-Associate Professor
-PhD, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1997 (Dissertation adviser: Norman E. Spear, Binghamton University)
-Research Associate, Binghamton University (State University of New York), 1992-95
-Member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 3 & 6), the Animal Behavior Society, and the Human Behavior & Evolution Society
-"Ad hoc" reviewer: Behavioural Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
In a broad sense, I am interested in both the exploration and the empirical and quantitative assessment of the implications of contemporary evolutionary theory in the domain of animal behavior (including that of humans). More specifically, I have translated such general interest into two research lines. Both of them revolve around the antipredator defensive behavior system and its related emotion: fear. The most recent one focuses on sex differences in human fear/threat-processing. The older one addresses learning and memory in the antipredator defensive behavior system of the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus).
Selected presentations at conferences:
-Esmorís-Arranz, F. J. Influence of sex on snake detection in visual search in adult humans: reaction times to target matrices. Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Boise, Idaho, 2017.
Selected publications:
-Esmorís-Arranz, F. J., Méndez, C., & Spear, N. E. (2008). Contextual fear conditioning differs for infant, adolescent, and adult rats. Behavioural Processes, 78 (3), 340-350.
-Esmorís-Arranz, F. J., Pardo-Vázquez, J. L., & Vázquez-García, G. A. (2003). Differential effects of forward or simultaneous conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus intervals on the defensive behavior system of the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29 (4), 334-340.
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