Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist 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.
and a B.A. 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 University as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before
moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and 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 an ongoing controversy that received significant
media coverage.
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