Background
Alderfer, Clayton Paul was born on September 1, 1940 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Paul and Ruth Althea (Buck) Alderfer.
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Alderfer, Clayton Paul was born on September 1, 1940 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Paul and Ruth Althea (Buck) Alderfer.
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Alderfer obtained his Bachelor in psychology in 1962 at Yale University, where he also obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in psychology 1966.
In 1977 he also obtained certification by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). After graduation Alderfer started his academic career at the Cornell University in 1966. In 1968 he returned to Yale, where he was researcher, lecturer and program director in the Department of Administrative Sciences until 1992.
In 1992 he moved to Rutgers University, where he acted as the program director for the Organizational Psychology department at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology for 12 years.
In the new millennium he started his own consultancy firm. d P. P. West. P. P. L. P. Doctorate. P.
Board of directors NTL Institute, Arlington, Virginia, 1975-1978, DATA, New Haven, 1989-1992. Fellow American Psychological Association, Society Applied Anthropology, American Psychological Society. Member Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Charleen Judith Frankenfield, July 14, 1962. Children: Kate, Benjamin.