Dr. Marco Antonio Pulido Rull

Like most of Mexico’s scientists, I was an undergraduate and graduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During my graduate studies, I specialized in experimental design, statistics, and the experimental analysis of behavior. With the help of the University (and my own means), I managed to commute on a yearly basis to the US and Canada, to share my research with my peers. Almost simultaneously, I started teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I found out quickly that Mexican psychology students were uninterested in developing their own theories. They took for granted anything that was published the US. Immediately my teaching path was set before my feet. As a teacher, I had to give my students the scientific and statistical tools that would help them critically assess imported theories and techniques.