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CIMCYC Members of the Social Psychology of Inequality Laboratory (http://wwwlocal.ugr.es/~psidesigualdad/; and part of the Psychology of Social Problems group (HUM-289) in collaboration with the University of Salamanca (USAL), have developed a theoretical model supported by multiple empirical investigations to account for the psychosocial consequences of economic inequality.

In a study carried out by Pablo Rodríguez-San Esteban and Ana Chica (CIMCYC), together with Pedro Paz-Alonso (BCBL), participants were presented with a divided attention task, in which they were asked to attend to two stimuli at the same time and give two different responses, thus overloading the capacity of their attentional systems to provoke these illusions. In addition, participants were inside the MRI scanner to record how their brains functioned while doing the task.

From CIMCYC we congratulate the researcher Carmen Callizo-Romero for the "Fan Favorite" award in the Pitch Perfect Thesis competition at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science that took place in Chicago.

This work opens up the possibility of studying the biological basis of Binge Drinking and to analyze the brain changes that occur during the process of acquisition and establishment of this phenomenon in animal models

The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en) of the University of Granada in Spain offers six 4-year research positions (full time) to carry out a PhD.

CIMCYC receives the Diversitas 2022 award

Laura E. Muñoz-García, Carmen Gómez-Berrocal and Juan Carlos Sierra have studied the four dimensions of the subjective experience of orgasm, both in the context of sexual intercourse and in the context of solo masturbation, reported by heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual men and women.

The startup Neuromindset (www.neuromindset.com), a spin-off of the UGR founded by Lina Cómbita and Joan Paul Pozuelos, has beaten more than 1,000 startups from around the world in the category Artificial Intelligence to promote self-regulated learning, one of the 5 specialized tracks of the international GESAwards (www.globaledtechawards.org), which select the most innovative initiatives in the field of education.

The Territorial Delegation of Employment of the Junta de Andalucía announces two positions at CIMCYC, corresponding to the Investigo Program (GR/INV/0007/2022).

2nd year bachelor students enrolled in the Psychology course had the opportunity to visit last Friday, November 11, one of the institutes that are at the forefront of research in Granada: The CIMCYC.