Professor Frederick
L. Coolidge received his BA, MA, and PhD from the
University of Florida and completed a two-year Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Neuropsychology at Shands Teaching Hospital,
University of Florida. He came to UCCS in 1979. He was
Chair of Department from 1986-1989 and served as the
Clinical Director from 1981-1984. Professor Coolidge is a
two-time Fulbright Fellowship Award recipient (India, 1987,
1992), and has received three teaching awards including the
designation, Presidential Teaching Scholar.
Professor Coolidge is a member of the American
Psychological Association, Behavior Genetics Association,
and the Paleoanthropology Society. He conducts lifespan
research in behavioral genetics, personality disorders, and
paleopsychology. He teaches general psychology, statistics,
personality, and abnormal psychology.
Representative publications:
Coolidge, F. L., Thede, L. L., & Jang, K. L. (in
press). Are personality disorders psychological
manifestations of executive function deficits? Bivariate
heritability evidence from a twin study. Behavior
Genetics.
Coolidge, F. L., Thede, L. L., & Young, S. E. (2002).
The heritability of gender identity disorder in a child and
adolescent twin sample. Behavior Genetics, 32,
251-257.
Coolidge, F. L., Thede, L. L., Stewart, S. E., & Segal,
D. L. (2002). The Coolidge Personality and Neuropsychology
Inventory for Children: Preliminary psychometric
characteristics. Behavior Modification, 26,
550-566.
Coolidge, F. L. & Wynn, T. (2001). Executive functions
of the frontal lobes and the evolutionary ascendancy of
Homo sapiens. Cambridge Archaeological Journal,
11, 255-260.
Coolidge, F. L., Thede, L. L., & Jang, K. L. (2001).
Heritability of personality disorders in childhood.
Journal of Personality Disorders, 15, 33-40.
Coolidge, F. L., Moor, C. J., Yamazaki, T. G., Stewart, S.
E. & Segal D. L. (2001). On the relationship between
Karen Horney's tripartite neurotic type theory and
personality disorder features. Personality and
Individual Differences, 30, 1387- 1400
Coolidge, F. L., Thede, L. L., & Young, S. E. (2000).
Heritability and the comorbidity of attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder with behavioral disorders and
executive function deficits. Developmental
Neuropsychology, 17, 273-287.
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