DISSINET1 Dec DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.
CEDRR29 Nov Book chapter in the newly published The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia), Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University), and Jan Fousek (Aix-Marseille University) contributed to the new Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research with the chapter Networks and Religious Transformations.
LEVYNA21 Nov CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program! Martin Lang received the Czech National Foundation’s Junior Star grant with his project titled Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind.
LEVYNA14 Nov Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results The vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University has awarded two LEVYNA graduates - Dan Řezníček and Radim Chvaja with a price for excellent results during their Ph.D. studies.
9 Nov DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.
19 Sep 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.
LEVYNA17 Aug 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.
CEDRR16 Aug 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.
LEVYNA7 Aug 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.
3 Aug New paper about the evolution of human ritual Journal Religion, Brain, & Behavior published article authored by Martin Lang and Radek Kundt where they synthesize literature from several disciplines to identify possible reasons for the evolution of collective rituals. The authors argue that rituals evolved to facilitate cooperative communication.
LEVYNA3 Jul Dan Řezníček defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled The transmission of intergroup aggression: Prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals, he studied the factors and ways of spreading of intergroup aggression within groups during their mutual conflicts.
DISSINET23 Jun A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.
TIP DISSINET1 Jun InkVisitor website launched The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.
CEDRR19 May Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.
CEDRR27 Apr CEDRR has a visiting researcher! Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.
LEVYNA17 Apr Funding for a registered report Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.
31 Mar Michal Puchovský defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, called Modern Pagan Music in the Czech Republic, he analysed the pagan elements in the work of selected bands from the Czech Republic that publicly admit to being inspired by Paganism.
LEVYNA31 Mar Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.
LEVYNA30 Mar Jan Horský defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled “Wu-Tang Is for the Children”: The Cultural Transmission of Moral Norms Through Narrative, he studied the cultural transmission of moral norms, focusing on American rap music.
CEDRR14 Mar CEDRR is a new member of the Czech Association for Digital Humanities From now on, CEDRR is an active participant in the debate on the shape and form of Digital Humanities on a national level.
DISSINET20 Dec 2022 Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records? ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.
LEVYNA9 Dec 2022 Ritualization reduces anxiety Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja published a chapter discussing the relationship between ritual and anxiety in The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion.
LEVYNA8 Dec 2022 Ritualization reduces anxiety Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, and Dimitris Xygalatas published a paper on ritualization and anxiety reduction in Scientific Reports.
LEVYNA7 Dec 2022 Rituals and moral norm objectivization Radim Chvaja, Jan Horský, Martin Lang, and Radek Kundt published a study on ritual and objectivity of moral norms in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.
CEDRR5 Dec 2022 Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults The book Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Tomáš Glomb has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
CEDRR2 Dec 2022 Reapproaching inquisition records David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.
LEVYNA20 Oct 2022 What do nonbelievers believe in? In a paper published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Eva Kundtová Klocová and Dan Řezníček collaborated with an international research team lead by Valerie van Mulukom to study worldviews of nonbelievers.
LEVYNA18 Oct 2022 What motivates ritual participation? In the journal Slovak Ethnology, Peter Maňo and Dimitris Xygalatas published an article focused on the motivations to partake in rituals.
LEVYNA18 Oct 2022 LEVYNA has a new director Martin Lang took on the role of LEVYNA’s director after Radek Kundt.
LEVYNA13 Oct 2022 Rap music and moral norms Jan Horský published an article on the role of narrative art in the transmission of moral norms in the Journal of Cognition and Culture.
