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¿Por qué algunas personas aceptan la desigualdad económica mientras que otras consideran urgente reducirla? Aunque solemos pensar que las diferencias de ingresos generan gran preocupación en la mayoría de las personas, esto no siempre ocurre. De hecho, las actitudes hacia la desigualdad económica suelen provocar una marcada polarización política entre distintos sectores de la sociedad. Sin embargo, cuando esas diferencias económicas se traducen en desigualdades en otros ámbitos, como la salud o la educación, la motivación para reducirla cambia notablemente

In a recent study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers from the University of Granada—Pablo Mangas, Juan Carlos Sierra, and Reina Granados—in collaboration with Inês M. Tavares (Lusófona University, Porto) and Cristóbal Calvillo (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), validated one of the most established theoretical models of sexual satisfaction, the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction (IEMSS), in LGB same-sex couples.

A study conducted at CIMCYC–UGR confirms that the International Trauma Questionnaire is a reliable tool for detecting the psychological consequences of intimate partner violence against women.

This coming Tuesday, March 24, PsychoBeers returns with a session dedicated to addiction. The talks will kick off at 8:30 p.m. at Sala Planta Baja.

Iván Dragomirov Padezhki, a doctoral student at the University of Granada originally from the University of Padua (Italy), has been awarded a prestigious doctoral fellowship from the "la Caixa" Foundation. This fellowship will allow him to join the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) to conduct his research in the field of experimental psychology. He secured the funding through the 2025 INPhINIT Doctoral Programme in Psychology, which is designed for early-career researchers starting their scientific trajectories. The fellowship lasts up to four years and provides financial support covering labor costs, research expenses, and tuition fees, in addition to a face-to-face training program in transferable skills.

Tenemos el placer de anunciar la próxima sesión de las CIMCYC Sessions IA, Mente y Cerebro el jueves 19 de marzo de 2026. Siguiendo el formato de encuentros anteriores, la sesión se articulará en torno a la discusión del texto propuesto. Se invita a las personas asistentes a preparar ideas, preguntas o dudas previas (con una estimación de 5 minutos de preparación) para enriquecer el diálogo conjunto. 

Desde el Psychometric Lab del Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC) de la Universidad de Granada se ha llevado a cabo la adaptación y validación de la versión española de la Escala de Atención Moral, basada en la escala original Moral Attentiveness Scale desarrollada por Reynolds (2008).

The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) is joining the international celebration of Brain Awareness Week, the global campaign to promote enthusiasm and support for brain science. Throughout March, the center will hold activities to bring neuroscience research closer to different audiences, explain in an accessible way how the brain develops and changes at different stages of life, and answer questions about how it works. This project has received support and funding from the Dana Foundation and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).

The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) welcomes Prof. Dolores Albarracín as a Visiting Scholar this month. As part of her stay, the Person-Environment Interaction Laboratory (LIPE-Lab)—part of the research group “HUM-196: Values, Beliefs and Attitudes”—has organized a series of lectures entitled “Communication, Persuasion and Behavior Change.”

Members of the Psychometric Lab at the University of Granada, from the research group on Modeling and Measurement of Human Behavior (HUM-624), and from the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), in collaboration with the University of Oviedo (UNIOVI), carried out a study exploring the experiences of school bullying among girls and boys enrolled in Compulsory Secondary Education.