Jordan Bernt Peterson (Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada, June 12, 1962) is a Canadian
clinical psychologist (PhD), writer, media
commentator and professor of psychology at
the University of Toronto. His main areas of
study are analytical, social and evolutionary
psychology, with particular interest in
ideological belief, personality and the
psychology of religion.[2] He is the author of
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,
and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.
Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He
graduated in political science in 1982 and in
psychology in 1984, both from the University
of Alberta. In 1991, he completed a doctorate
in clinical psychology from McGill University.
He remained at McGill University for two
years before moving to the United States,
where he worked as an assistant and adjunct
professor in the psychology department at
Harvard University, where he studied
aggression resulting from drug and alcohol
abuse and the inherited predisposition to
aggression. alcoholism of children of
alcoholics.[3]