In this study, previous results are replicated and extended regarding how a stimulus predicting the possibility of obtaining a reward can increase its ability to cause distraction in a visual attention task. It is observed that this distraction persists even when the stimulus no longer signals the possibility of obtaining a reward.
Researchers from the CTS-436 Group (Psychosocial and Transcultural Aspects of Health and Illness) belonging to the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center at the University of Granada (UGR) and the University of Alicante (UA), in collaboration with the IPIR Institute and other entities, have developed a new assessment scale that allows the evaluation of various responses to grief following the loss of a loved one.
This research aims to explore the origin of gender congruence at the linguistic level and how attitudes and social gender biases can be influenced
Researchers from the LabSex at CIMCYC publish a new study on sexual satisfaction in same-sex couples
Researchers from the Clinical Psychophysiology and Health Promotion Research Group (CTS-261) at the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center of the University of Granada (UGR), in collaboration with other entities, have delved into the study of death anxiety, focusing on caregivers of individuals with chronic illness
Researchers from CIMCYC, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, publish research in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour.
This is a study published in the prestigious journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews that determines the unreliability of the findings of published studies on the involvement of the motor system in language comprehension.
Gender violence has a negative impact on professionals working in this area of social intervention, being subjected to constant emotional stress and maintained over time, which can lead to a state of emotional tension that increases the risk of professional burnout, affecting the quality of care offered to victims who come to their services.
The economic and social position in a society, or socioeconomic status, influences many aspects of people's lives, such as emotional well-being or sense of control. To calculate the socioeconomic status of individuals, income and educational level are generally used together, creating a composite index. However, these two characteristics may have different effects on important variables such as prosocial behavior, which refers to activities and behaviors that benefit others and are carried out without expectation of direct or immediate reward.
From the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center of the University of Granada, a team of researchers from the Clinical Neuropsychology and Psychoneuroimmunology (PNinsula) group (CTS-581), has carried out a study entitled "Can we influence the neurological development and hair cortisol concentration of offspring by reducing the stress of the mother during pregnancy? A randomized controlled trial," published in the journal "Stress and Health."
