Nicholas Christenfeld was a former professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. He first joined the department in 1991 and has been a full professor since 2003.
Among other research, he has promulgated the Theory of Deadly Initials and the theory that infants resemble their fathers more closely than they do their mothers.[1] More recently, he studied the tendency of people to choose purebred dogs which resembled them.[2]
Education
- 1991 Ph.D. Columbia University. Thesis: Speech Disfluencies and the Effects of Mazes, Motives, and Metronomes.
- 1989 M.Phil. Columbia University.
- 1988 M.A. Columbia University. Thesis: Predicting Stock Market Predictions.
- 1985 B.A. Harvard College, cum laude with Highest Honors in Psychology.
References
- ^ Christenfeld, N., & Hill, E.A. (1995). Whose baby are you? Nature, 378, 669
- ^ Roy, M; N. Christenfeld (2004). "Do dogs resemble their owners?". Psychological Science (15): 361–363.