Dario Maestripieri is a Professor at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. He is a biopsychologist who conducts research concerning (1) evolution of human and animal behavior and (2) neuroendocrine regulation of human and animal behavior.
Early Life, Educational Background, and Professional Career
Dario Maestripieri was born in Rome, Italy, in 1964. He obtained his high school diploma in Rome in 1982 and then attended the University of Roma La Sapienza where he obtained his Laurea (B.Sc. and Master’s degree) in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Psychobiology in 1992. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Maestripieri spent 1 year (1990–1991) as a visiting scholar in the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour of the University of Cambridge, UK. He moved to the United States in 1992, to begin a postdoc at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC) of Emory University in Atlanta. He was a Research Associate at the YNPRC from 1992 to 1999 and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of...
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Carere, C., & Maestripieri, D. (Eds.). (2013). Animal personalities: Behavior, physiology, and evolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Maestripieri, D. (Ed.). (2003). Primate psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Maestripieri, D. (2007). Macachiavellian intelligence. How rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Maestripieri, D., & Kappeler, P. (Eds.). (2002). Evolutionary theory and primate behavior [Special Issue]. International Journal of Primatology, 23, 703–951.
Maestripieri, D., & Mateo, J. M. (Eds.). (2009). Maternal effects in mammals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Maestripieri, D., & Morford, J. (Eds.). (1997). Gestural communication in human and nonhuman primates [Special Issue]. Evolution of Communication, 1, 159–282.
Maestripieri, D. (2012). Games primates play. An undercover investigation of the evolution and economics of human relationships. New York: Basic Books.
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Maestripieri, D. (2020). Maestripieri, Dario. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2216
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