Rolando Diaz Loving

Rolando Díaz-Loving is a Professor of Psychology and Head of the Psychosocial Research Unit at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.  Dr. Díaz-Loving is one of the most eminent social psychologists in Mexico and Latin America.  He has received the Social Sciences Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Interamerican Psychologist Award from the Interamerican Society of Psychology, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at Austin, the Ruben Ardila Award for accomplishments in Psychological Research, The National University Award for Research in Social Sciences and the Mexican Psychology Award from the National Counsel for the Teaching and Research in Psychology.  He is past editor of the Revista de Psicología Social y Personalidad and the Revista de Investigacion Psicologica, author of over 100 research articles and chapters, of 9 research books and of 2 textbooks in social psychology, personality, and ethnopsychology, he is also de co-editor of ten volumes of La Psicologia Social en Mexico.  Dr. Díaz-Loving has been an officer of many international psychological organizations such as the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Interamerican Psychological Society, and the Asociación Mexicana de Psicología Social.  His main areas of research are couple and family relations, psychosocial factors related to HIV-AIDS, and culture and personality.  He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981.  Dr. Díaz-Loving is currently serving as the Senior Research Advisor to the National Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative.