Jordan B. Peterson
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Peterson at the University of Toronto, 2017
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June 12, 1962 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | Fairview High School |
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| Spouse(s) | Tammy Peterson |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | jordanbpeterson |
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| Fields | Psychology |
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| Thesis | Potential psychological markers for the predisposition to alcoholism (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert O. Pihl |
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999.
Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1997, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor.
In 2016, Peterson released a series of videos on his YouTube channel in which he criticized the Canadian government's Bill C-16. The videos sparked a controversy that received significant media coverage.
Peterson was born on June 12, 1962, and grew up in Fairview, Alberta, a small town northwest of his birthplace Edmonton. He was the eldest of three children born to Beverley, a librarian at the Fairview campus of Grande Prairie Regional College, and Walter Peterson, a schoolteacher. His middle name is Bernt (/bɛərnt/ BAIRNT), after his Norwegian great-grandfather.
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