Archivo de Tags ‘social’

CICS UDD is awarded a Fondef to develop a platform that allows a better decision in Higher Education

Wednesday, 28 August, 2019 |
In 2019, 154,366 young people applied for the Sistema Único de Admisión ([SUA] single admission system) which includes 41 universities, and establishes a student selection system of ...


Two CICS researchers publish study related to Mozart’s master piece and complex social networks

Thursday, 20 June, 2019 |
[caption id="attachment_3514" align="alignleft" width="150" class="align-left align-left "] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[/caption] By the end of June, the book Evolution and Popular Narrative, edited by Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett ...


Oxford Researcher joins as CICS International Fellow

Wednesday, 4 January, 2017 |
Tamas David-Barret, researcher from the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group (SENRG) led by Robin Dunbar at Oxford, is incorporated as the latest International Fellow of the ...


CICS researchers participate in major international conferences on Neuroscience

Thursday, 8 December, 2016 |
The neuroscientists of the Social Complexity Research Center, Dr. Pablo Billeke and Dr. Francisco Zamorano, presented the results of their research at the annual congress of the ...


First session of Interdisciplinary Discussions: The Foundations of Human Behavior

Monday, 26 September, 2016 |
The Social Complexity Research Center (CICS) of the Government Faculty at Universidad del Desarrollo, together with the Complex Systems Institute of Valparaiso, will held their First Session of Interdisciplinary ...


The Underlying Social Dynamics of Paradigm Shifts

Wednesday, 18 November, 2015 |
C. Rodriguez-Sickert, D. Cosmelli, F. Claro and M.Fuentes. PLoS One. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0138172, 2015.   ABSTRACT We develop here a multi-agent model of the creation of knowledge (scientific progress or technological evolution) within a community of ...


CICS explores neuronal mechanisms of social interactions and publishes findings which can be used in rehabilitation therapy for patients with schizophrenia

Wednesday, 4 March, 2015 |
Dr. Pablo Billeke and Dr. Francisco Zamorano from the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of Universidad del Desarrollo (Sanitago, Chile), conducted the study along with researchers from ...


Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert will be speaking at the International Conference on Experimental Economics in Antigua, Guatemala

Thursday, 26 February, 2015 |
Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert is the co-director of CICS, and he will be speaking at the third annual Conference on Experimental Economics, which is organized by the Vernon Smith ...


José Luis Ulloa presented his work on the cerebral processes involved in the perception of visual contact and the expression of emotions

Friday, 5 September, 2014 |
This past Tuesday, José Luis Ulloa -phD in Neuroscience from the Pierre et Marie Currie University, Paris VI, France and current post-doctoral fellow at the Brain and ...


UDD’s Doctoral Program in Social Complexity Sciences has now begun

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 |
From over 120 applicants, five students were selected to begin Universidad del Desarrollo’s Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences, which started on August and will have a duration of four ...


Newsletter “Parametro” launches its sixth edition

Tuesday, 29 July, 2014 |
In the sixth edition of “Parametro” (the newsletter of  the Research Area of the School of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo) there are articles on the most important events ...


Social cognition in major depressive disorder: A new paradigm?

Friday, 10 January, 2014 |
Pablo Billeke, Samantha Boardman and P Murali Doraiswamy. Translational Neuroscience. 12/2013; 4(4):437-447. DOI:10.2478/s13380-013-0147-9. ABSTRACT Social cognition refers to the brain mechanisms by which we process social information about other ...


Meritocracy and Topocracy of Networks

Monday, 2 December, 2013 |
TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS, WHAT? In this project, a network market is studied mathematically, where individuals obtain resources from two channels: individual talent and intermediation benefits (by ...


CICS’s “Why do people cooperate? Lessons from experimental game-theory” Public Workshop

Monday, 5 August, 2013 |
CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE HERE In this workshop we will present two game-theoretic models of cooperation: the public good game and the common pool resource game. We will also ...