Aurelio José Figueredo (born December 27, 1955) is an American evolutionary psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, where he is also the director of the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona. His major areas of research interest are the evolutionary psychology and behavioral development of life history strategy, cognition, sex, and violence in human and nonhuman animals, and the quantitative ethology and social development of insects, birds, and primates. He is known for his research on personality, such as a 1997 study in which he and James E. King developed the Hominoid Personality Questionnaire to measure the Big Five personality traits in chimpanzees.
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27 December 1955 (age 69) Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente, Cuba
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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