Aurelio José Figueredo

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Aurelio José Figueredo
Born (1955-12-27) December 27, 1955 (age 68)
Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente, Cuba
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside
AwardsAmerican Psychological Association George A. Miller Award (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Thesis The statistical measurement, developmental mechanisms, and adaptive ecological functions of conditioned host selection in the parasitoid jewel wasp  (1987)
Doctoral advisorLewis Petrinovich

Aurelio José Figueredo (born December 27, 1955) is an American evolutionary psychologist. He is a professor of psychology, Family Studies and Human Development at the

chimpanzees.[3][4][unreliable source?][5]

In 2017, Figueredo was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, of which he is a Charter Member, and in 2010 he received the George A. Miller Award for coauthoring the "Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology" from the American Psychological Association.[1]

Figueredo served for five years as the chair of the board of directors of the Western Comparative Psychological Association in 1992, was a member of the board of directors of the Evaluation Group for Analysis of Data also in 1992, and a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Jane Goodall Institute ChimpanZoo Project in 1994.[1]

Figueredo was Book Review Editor of the journal

Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology and for Evolutionary Psychology, as well as editor-in-chief of the Human Ethology Bulletin.[1] Figueredo has also reviewed papers for Mankind Quarterly, and has served on the editorial advisory board of the journal as of 2015.[1][6] Mankind Quarterly has advocated for scientific racism. Figueredo has disavowed eugenics and racial inferiority.[6]

As of 2018, Figueredo was identified by the

Inside Higher Education said that the Rushton's theory "was widely criticized as racist and based on shaky science".[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Aurelio José Figueredo". University of Arizona. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  2. ^ "Aurelio José Figueredo CV". University of Arizona. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  3. doi:10.1006/jrpe.1997.2179
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  4. ^ Viegas, Jen (2017-10-24). "Wild Chimp Personalities Remain Unchanged Over Time". Seeker. Group Nine Media. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
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  6. ^ a b c Kunzelman, Michael (August 24, 2018). "University of Arizona accepted $458,000 from infamous eugenics fund". azcentral. Associated Press. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  7. ^ Flaherty, Colleen (10 September 2018). "Arizona psychologist faces scrutiny for grants from organization founded to support research in eugenics". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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  9. S2CID 4894862
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  10. ^ Flaherty, Colleen (10 September 2018). "Arizona psychologist faces scrutiny for grants from organization founded to support research in eugenics". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 8 October 2018. Figueredo in his research has frequently cited the work of the late J. Philippe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who was for many years the president of the Pioneer Fund. While life cycle strategy sounds innocuous enough when applied across species, such as rabbits living and dying quickly and elephants living and caring for their young much longer, Rushton applied the theory within species, namely people. His theory was that black people lived on an accelerated cycle, white people on something of an average, and East Asians on the longest cycle. He attributed those alleged differences to intelligence and genetics. His work was widely criticized as racist and based on shaky science.

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