Nicholas Christenfeld is a former professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego until his dismissal in 2019.
[1] More recently, he studied the tendency of people to choose purebred dogs which resembled them.
[2] Christenfeld was fired from his tenured professorship and stripped of emeritus status after a year-long investigation found he had violated Title IX by mistakenly emailing a female student pornography in 2018.
He had previously been the subject of five separate complaints, including substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct on university property and undisclosed romantic relationships with students.
However, the university determined none of the prior complaints warranted significant disciplinary action.