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Gonzalo Renato Quintana Zunino

Profesor asistente

Universidad de Tarapacá

Arica, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


I am interested in all research topic related to sexual behavior & sexual health, especially orgasm, fetishes, first sexual experience, and the neural substrates of sexual behavior and response, in general.

Educación

  •  Sexual behavior, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY. Canada, 2018
  •  Sexual behavior, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY. Chile, 2013
  •  Psicólogo Social y de las Organizaciones, UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA. Chile, 2010
  •  Psicología, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY. Chile, 2008
  •  Natural Science, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY. Canada, 2019

Experiencia Académica

  •   Research associate Full Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2017 - 2018

  •   Research associate Part Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2012 - 2017

  •   Research associate Part Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2011 - 2015

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psicología

    Talca, Chile

    2007 - 2008

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psicología

    Talca, Chile

    2007 - 2007

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psicología

    Talca, Chile

    2007 - 2008

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psicología

    Talca, Chile

    2009 - 2011

  •   Teacher Other

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2016 - 2016

  •   Teacher Other

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2015 - 2015

  •   Teaching Assistant Part Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2016 - 2017

  •   Teaching Assistant - Stats II Part Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2012 - 2016

  •   Teaching Assistant - Stats I Part Time

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Arts & Sciences

    Montreal, Canada

    2012 - 2016

  •   Teaching Assistant - Methods I Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psychology

    Talca, Chile

    2006 - 2008

  •   Teaching Assistant - Methods I Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psychology

    Talca, Chile

    2006 - 2008

  •   Teaching Assistant - Methods II Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Psychology

    Talca, Chile

    2006 - 2008

  •   Peer reviewer CONICYT Other

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Montreal, Canada

    2017 - 2017

  •   Peer reviewer – Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencia Psicológica Other

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Montreal, Canada

    2016 - 2016

  •   Peer Reviewer - Journal of Pediatric Other

    Montreal, Canada

    2012 - 2012

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACA

    Ciencias sociales y jurídicas

    Arica, Chile

    2020 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Bargaining officer and Negotiator leader Part Time

    Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    2017 - 2019

  •   Central advisory Health & Safety committee representative Part Time

    Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    2016 - 2018

  •   Animal caretaker Part Time

    Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    2013 - 2018

Formación de Capital Humano


I have directed undergraduate thesis and research projects
2016-2017 Francisco Yarur “Differential disruption of conditioned ejaculatory partner preference of the male rat based on a somatosensory cue by microinfusions of naloxone to the medial preoptic area and ventral tegmental area” Directed research project [under the supervision of Dr. Jim Pfaus, Concordia University]
2013-2014 Jann Tamaro “Behavioral and brain analyses of conditioned ejaculatory preference of somatosensory cues on the male rat" Thesis for obtain the Bachelors degree in Psychology [under the supervision of Dr. Jim Pfaus, Concordia University]


Difusión y Transferencia


1. Quintana, G. [submitted]. Is sex binary of a spectrum? Well, it is both and neither!

2. Quintana, G. [2020]. El Coronavirus y el sexo: Qué hacer y qué no durante la pandemia y el distanciamiento social. Chile Científico, Chile.

3. Quintana, G. [2020]. Coronavirus dan seks: Apa yang boleh dan tidak boleh dilakukan selama pembatasan sosial. The Conversation, Indonesia.

4. Quintana, G. [2020]. Sex during social distancing: The Do’s and Don’ts. The Conversation, Canada. [*Editor’s choice]

5. Quintana, G. [2020]. Coronavirus et sexe: quio faire et ne pas faire en période de distanciation sociale. La Conversation, Canada.

6. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. There are infinite ways to have sex & there is nothing unnatural with any of them. The Conversation, Canada.

7. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. Les façons d'avoir des rapports sexuels se déclinent - presque - à l’infini, et tous sont «naturels»

8. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. The sounds of orgasm: A study on the sex life of rats informs human sexual behavior. The Conversation, Canada.

9. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. Las ratas nos dicen mucho sobre el sonido de nuestros orgasmos. La conversación, España.

10. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. Quand la sexualité des rats nous en dit long sur celle des humains

11. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2019]. Fetishes: the Good, the Bad, and the "Ugly". Sexual Wellness centre.

12. Quintana, G. [2018]. Sexual harassment prevention starts at home. Toronto Star, Op Ed.

13. Quintana, G., [2018]. Your ideal mate may be the shadow of your first love. Sexual Wellness centre.

14. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2018]. The orgasm gap and what sex ed did not teach you. The Conversation, Canada [*Most read article of 2018].

15. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2018]. Comment combler le «fossé orgasmique»? La Conversation, France.

16. Quintana, G. & Cionnait, C. [2018]. Tout ce que vous devriez savoir sur le «fossé orgasmique». La Conversation, Canada.

17. Quintana, G. [2018]. Who is your ideal mate? Your first may have something to do with it. The Conversation, Canada.

18. Quintana, G. [2018]. Until death do us part. Concordia Public Scholar’s Blog.

19. Quintana, G. [2017]. On how to become the best at sex. Concordia Public Scholar’s Blog.

20. Quintana, G. [2017]. The rat playground project. Concordia Public Scholar’s Blog.

21. Quintana, G. [2017]. Are you a pervert? Challenging the boundaries of sex. The Conversation, Canada.

22. Quintana, G. [2017]. The fetish rainbow. Concordia Public Scholar’s Blog.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   CIRANO Avant-Garde member

    CIRANO

    Canada, 2017

    Distinction, Concordia University Ambassador

  •   Concordia Public Scholar award

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2017

    1st cohort of Public Scholars, 10.000 CAD

  •   Concordia Volunteer Recognition award

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2017

    Volunteer recognition award

  •   Concordia Merit Scholarship award

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2016

    Recognition 10.000 CAD

  •   Concordia Graduate Scholarship in Psychology award

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2016

    Recognition, 5.000 CAD

  •   Concordia Media Outreach and Newsmaker of the week

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Canada, 2015

    Media outreach recognition

  •   School of Graduate Studies Conference & Exposition awards

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2013

    Award 5.000 CAD

  •   Arts and Science Conference & Exposition awards

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2012

    Award 3.750 CAD

  •   Canada-Chile Leadership exchange scholarship

    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2011

    Canadian Bureau for International Education and CONICYT partnership award

  •   USA-Chile Equal opportunity scholarship

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Chile, 2011

    2011 cohort member

  •   Becas Chile

    CONICYT

    Chile, 2011

    150.000 CAD

  •   Juan Abate Molina

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Chile, 2008

    Exchange scholarship

  •   Valedictorian

    Liceo Oscar Castro

    Chile, 2003

    Valedictorian 2000-2003 cohort, Liceo Oscar Castro

  •   Fernando Riveros Baraona

    Liceo Oscar Castro

    Chile, 2003

    Poetry award


 

Article (28)

