Department: PSICOLOGÍA

Area: Basic Psychology

Email: rfdelgad@ujaen.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis Significación motivacional de los estímulos de comida su implicación en la prevención integrada de los trastornos de la alimentación y la obesidad 2016. Supervised by Dr. Sonia Rodríguez Ruiz, Dr. María del Carmen Fernández Santaella.

Dr. Rafael Delgado-Rodríguez obtained his degree in Psychology from the University of Granada (UGR, Spain). He continued his master's and doctoral studies at the same university. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology in 2016 through a University Teaching Training Grant awarded by the Ministry of Education (Government of Spain). Subsequently, he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at UGR. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén (Spain). His research spans multiple areas. One of his main lines of work has focused on the altered emotional processing of relevant stimuli in eating-related disorders. Specifically, he has investigated subjective and psychophysiological responses to food- and body-related stimuli in women with eating disorders and food addiction. Within this field, his scientific interest has expanded to body dissatisfaction and its etiological factors, such as problematic social media use. Additionally, he has been developing a research line on the benefits of human-dog interaction. His work in this area examines how the presence of a dog—stigmatized or non-stigmatized—affects people's emotional responses to socially threatening contexts.