Frank J Sulloway
Biographic Data
| ID | 94141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank J Sulloway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sulloway |
| SIGNATURE | SULLOWAY F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3582-9348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 890 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Principles of emotional expression
Darwin Mythology
Attributes of conscientiousness throughout the animal kingdom
Conscientiousness is a fundamental aspect of human personality, one that is closely linked with various favorable life outcomes. Despite its importance in humans, conscientiousness has received little attention as to how it may have evolved, or whether it provides similar fitness benefits in other animals. To date, research in animal personality has found consistent support for the presence of all major dimensions of human personality in other an…
Birth Order and Parental Investment
Sibling-Order Effects
Birth order and sibling competition
Sibling competition is widespread in the natural world, and sometimes ends in siblicide. Birth order among siblings affects the outcome of such contests, because it is a proxy for disparities in age, size, power, and opportunity. In humans, birth order combines with the prolonged period of childhood dependence on parents to promote differences in parental investment. In addition, siblings often occupy different niches within the family and employ…
Exceptions that prove the rule--Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies
A meta-analysis by J. T. Jost, J. Glaser, A. W. Kruglanski, and F. J. Sulloway (2003) concluded that political conservatism is partially motivated by the management of uncertainty and threat. In this reply to J. Greenberg and E. Jonas (2003), conceptual issues are clarified, numerous political anomalies are explained, and alleged counterexamples are incorporated with a dynamic model that takes into account differences between “young” and “old” mo…
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: dea…
Parental investment
The equity heuristic is a decision rule specifying that parents should attempt to subdivide resources more or less equally among their children. This investment rule coincides with the prescription from optimality models in economics and biology in cases in which expected future return for each offspring is equal. In this article, the authors present a counterintuitive implication of the equity heuristic: Whereas an equity motive produces a fair …
Born to Rebel and Its Critics
Frederic Townsend's critique of Born to Rebel (Sulloway, 1996) is based on an unfortunate pattern of misrepresentation and faulty empirical methods. First, the historical data in Born to Rebel are neither unrepresentative nor undisclosed. They were compiled with the help of 110 expert raters, who validated their representative nature and operationalized the principal outcome measures. Second, birth order is moderately associated with political ra…
Reconceptualizing the Influence of Birth Order
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the various commentators for their remarks about Born to Rebel , including some of the constructive criticisms of my research findings and conclusions. No book trying to set forth more than two decades of research on why historical figures as diverse as Martin Luther and Charles Darwin behaved the way they did can expect to pass muster without exception. At best, one hopes that any problems that come to …
Born to Rebel
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Frank J. Sulloway. New York: Pantheon Books. 1996. 653 pp. ISBN 0-67944232-4. $16.00. Born to Rebel is a lengthy and ambitious book. Apart from its main story, 70 of its 653 pages devoted to appendices, 96 to end notes, and 84 to an extensive bibliography. Furthermore, the reader is confronted with many tables and a collection of remarkable illustrations. Its author's central argume…
Born to rebel
Why are individuals from the same family often no more similar in personality than those from different families? Why, within the same family, do some children conform to authority whereas others rebel? The family, it turns out, is not a "shared environment" but rather a set of niches that provide siblings with different outlooks. At the heart of this pioneering inquiry into human development is a fundamental insight: that the personalities of si…
Freud, biologist of the mind
Freud-Bibliographie mit Werkkonkordanz. Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo , Gerhard Fichtner
Reassessing Freud's Case Histories
Freud, Biologist of the Mind
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: dea…
Exceptions that prove the rule--Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies
A meta-analysis by J. T. Jost, J. Glaser, A. W. Kruglanski, and F. J. Sulloway (2003) concluded that political conservatism is partially motivated by the management of uncertainty and threat. In this reply to J. Greenberg and E. Jonas (2003), conceptual issues are clarified, numerous political anomalies are explained, and alleged counterexamples are incorporated with a dynamic model that takes into account differences between “young” and “old” mo…
Parental investment
The equity heuristic is a decision rule specifying that parents should attempt to subdivide resources more or less equally among their children. This investment rule coincides with the prescription from optimality models in economics and biology in cases in which expected future return for each offspring is equal. In this article, the authors present a counterintuitive implication of the equity heuristic: Whereas an equity motive produces a fair …
