Jennifer Joy Freyd is an American psychologist, researcher, author, educator, and speaker.
17 Facts About Jennifer Freyd
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Jennifer Freyd is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Early in her career, Jennifer Freyd was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and she received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.
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Jennifer Freyd was selected for the 2021 Christine Blasey Ford Woman of Courage Award by the Association for Women in Psychology.
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In 2024 Jennifer Freyd received the Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation.
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Jennifer Freyd received an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in May 2024.
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Jennifer Freyd attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia and after three years of high school was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology.
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Jennifer Freyd was an assistant professor at Cornell University from 1983 to 1987, until she was hired with tenure as an associate professor of psychology at the University of Oregon in 1987.
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In 1992, Jennifer Freyd was promoted to full professor at the University of Oregon.
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In 2017, Jennifer Freyd filed suit against the University of Oregon for violating the Equal Pay Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and Title IX during her decades of employment.
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Jennifer Freyd introduced the following original concepts to the trauma literature: betrayal trauma, betrayal blindness, DARVO, institutional betrayal, and institutional courage.
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In early 2019, Jennifer Freyd announced a new research initiative to promote the study of institutional courage.
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Jennifer Freyd described her current research agenda on institutional betrayal and courage and intention to create a nonprofit organization, The Center for Institutional Courage, on a December 2019 episode of the Human Centered podcast.
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Jennifer Freyd has proposed 10 steps by which institutions can make progress toward institutional courage, such as encouraging whistleblowing and carrying out assessments of institutional betrayal through anonymous surveys.
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In 2021, Jennifer Freyd argued that academic institutions should cease the use of the gendered honorary titles 'emeritus' and 'emerita' and instead adopt the gender-neutral term 'emerit'.
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Jennifer Freyd was married to John Quincy "JQ" Johnson III, from 1984 until his death in 2012.
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Around 1990, Freyd uncovered memories of her father, mathematics professor Peter J Freyd, abusing her during her childhood.