Rolando Diaz-Loving obtained his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” in 2001. He is a Full Professor and Head of the Psychosocial Research Unit at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research centers on couple and family relationships, sexual and contraceptive behaviors, health, HIV and obesity, culture and personality, cross-cultural psychology and ethno-psychology. His publications on personality and social psychological processes are the basis for the consolidation of a Mexican ethno-psychology. His bio-psycho-social-cultural theory on human relationships is guide to studies and programs about family and couple relationships, and his studies in sexual behavior, contraceptive behavior, health, HIV and obesity are the foundation for numerous intervention programs.
Diaz-Loving is author of 224 articles in scientific journals, 223 chapters in specialized books, 19 research books and two textbooks. He has directed 49 doctoral, 26 masters and 28 bachelor level theses and dissertations. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin Psychology Department (1988-1989; 1994; 2001-2002), and at the Latin American Studies Institute as a Tinker Visiting Professor (2019); at the University of Manitoba in Canada (1996; 1999); at the University of Palermo in Argentina (2004); at the University of Valencia in Spain (2009); and the State University of Texas (2023).
He has given more than 2000 presentations at conferences in 32 countries around the world. He has received funding for research from the Pan-American Health Organization, World Health Organization, Fogarty Foundation, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, Population Council, the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, among others. He created and edited the “Revista de Psicología Social y Personalidad” and Psychological Research Records. He has also been a member of the editorial committee and reviewer for seventeen different Journals.
Diaz-Loving has been a member of the Executive Committee for the International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology. President of the Interamerican Psychological Society and co-founder and Ex-President of the Mexican Association of Social Psychology and co-founder and Vice President of the Mexican Institute for Family and Population Research. He was also a Senior Consultant to the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative and is currently the Past President of Division 3 of International Association of Applied Psychology.