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Researchers Ricardo Guzmán (CICS) and Leda Cosmides (UC Santa Barbara) presented first evidence of a human system designed to make trade-offs between competing moral values in decision ...
Contribute to science: open call for participants who have had a non-COVID respiratory illness during the pandemic
Friday, 17 June, 2022 | Por pazsantandertNeuroCICS laboratory, along with Clínica Alemana, is looking for volunteers for the control group of the study on the neurological consequences of the pandemic virus. Participants must ...
The brain of the fan: football as a model of affiliation and intergroup conflict
Wednesday, 13 April, 2022 | Por pazsantandert
Ph.D. Francisco Zamorano presented the preliminary results of the study that seeks to identify the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms that act in social cohesion. In particular, he ...
Collaborate with science: we are looking for mothers for paid study
Monday, 4 April, 2022 | Por pazsantandert
The Center for Research in Social Complexity (CICS) opens a call for women who are mothers for a presencial study on human behavior, in Santiago, Chile. Voluntary ...
A new platform reveals career alternatives using collective intelligence
Saturday, 11 December, 2021 | Por pazsantandertChilean physicist Cristian Candia-Castro developed a model that brings together the experience of 1.9 million people who have gone through the Chilean university application process. The Lixandria ...
Research on intracerebral signals for reward and punishment prediction errors in humans by Dr. Pablo Billeke featured in Nature Communications
Sunday, 20 June, 2021 | Por pazsantandertUsing intracortical iEEG recordings, an international group of neuroscience researchers identified the existence of two different cortical systems for approach and avoidance learning.
"Approaching reward and avoiding ...
[CICS on Tour] DCCS student will study Transporte at the University of Newcastle
Thursday, 10 May, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
Jorge Urrutia, part of the 2015 Generation, will work for a month and a half with Dr. Elizabetta Cherchi, a world expert in experiments of declared preferences, ...
Leda Cosmides held Seminar on the study of evolution and human behavior from the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences
Wednesday, 18 April, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
The outstanding American psychologist, professor at UCSB and co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, was part of the trio of researchers who analyzed the global scenario ...
Understanding human cooperation in social dilemmas
Monday, 16 April, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
One of our main research interests at CICS is the study of human cooperative behavior in social dilemmas, such as the collective provision of public goods and ...
Paradoxical expectation: oscillatory brain activity and social interaction in schizophrenia
Monday, 16 April, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
THE ADAPTABILITY TO THE OPPONENT'S GAME
People with schizophrenia show social disabilities that are related to functional outcomes. In this project we tested the hypothesis that social interaction ...
Game in the social structure of the bonobos
Monday, 16 April, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
THE PEACEFUL EVOLUTION OF OUR COUSINS
The primatologist Isabel Behncke spent almost a year in the Congo jungle to unravel how the great apes develop our social relationships ...
The Doctoral Program in Social Complexity Sciences has its first graduate
Tuesday, 10 April, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
Cristian Candia-Castro-Vallejo became the first Ph.D. of Social Complexity Sciences, a postgraduate degree awarded by the Faculty of Government of the Universidad del Desarrollo through its Center ...
NeuroCICS Team will be on the OBHM Annual Meeting, Singapur 2018
Monday, 26 March, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
On June 2018 the Annual Congress of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OBHM) will be held on Singapore, where a team from NeuroCICS will participate with ...
[CICS on tour] DCCS students participated in CompleNet 2018
Friday, 16 March, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
Cristián Candia, Víctor Landaeta and Ignacio Toledo, students of the first and second generation of the Doctorate, presented at the event that took place in Boston. There ...
Successful Research Camp DCCS finished with students as protagonists in open lectures
Thursday, 1 February, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
The work developed during this period covered topics such as immigration, art, trust and decision making from the perspective of neuroscience and social behavior.
Throughout January, students studying ...
The role of music in the formation of social structures
Friday, 26 January, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
Primatologist Isabel Behncke and Great Place to Rock co-founder, Hernán Rojas, launched the "Social Tech Lab", a joint initiative to deepen understanding of social technologies and the ...
Researchers award funds for projects in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and child welfare
Friday, 19 January, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
Two Fondecyt were granted to researchers associated with our Center: "Modulation of proactive cognitive control through prefrontal oscillatory training", led by Pablo Billeke, and "Jealousy as an ...
Science with Social Approach: The DCCS 2018 Research Camp began
Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 | Por pazsantandert
This complete month seeks that the students can work with complete dedication in the projects that they will develop individually, having available the orientation of the professors ...
The Ecosystems of Premodern Societies
Friday, 29 December, 2017 | Por pazsantandert
Social and geographical dynamics
In this paper, we present a spatial agent-based model of the emergence and proliferation of premodern complex societies in an isolated region initially inhabited ...
II Interdisciplinary Conference “Bases of Human Behavior 2017”
Friday, 6 October, 2017 | Por pazsantandert
The Center for Research in Social Complexity (CICS in spanish) of the Faculty of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo and the Laboratory of Animal and Human Behavior ...


