Frank J. Sulloway is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Institute for Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
He conducts research in (1) evolutionary psychology, (2) ecology and evolutionary biology, and (3) the history of science.
Early Life and Educational Background
Sulloway was born on February 2, 1947 in Concord, New Hampshire. He earned his A.B., summa cum laude, in History and Science from Harvard University in 1969. He received his A.M. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) in the history of science from this same university. During his time at Harvard, Sulloway’s interests in Darwin and evolutionary biology were stimulated by his contact with Edward O. Wilson and especially Ernst Mayr (Sulloway 2001a, 2005b). Sulloway was also mentored by Jerome Kagan, a psychologist known for his seminal work on the development of personality and temperament from infancy to adulthood.
Professional Career
While at Harvard, Sulloway...
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Selected Bibliography
Cioffi, F. (1974). Was Freud a liar? The Listener, 91, 172–174.
Colombelli-Négrel, D., Robertson, J., Sulloway, F. J., & Kleindorfer, S. (2010). Extended parental care of fledglings: Parent birds adjust anti-predator response according to predator type and distance. Behaviour, 147, 853–870. https://doi.org/10.1163/000579510X495771.
Colombelli-Négrel, D., Hauber, M. E., Robertson, J., Sulloway, F. J., Hoi, H., Griggio, M., & Kleindorfer, S. (2012). Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology, 22, 2155–2160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.025.
Ellenberger, H. F. (1970). The discovery of the unconscious: The history and evolution of dynamic psychology. New York: Basic Books.
Galligan, T. H., Donnellan, S. C., Sulloway, F. J., Fitch, A. J., Bertozzi, T., & Kleindorfer, S. (2012). Panmixia supports adaptive divergence with gene flow in Darwin’s small ground finch, Geospiza fuliginosa, on Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands. Molecular Ecology, 21, 2106–2115. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05511.x.
Grant, P. R., & Grant, B. R. (2014). Evolutionary biology: Speciation undone. Nature, 507, 178–179. https://doi.org/10.1038/507178b.
Grunbaum, A. (1984). The foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical critique. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hertwig, R., Davis, J. N., & Sulloway, F. J. (2002). Parental investment: How an equality motive can produce inequality. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 728–745. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.128.5.728.
Jacobs, L. F., Arter, J., Cook, A., & Sulloway, F. J. (2015). Olfactory orientation and navigation in humans. PLoS ONE, 10(6), 1–12: e0129387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129387.
Jost, J. T., Glaser, J. T., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339–375. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.339.
Kleindorfer, S., & Sulloway, F. J. (2016). Naris deformation in Darwin’s Finches: Experimental and historical evidence for a post-1960s arrival of the parasite Philornis downsi. Global Ecology and Conservation, 7, 122–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2016.05.006.
Kleindorfer, S., Chapman, T. W., Winkler, H., & Sulloway, F. J. (2006). Adaptive divergence in continuous populations of Darwin’s small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa). Evolutionary Ecology Research, 8, 357–372. http://www.evolutionary-ecology.com/issues/v08n02/mmar1848.pdf.
Kleindorfer, S., Sulloway, F. J., & O’Connor, J. (2009). Mixed species nesting associations in Darwin’s tree finches: Nesting pattern predicts predation outcome. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 98, 313–324. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01264.x.
Kleindorfer, S., O’Connor, J., Dudaniec, R. Y., Myers, S. A., Robertson, J., & Sulloway, F. J. (2014). Species collapse via hybridization in Darwin’s Tree Finches. American Naturalist, 183, 325–341. https://doi.org/10.1086/674899.
Kleindorfer, S., Peters, K. J., Hohl, L., & Sulloway, F. J. (2016). Flight behaviour of an introduced parasite affects its Galápagos Island hosts: Philornis downsi and Darwin’s Finches. In J. S. Weis & D. Sol (Eds.), Biological invasions and animal behaviour (pp. 158–179). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
O’Connor, J. A., Sulloway, F. J., & Kleindorfer, S. (2010a). Avian population survey in the Floreana highlands: Is the Medium Tree Finch declining in remnant patches of Scalesia forest? Bird Conservation International, 20, 343–353. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270910000195.
