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Altai Hypothesis

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prof. PhD. Jana Nechutová, CSc.
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We examined the traditional folk culture in Letovice

DISSINET

19 Sep 2023

Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct?

Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.

LEVYNA

17 Aug 2023

Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making

In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.

CEDRR

16 Aug 2023

New article on the ancient Roman imperial propaganda

Tomáš Glomb (MUNI), Vojtěch Kaše (ZČU), and Viktor Zavřel (MUNI) have published their article "Iconographic Trends in Roman Imperial Coinage in the Context of Societal Changes in the Second and Third Centuries CE: A Small-Scale Test of the Affluence Hypothesis" in Open Archaeology.

LEVYNA

7 Aug 2023

Costly signals induce more trustworthiness when used in religious settings like pilgrimages

In an experimental study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Radim Chvaja, Martin Lang and colleagues show that religious *costly* signals are more effective in communicating trustworthiness to religious/secular receivers than secular signals.