Jordan Peterson
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- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Psychology
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: May 2003 - June 2020
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Prof. Peterson is a man among boys. He truly tells it like it is.
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Prof. Jordan's exams can be tough but he's actually awesome!
Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Psychology
Professor of Psychology at University of Toronto
Education Management
Jordan
Peterson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I am a clinical psychologist, professor, public lecturer, business consultant, and vice-president of ExamCorp, a neuropsychological assessment company.
I am a Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a position I hold since 1998 and I previously served as a professor at Harvard University.
With my colleagues, Dr. Daniel M. Higgins and Dr. Robert O. Pihl, I produced two online programs: UnderstandMyself (understandmyself.com/) and the Self Authoring Suite (https://www.selfauthoring.com/). The latter is designed to help people plan for their ideal future (The Future Authoring Program), understand their past (The Past Authoring Program) and discover their true self (The Present Authoring Program).
Research documenting the effectiveness of the Future Authoring program found that it helped thousands of university students improve their grades (+20%) and decreased the probability of dropout (-25%).
I published Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, which was later made into a thirteen-part televised series on TVO that featured many public intellectuals of international renown (http://bigideas.tvo.org/).
I have also authored 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, which became a multi-million copy bestseller, #1 for nonfiction in 2018 in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil and Norway, and is now slated for translation into 50 languages. On the 12 Rules for Life book tour, I lectured to 200,000+ people across North America, Europe, and Australia.
I am currently working on a new book, 12 More Rules for Life: Beyond Mere Order, slated for publication in early 2020, and starting a company devoted to producing a universal online adaptive education system.
Experience
ExamCorp
Vice President
Developed and marketed a set of sophisticated tools for psychometric analysis and employee selection.
University of Toronto
Professor of Psychology
Lectured to undergraduates and graduate students, supervised graduate students, conducted and published experimental psychology studies, wrote books
Funded Founder Institute
Assessment Process Designer
Designed and implemented a psychometric test battery that has been used to select students for entrepreneurial training in 13 countries and 32 cities -- culminating in the generation of 550 new businesses under the guidance of Adeo Ressi at fi.co
TVOntario
Essayist
TVO is Ontario's Canadian Public Television Network. I was offered the opportunity last year to deliver a three minute talk on psychologically relevant public issues on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, which is one of Canada's top-rated news and public affairs shows.
Praxis Partners
Consultant
Executive coaching, primarily for senior partners at large law firms (aimed at enhancing their personal lives and improving their productivity)
Education
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Psychology
McGill University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Clinical Psychology
Publications
The Self Authoring Suite
www.selfauthoring.com
The Self-Authoring Suite, offered at selfauthoring.com, is a set of four interactive writing programs, all completed online. The Past Authoring program helps its users write an autobiography. The two Present Authoring programs help users understand and improve your personality faults and virtues. The Future Authoring program helps users plan a future that would be best for them, three to five years down the road. Each program presents the user with a series of interactive web pages that ask you specific questions. This simplifies and guides the process of personal writing. Such programs improve productivity and health dramatically, according to our research, as well as research conducted by James Pennebaker and recently meta-analyzed by Frank Schmidt.
The Self Authoring Suite
www.selfauthoring.com
The Self-Authoring Suite, offered at selfauthoring.com, is a set of four interactive writing programs, all completed online. The Past Authoring program helps its users write an autobiography. The two Present Authoring programs help users understand and improve your personality faults and virtues. The Future Authoring program helps users plan a future that would be best for them, three to five years down the road. Each program presents the user with a series of interactive web pages that ask you specific questions. This simplifies and guides the process of personal writing. Such programs improve productivity and health dramatically, according to our research, as well as research conducted by James Pennebaker and recently meta-analyzed by Frank Schmidt.
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
New York: Routledge
Maps of Meaning is a book about the regulation of emotion by belief. It explains how and why human perception and action is structured by narrative, and what that narrative means, at the deepest possible levels -- the levels where good and evil themselves are acted out and represented.
