Figueredo, Aurelio J.
Professor
Program: Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology
Second Program: EEP Program Head
Year of affiliation: 1987
Year of doctor degree: 1987
Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He is Director of the graduate program there in Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP), and is affiliated with the graduate programs in Program Evaluation and Research Methodology (PERM) and Psychology, Policy, and Law (PPL). He is also a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Insect Science (CIS) at the University of Arizona. He served for five years as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Western Comparative Psychological Association, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Evaluation Group for Analysis of Data and the Public Interest Research Service, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Jane Goodall Institute ChimpanZoo Project and a Senior Research Fellow in quantitative ethology at Zoo Atlanta. He currently serves as Director General of the International Project on Family Structure (Proyecto Internacional sobre la Estructura Familiar; PIEF), a research collaboration also involving several universities in Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica, and has honorary faculty appointments at the Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Sonora, the Programa Interinstitucional de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, the Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica, the Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, and the Division of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University. His major area of research interest is the evolutionary psychology and behavioral development of life history strategy, sex, and violence in human and nonhuman animals, and the quantitative ethology and social development of insects, birds, and primates.
Dr. Figueredo serves as Director of the graduate program in Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP), which is a cross-disciplinary program integrating the studies of comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology, and behavioral ecology, genetics, and development. Dr. Figueredo also regularly teaches Statistical Methods in Psychological Research, which is an advanced full-year graduate-level course covering both bivariate and multiple regression, manifest variable path analysis, and latent variable causal models (i.e., factor analytic structural equations models), the general linear model (including the analyses of variance and covariance), confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis, and canonical analysis (including multiple discriminant function analysis and multivariate analysis of variance).
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