Professor, Psychology
University of Arizona
Family Studies and Human Development
650 N Park Ave
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0078
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 Psychology Reassert, which is an advance full-year graduate-level course. His major area of research 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.