16 Feb 2019 New Textbook of Cognitive Science of Religion LEVYNA has a chapter in a new Bloomsbury Press textbook in which we explain in depth our experiment on ritualized behavior and anxiety.
4 Jan 2019 New edited volume in honor of Armin W. Geertz LEVYNA has contributed two chapters to the new edited volume Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesispublished in honor of Armin W. Geertz.
19 Dec 2018 New publication on religious badges and interpersonal trust There is a new article in Evolutionary Psychology about the effects of religious badges on interpesonal trust that LEVYNA has collaborated on.
18 Dec 2018 Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual (OUP) Eva Kundtová Klocová has a chapter "Ritual and Embodied Cognition" (in collaboration with A. W. Geertz) in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual (OUP)
28 Nov 2018 Grant of Excellence awarded to Dr. Zbíral Dr. Zbíral has been awarded the prestigious EXPRO grant of the Czech Science Foundation.
19 Nov 2018 Eva Kundtová Klocová was awarded the Dean's Prize Eva Kundtová Klocová was awarded the Dean's Prize
8 Oct 2018 Is atheism associated with a specific way of thinking? Previous studies, primarily aimed at the university population in the US, suggested that atheism could be related to a so-called analytical cognitive style.
4 Oct 2018 Peter Maňo received John McGraw Award for Best Student Contribution at IACSR 2018 Peter Maňo received John McGraw Award for Best Student Contribution at IACSR 2018
27 Sep 2018 A Research expedition to the island of Mauritius In July 2018 team LEVYNA set out for its regular research expedition to the island of Mauritius, our primary field side. Together with other collaborators, we were collecting data for six different projects focused mainly on religious beliefs and behaviors.
21 May 2018 Jakub Cigán received an internal grant from Masaryk University. The grant will help Jakub with the preparation of a monograph reporting on his fieldwork among Czech Protestants where he combines classical ethnographic methods and signaling theories to understand the nature of religious conversion.
17 May 2018 Dr. Cigán was succesful in grant competition for book "Remembering and Displaying: Cognitive Science of Religious Conversion"
21 Mar 2018 Paper from GEHIR Project in PLOS One We are announcing with joy that computational history research paper analyzing ancient Ptolemaic cults of Isis and Serapis was published. Congratulation to the authors
8 Mar 2018 New research on costly rituals among university fraternities Have you ever heard about or actually underwent initiation rituals that are obligatory for membership in a college fraternity or sorority? You may be interested in a new study featuring LEVYNA!
