Camilo Hurtado-Parrado

Camilo Hurtado-Parrado

Assistant Professor
camilo.parrado@siu.edu
618-536-2302
Life Science II, 281
Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Psychology
Dr. Hurtado-Parrado’s research focuses on the understanding of 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:

  1. interactions between verbal and nonverbal behavior (e.g., how aversive consequences affect the consistency between saying and doing)
  2. measurement of emotion regulation strategies and how they affect other behavioral processes (e.g., effects of reappraisal-based regulation on conciliation and self-control)
  3. 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)
  4. establishment and maintenance of complex behavior via aversive events (e.g., conditional discriminations regulated by aversive consequences)
  5. analysis of conceptual, historical, and disciplinary aspects of psychology (e.g., history and need for alternative research methods in psychology).

Behavior and Learning Laboratory (BeLL)

Educational History:

  • 2014 - PhD in Psychology, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).
    Thesis: Aversive control of Betta splendens behavior using water disturbances: effects of signaled and unsignaled free-operant avoidance, escape, and punishment contingencies
  • 2008 - Behavior Analysis, Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Representative publications:

Gantiva, C., Araujo, A., Castillo, K., Claro, L., & Hurtado-Parrado, C. (2021). Physiological and affective responses to emoji faces: Effects on facial muscle activity, skin conductance, heart rate, and self-reported affect. Biological Psychology, 163, 108142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108142

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

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

Virues-Ortega, J., Hurtado-Parrado, C., Arias-Higuera, M., & Iwata, B. (2021). Nathan H. Azrin: A Case Study in Research Translation in Behavior Science. Perspectives on Behavior Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-020-00278-4

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