Nicholas Christenfeld


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. More recently, he studied the tendency of people to choose purebred dogs which resembled them.

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