O’Connor, J. A., Sulloway, F. J., Robertson, J., & Kleindorfer, S. (2010b). Philornis downsi parasitism is the primary cause of nestling mortality in the critically endangered medium tree finch (Camarhynchus pauper). Biodiversity and Conservation, 19, 853–866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-009-9740-1.
Osborne, D. 2012’s top science stories. ABC Science. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/12/19/3657116.htm.
Rohde, P. A., Atzwanger, K., Butovskaya, M., Lampert, A., Mysterud, I., Sanchez-Andres, A., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Perceived parental favoritism, closeness to kin, and the rebel of the family: The effects of birth order and sex. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 261–276. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00033-3.
Schwartz, A. (2010, May 25). From big leagues, hints at sibling behavior. The New York Times (Science Times), D1.
Shanahan, M. J., Sulloway, F. J., & Hofer, S. M. (2000). Change and constancy in developmental contexts. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24, 421–427. http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/24/4/421.full.pdf.
Shermer, M., & Sulloway, F. J. (2000). The grand old man of evolution: An interview with evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. Skeptic, 8(1), 76–82. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Stevens, W. K. (1969). Darwin’s voyage on Beagle is retraced by five for film. The New York Times, 11 February, 33, 38.
Sulloway, F. J. (1979a). Geographic isolation in Darwin’s thinking: The vicissitudes of a crucial idea. Studies in the History of Biology, 3, 23–65. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (1979b). Freud, biologist of the mind: Beyond the psychoanalytic legend. New York: Basic Books; Cambridge: Harvard University Press paperback (with a new Preface), 1992.
Sulloway, F. J. (1982a). Freud and biology: The hidden legacy. In W. R. Woodward & M. G. Ash (Eds.), The problematic science: Psychology in nineteenth-century thought (pp. 198–227). New York: Praeger Publishers. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (1982b). Darwin and his finches: The evolution of a legend. Journal of the History of Biology, 15, 1–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4330800.
Sulloway, F. J. (1982c). The Beagle collections of Darwin’s finches (Geospizinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series, 43(2) (46 pp.). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions
Sulloway, F. J. (1982d). Darwin’s conversion: The Beagle voyage and its aftermath. Journal of the History of Biology, 15, 325–396. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4330832
Sulloway, F. J. (1983a). The legend of Darwin’s finches. Nature, 303, 372. https://doi.org/10.1038/303372a0.
Sulloway, F. J. (1983b). Further remarks on Darwin’s spelling habits and the dating of Beagle voyage manuscripts. Journal of the History of Biology, 16, 361–390. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4330863.
Sulloway, F. J. (1983c). Ideology and the control of scientific knowledge: The case of Freud and his psychoanalytic legend. In M. Ranchetti (Ed.), Psicoanalisi e Storia delle Scienze (pp. 23–37). Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (1984). Darwin and the Galapagos. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 21, 29–59; and published separately in a symposium volume, R. J. Berry (Ed.), Evolution in the Galapagos Islands. London: Academic, 1984. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1984.tb02052.x.
Sulloway, F. J. (1985). Darwin’s early intellectual development: An overview of the Beagle voyage. In D. Kohn (Ed.), The Darwinian heritage (pp. 121–154). Princeton: Princeton University Press, in association with Nova Pacifica. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (1991). Reassessing Freud’s case histories: The social construction of psychoanalysis. Isis, 82, 245–275. http://www.jstor.org/stable/234821.
Sulloway, F. J. (1995). Birth order and evolutionary psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327965pli0601_15.
Sulloway, F. J. (1996). Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives. New York: Pantheon; New York: Vintage, 1997.
