Heliodoro Carpintero Capell was born in 1939 in Barcelona. Phd. in Philosophy.

He obtained the Extraordinary Prize of Degree in Philosophy and Letters in 1961 and Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters in 1969.

Professor of Basic Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Complutense University of Madrid and Professor Vice-Rector at the Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA).

He was a founding member and first president of the Spanish Society of History of Psychology and president of the Spanish Federation of Associations of Psychology.

Featured publications:

    General Psychology, 1976
    Contemporary psychology. Theory and quantitative methods for the study of its scientific literature, 1981
    History of Psychology in Spain, 1994
    History of psychological ideas, 1996

Outstanding Distinctions:

    Honorary Member of the Official College of Psychologists of Spain, 1997
    Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat de València, 1999
    Honorary Professor of the National University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru), 2003
    Honorary Professor of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University (Lima, Peru), 2003
    Honorary Professor of the Ricardo Palma University of Lima (Peru), 2003
    Academician associé of the Académie Royale de Belgique, class de Lettres, 2004
    Academic foreign correspondent of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2005
    Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology, 2006
    Huarte de San Juan Award of the Official College of Psychologists of Castilla-León, 2007
    Soriano of the Year 2008, from the Casa de Soria in Madrid, 2008
    Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), 2008
    Doctor Honoris Causa by the UNED, National University of Distance Education, 2009
    Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of San Luis (Argentina), 2009