Behavioral, Neural, and Molecular Mechanisms of Conditioned Mate Preference: The Role of Opioids and First Experiences of Sexual Reward
Can Orgasms Be Disentangled Into Their Parts? A Response to McKenna (2021)
Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice
The Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Reproduction, Sexual Function and Behaviors: A Review of the Main Trends and Findings
Acute caffeine reverses the disruptive effects of chronic fluoxetine on the sexual behavior of female and male rats.
Conditioning of Sexual Interests and Paraphilias in Humans Is Difficult to See, Virtually Impossible to Test, and Probably Exactly How It Happens: A Comment on Hsu and Bailey (2020)
Differential disruption of conditioned ejaculatory preference in the male rat based on different sensory modalities by micro-infusions of naloxone to the medial preoptic area or ventral tegmental area (vol 236, pg 3613, 2020)
The non-aromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) facilitates sexual behavior in ovariectomized female rats primed with estradiol
Behavior is the ultimate arbiter: An alternative explanation for the inhibitory effect of fluoxetine on the ovulatory homolog model of orgasm in rabbits
Conditioned Partner Preference in Male and Female Rats for a Somatosensory Cue
Effects of ovarian hormones on the emission of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations during distributed clitoral stimulation in the rat
Naloxone Disrupts the Development of a Conditioned Ejaculatory Preference Based on a Somatosensory Cue in Male Rats
Effect of CS preexposure on the conditioned ejaculatory preference of the male rat: behavioral analyses and neural correlates
First sexual experiences determine the development of conditioned ejaculatory preference in male rats
Do rats have orgasms?
The whole versus the sum of some of the parts: toward resolving the apparent controversy of clitoral versus vaginal orgasms
Why are some dimensions integral? Testing two hypotheses through causal learning experiments
Why are some dimensions integral? Testing two hypotheses through causal learning experiments.
Depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adolescents seven months after the february 27 2010 earthquake in Chile [Síntomas de depresión, ansiedad y estrés post-traumático en adolescentes siete meses después del terremoto del 27 de febrero de 2010 en Chile]
Síntomas de depresión, ansiedad y estrés post-traumático en adolescentes siete meses después del terremoto del 27 de febrero de 2010 en Chile
Habituation of the eyeblink response in humans with stimuli presented in a sequence of incremental intensity
Asociaciones excitatorias entre el contexto y la consecuencia en la reinstalación de respuestas extinguidas en el aprendizaje causal humano
Environmental and psychosocial factors associated with panic attack symptoms after the February 27 2010 earthquake and tsunami in the central zone of Chile
Environmental and psychosocial factors associated with panic attack symptoms after the February 27 2010 earthquake and tsunami in the central zone of Chile [Factores ambientales y psicosociales vinculados a síntomas de ataque de pánico después del terremoto y tsunami del 27 de Febrero de 2010 en la zona central de Chile]
Excitatory context-consequence associations in the reinstatement of extinguished responses in human causal learning [Asociaciones excitatorias entre el contexto y la consecuencia en la reinstalación de respuestas extinguidas en el aprendizaje causal humano]
Factores Ambientales y Psicosociales Vinculados a Síntomas de Ataque de Pánico Después del Terremoto y Tsunami del 27 de Febrero de 2010 en la Zona Central de Chile
Generalidad de la Hipótesis de la Flexibilidad de Procesamiento en el Aprendizaje Humano: Del Condicionamiento al Aprendizaje Predictivo
Generality of the flexibility of processing hypothesis in human learning: From conditioning to predictive learning [Generalidad de la hipótesis de la flexibilidad de procesamiento en el aprendizaje humano: Del condicionamiento al aprendizaje predictivo]

BookSection (1)

Relationship between type of treatment received and quality of life of clinical indicators in patients with schizophrenia in the region of Maule

Proyecto (6)

Modulacion Asociativa de Respuestas Biológicamente Significativas en el Condicionamiento Clásico Humano
Cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms of communicative and social competence in second cycle elementary scholar
Contrasting two models of reasoning with Theory of Mind (TOM) on classic tasks, empathic comprehension tasks and physic causality tasks graduated in semantic complexity
Procesamiento configuracional versus procesamiento elementístico en el aprendizaje asociativo humano
Que el hogar no se transforme en un peligro. Talleres de soporte vital básico familiares
Creación de una red de soporte vital básico
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Gonzalo Quintana

Profesor asistente

Psicología

Universidad de Tarapacá

Arica, Chile

7
Edgar Vogel

Titular (tenured) professor of psychology

Facultad de psicologia

UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

Talca, Chile

4
Fernando Ponce

Investigador Asociado

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

1
Marcelo Leiva

Profesor Asociado

FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

Talca, Chile