Frederick L. Coolidge

Frederick L. Coolidge is Professor of Psychology at UCCS, where he has taught since 1979. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD (psychology) from the University of Florida and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Shands Teaching Hospital, University of Florida. He is a three-time Fulbright Fellowship Award recipient (India, 1987, 1992, 2005) and has received three teaching awards (University of Colorado Presidential Teaching Scholar, a lifetime designation; the UCCS Letters, Arts, and Sciences Annual Outstanding Research and Creative Works Award, 2004-2005; and the UCCS Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, 2006-2007). He has published 50+ articles and book chapters in cognitive archaeology and 140+ articles on his psychological research. His 10 books include Evolutionary Neuropsychology (Oxford, 2020), Statistics: A Gentle Introduction (4th edition, SAGE, 2020), and Dream Interpretation as a Psychotherapeutic Technique (Radcliffe, 2006); several volumes authored or edited with Thomas Wynn, The Rise of Homo sapiens (Routledge 2009; Oxford 2018) and Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution (Cambridge, 2009); and a volume co-edited with Karenleigh A. Overmann, Squeezing Minds from Stones (Oxford, 2019).