Sulloway, F. J. (2000). Frank J. Sulloway: On Darwin and Freud. In P. L. Rudnytsky (Ed.), Psychoanalytic conversations (pp. 137–209). New York: Analytic Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2001a). Frank J. Sulloway in the Galapagos, 1970: The journal of a graduate student at Harvard who takes a new look at Darwin’s revolutionary observations. In A. W. Sulloway (Ed.), On their own: Three New Hampshire scholars chronicle their adventures abroad (pp. 247–338). West Kennebunk: The New Hampshire Historical Society and Phoenix Publishing. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2001b). Birth order, sibling competition, and human behavior. In H. R. Holcomb III (Ed.), Conceptual challenges in evolutionary psychology: Innovative research strategies (pp. 39–83). Dordrecht: Kluwer. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2005a). The evolution of Charles Darwin. Smithsonian, December, 58–69. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions
Sulloway, F. J. (2005b). Ernst Mayr, 1904–2005: Remembrances and tribute. Skeptic, 11(4), 13–14. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions
Sulloway, F. J. (2006). Surviving the Galapagos: A letter from the field. Brick, 77, 72–82. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2007a). Birth order and intelligence. Science, 317, 1711–1712. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1144749.
Sulloway, F. J. (2007b). Psychoanalysis and pseudoscience: Frank J. Sulloway revisits Freud and his legacy. In T. Dufresne (Ed.), Against Freud: Critics talk back (pp. 48–69). Stanford: Stanford University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2009a). Tantalizing tortoises and the Darwin-Galápagos legend. Journal of the History of Biology, 42, 3–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-008-9173-9.
Sulloway, F. J. (2009b). Why Darwin rejected intelligent design. Journal of Biosciences, 34, 173–183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-009-0020-8.
Sulloway, F. J. (2009c). Sources of scientific innovation: A meta-analytic approach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 455–459. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01154.x.
Sulloway, F. J. (2010). Why siblings are like Darwin’s Finches: Birth order, sibling competition, and adaptive divergence within the family. In D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Eds.), The evolution of personality and individual differences (pp. 86–119). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2014a). Documentando cambios ecológicos en las islas Galà pagos a través de tiempo desde de Darwin, 2014 (Documenting ecological changes in the Galápagos Islands since Darwin’s visit, 2014). Galápagos National Park Service and Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
Sulloway, F. J. (2014b). Openness to scientific innovation. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The handbook of genius (pp. 546–563). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions
Sulloway, F. J. (2015). The mystery of the disappearing Opuntia. Galapagos Matters, Autumn/Winter, 8–9. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Sulloway/contributions.
Sulloway, F. J. (2016). The demise of Freud’s dream theory. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 50, 606–609
Sulloway, F. J., & Adams, M. B. (1970). Charles Darwin’s voyage with H.M.S. Beagle. A series of six films: Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle; (2) The Brazilian tropical rain forest; (3) The Galapagos Archipelago: The geological evidence; (4) The Galapagos Archipelago: Land and marine iguanas; (5) The Galapagos Archipelago: Darwin’s Finches; and (6) The Galapagos Archipelago: Giant land tortoises. Santa Monica: BFA Educational Media.
Sulloway, F. J., & Kleindorfer, S. (2013). Adaptive divergence in Darwin’s small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa): Divergent selection along a cline. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110, 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12108.
Sulloway, F. J., & Noonan, K. (2013). Documentando cambios ecológicos en las islas Galà pagos a través de tiempo desde de Darwin, 2013 (Documenting ecological changes in the Galápagos Islands since Darwin’s visit, 2013). Galápagos National Park Service and Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
Sulloway, F. J., & Zweigenhaft, R. L. (2010). Birth order and risk taking in athletics: A meta-analysis and study of major league baseball players. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 402–416. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310361241.
Zajonc, R. B., & Sulloway, F. J. (2007). The confluence model: Birth order as a within-family or between-family dynamic? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1187–1194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167207303017.
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Sulloway, F.J. (2020). Sulloway, Frank J.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1011
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