louisiana State University and the

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. While still training to become a

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, he changed his mind after deciding that treatments for child aggression were not effective enough, so instead he chose to study the causes of such behavior. Before joining the faculty of LSU in 2015, he was a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at the

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, where he was chair of the psychology department from 2007 to 2015. He was the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy from 2009 to 2011, and

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of the '' Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology'' from 2007 to 2011. Since 2018, he has been editor-in-chief of the ''

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''. In 2015, he received the Robert D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

References

External links

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