Frank Jones Sulloway (born February 2, 1947) is an Americanpsychologist and historian of science.^[1] He is a visiting scholar at theInstitute of Personality and Social Research at theUniversity of California, Berkeley^[2] and a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology.^[3] After finishing secondary school atMoses Brown School inProvidence, Rhode Island,^[4] Sulloway studied atHarvard College and later earned a PhD in thehistory of science at Harvard.^[5] He was a visiting scholar at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.^[6]

He is known for his books,Freud, Biologist of the Mind (1979), which placed Freud and psychoanalysis in their historical and scientific contexts, andBorn to Rebel (1996), which argued thatbirth order exerts large effects on personality. InBorn to Rebel, Sulloway claimed that birth order had powerful effects on theBig Five personality traits. He argued that firstborns are moreconscientious and socially dominant, less agreeable, and less open to new ideas than are laterborns, who were "born to rebel".^[7] However, critics such as Fred Townsend,Toni Falbo, andJudith Rich Harris, dispute Sulloway's theories. A full issue ofPolitics and the Life Sciences, dated September, 2000 but not published until 2004^[8] 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.^[9]

His grandfather was the tennis player and attorneyFrank Sulloway (1883–1981).^[10]

• 1980Pfizer Award
• 1984MacArthur Fellows Program^[11]

• Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend. New York: Basic Books. 1983 [1979].ISBN 0233971777.
• Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Pantheon. 1996.ISBN 0679442324.
• Darwin and His Bears: How Darwin Bear and His Galápagos Islands Friends Inspired a Scientific Revolution. Blast Books. 2021.ISBN 978-0922233519.
• "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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