Aurelio J. Figueredo

Aurelio José Figueredo is an HBD ("human biodiversity") pseudoscientist whose research has been funded by the far-right Pioneer Fund. As Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, Figueredo controversially accepted $458,000 from the Pioneer Fund, and partly used the money to attend the pseudoscientific London Conference on Intelligence alongside white supremacists; for this he has been widely criticized:

Personality trait research
Figueredo co-authored a 1997 paper with James E. King which applied to chimpanzees residing in zoos. Chimps were judged based on dozens of adjectives, including: "clumsy", "autistic", "stingy", and "manipulative". King and Figueredo anticipate skepticism towards the paper, but aim to dispel it. Even among humans, "Big Five" personality measures may not hold the same validity between cultures.

Allegations of racism
Although Figueredo denies allegations of racism, he sits on the Advisory Board of the Mankind Quarterly (a racist pseudoscholarly journal in which he has also co-authored multiple articles) and in 2009 co-authored a paper with the Pioneer Fund’s president at the time, J. Philippe Rushton (died 2012) who was infamous for race and IQ pseudoscience.