Welcome to the Home Page of Aurelio José Figueredo
Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He serves as Director of the graduate program 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).
Research
Professor Figueredo's 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.
The Arizona Life History Battery
The Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB) is a battery of cognitive and behavioral indicators of life history strategy compiled and adapted from various different original sources. These self-report psychometric indicators measure graded individual differences along various complementary facets of a coherent and coordinated life history strategy, as specified by Differential-K Theory, and converge upon a single multivariate latent construct, the K-Factor. They are scored directionally to indicate a "slow" (high-K) life history strategy on the "fast-slow" (r-K) continuum.
EEP Program
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Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP) is a cross-disciplinary graduate program integrating the studies of comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology, behavioral ecology, behavioral genetics, and behavioral development. |