Camilo Hurtado-Parrado | SIU

Behavior Analysis and Therapy

Dr. Hurtado-Parrado earned his BSc and MSc in Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He later completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 2015. His research explores human and nonhuman learning and behavioral processes, especially how they are regulated by aversive events (e.g., effects of aversive stimuli on memory, self-control, problem solving, verbal behavior, rule following, and conciliation).

His ongoing agenda entails five areas, namely (a) impulsive choice regulated by aversive contexts (e.g., effects of early-life adversity on delay discounting of rewards and punishers); (b) interactions between verbal and nonverbal behavior (e.g., how aversive consequences affect the consistency between saying and doing); (c) assessing and improving the effectiveness of behavioral teaching methods (e.g., evaluating the effectiveness of a method called Interteaching and how it could reduce procrastination in college students); (d) establishment and maintenance of complex behavior via stressful events (e.g., conditional discriminations regulated by aversive consequences); and (e) analysis of conceptual, historical, and disciplinary aspects of psychology (e.g., history and need for alternative research methods in psychology).

Representative publications:

Hurtado-Parrado, C., Cifuentes, J. D., Henao, K., Bohórquez, C., Sanchez, C., Carlos, J., Monica, F., Higuera, A., Camilo, J., Cesar, V., & Triana, A. (2023). “Wait and See”: Effects of Matching Visual Stimulation on Impulsive Behavior during an Adaptation of Flora et al.’ s (1992) Choice Task. The Psychological Record, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-023-00536-2 

Hurtado-Parrado, C., Segura, A., & Cifuentes, J. (2024). Choice “under pressure”: Impulsive behavior and preference reversal of rats exposed to response-independent shocks. Learning and Motivation, 88(September), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2024.102048

Hurtado-Parrado, C., Pfaller-Sadovsky, N., Medina, L., Gayman, C. M., Rost, K. A., & Schofill, D. (2021). A Systematic Review and Quantitative Analysis of Interteaching. In Journal of Behavioral Education (Issue 0123456789). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-021-09452-3

Pfaller-Sadovsky, N., & Hurtado-Parrado, C. (2020). A cultural selection analysis of human-dog interactions–A primer. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 22, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15021149.2020.1791682

Hurtado-Parrado, C., & López-López, W. (2015). Single-Case Research Methods: History and Suitability for a Psychological Science in Need of Alternatives. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49(3), 323–349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-014-9290-2

Hurtado-Parrado, C., Arias, M. A., González, C. A., García, E., Henao, K., Bohórquez, M. C., & Zapata, A. (2016). Verbal and non-verbal behavior interactions in a computerized adaptation of the task designed by Catania et al. (1982): effects of embedding an aversive contingency in the nonverbal component. Learning and Motivation, 55, 13–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2016.05.006