Joseph Lee Rodgers III (born February 9, 1953) is an American psychologist and the Lois Autrey Betts Professor of Psychology and Human Development at

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. He is also the

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Research Professor Emeritus at the

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, where he taught from 1981 to 2012. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology, the

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, and Divisions 5 and 34 of the

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. From 2006 to 2011, he was

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of ''

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''. He received his Ph.D. in

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from the

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in 1981, with a minor in

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. He has been a fellow of the

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since 2012. His substantive research has focused on topics such as the relationship between

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and

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, as well as adolescent risk behaviors, like sexual activity and drug use. His methodological research focuses on behavior genetics, exploratory data analysis, and correlation and regression.

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