Paul Joseph Frick is an American psychologist and the Roy Crumpler Memorial Chair in psychology at Louisiana State University (LSU), as well as a professor at the Learning Sciences Institute of Australia at Australian Catholic University.
He is known for his research on psychopathy and antisocial behavior in children, which he has been studying for over twenty years.
While still training to become a family therapist, he changed his mind after deciding that treatments for child aggression were not effective enough, so instead he chose to study the causes of such behavior.
He was the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy from 2009 to 2011, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology from 2007 to 2011.
[4][5] In 2015, he received the Robert D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.