The group was created in 2010 by doctors Mònika Jiménez Morales and José Fernández Cavia and has been growing ever since, enlarging its scope, the number of researchers, and the array of activities.

In 2017, Dr Emma Rodero set up the Media Psychology Lab within the group to conduct psychophysiological studies in communication and promote the Media Psychology discipline in Europe, Spain, and Catalonia.

Nowadays, the CAS research group is an interuniversity group,made up of staff from five different universities and national and international collaborators.