Reassessing Freud's Case Histories
Born to Rebel and Its Critics
Frederic Townsend's critique of Born to Rebel (Sulloway, 1996) is based on an unfortunate pattern of misrepresentation and faulty empirical methods. First, the historical data in Born to Rebel are neither unrepresentative nor undisclosed. They were compiled with the help of 110 expert raters, who validated their representative nature and operationalized the principal outcome measures. Second, birth order is moderately associated with political ra…
Reconceptualizing the Influence of Birth Order
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the various commentators for their remarks about Born to Rebel , including some of the constructive criticisms of my research findings and conclusions. No book trying to set forth more than two decades of research on why historical figures as diverse as Martin Luther and Charles Darwin behaved the way they did can expect to pass muster without exception. At best, one hopes that any problems that come to …
Freud, Biologist of the Mind
Reassessing Freud's Case Histories
Freud, biologist of the mind
Freud-Bibliographie mit Werkkonkordanz. Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo , Gerhard Fichtner
Born to rebel
Why are individuals from the same family often no more similar in personality than those from different families? Why, within the same family, do some children conform to authority whereas others rebel? The family, it turns out, is not a "shared environment" but rather a set of niches that provide siblings with different outlooks. At the heart of this pioneering inquiry into human development is a fundamental insight: that the personalities of si…
Born to Rebel
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Frank J. Sulloway. New York: Pantheon Books. 1996. 653 pp. ISBN 0-67944232-4. $16.00. Born to Rebel is a lengthy and ambitious book. Apart from its main story, 70 of its 653 pages devoted to appendices, 96 to end notes, and 84 to an extensive bibliography. Furthermore, the reader is confronted with many tables and a collection of remarkable illustrations. Its author's central argume…
Born to Rebel and Its Critics
Frederic Townsend's critique of Born to Rebel (Sulloway, 1996) is based on an unfortunate pattern of misrepresentation and faulty empirical methods. First, the historical data in Born to Rebel are neither unrepresentative nor undisclosed. They were compiled with the help of 110 expert raters, who validated their representative nature and operationalized the principal outcome measures. Second, birth order is moderately associated with political ra…
Reconceptualizing the Influence of Birth Order
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the various commentators for their remarks about Born to Rebel , including some of the constructive criticisms of my research findings and conclusions. No book trying to set forth more than two decades of research on why historical figures as diverse as Martin Luther and Charles Darwin behaved the way they did can expect to pass muster without exception. At best, one hopes that any problems that come to …
Parental investment
The equity heuristic is a decision rule specifying that parents should attempt to subdivide resources more or less equally among their children. This investment rule coincides with the prescription from optimality models in economics and biology in cases in which expected future return for each offspring is equal. In this article, the authors present a counterintuitive implication of the equity heuristic: Whereas an equity motive produces a fair …
Exceptions that prove the rule--Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies
A meta-analysis by J. T. Jost, J. Glaser, A. W. Kruglanski, and F. J. Sulloway (2003) concluded that political conservatism is partially motivated by the management of uncertainty and threat. In this reply to J. Greenberg and E. Jonas (2003), conceptual issues are clarified, numerous political anomalies are explained, and alleged counterexamples are incorporated with a dynamic model that takes into account differences between “young” and “old” mo…
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: dea…
Birth order and sibling competition
Sibling competition is widespread in the natural world, and sometimes ends in siblicide. Birth order among siblings affects the outcome of such contests, because it is a proxy for disparities in age, size, power, and opportunity. In humans, birth order combines with the prolonged period of childhood dependence on parents to promote differences in parental investment. In addition, siblings often occupy different niches within the family and employ…
Sibling-Order Effects
Birth Order and Parental Investment
Attributes of conscientiousness throughout the animal kingdom
Conscientiousness is a fundamental aspect of human personality, one that is closely linked with various favorable life outcomes. Despite its importance in humans, conscientiousness has received little attention as to how it may have evolved, or whether it provides similar fitness benefits in other animals. To date, research in animal personality has found consistent support for the presence of all major dimensions of human personality in other an…
Darwin Mythology
Principles of emotional expression
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