22 May 2019 A prestigious award goes to Martin Lang Martin Lang has been awarded the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 in social sciences and humanities.
13 May 2019 Radim Chvaja has been awarded the EHBEA’s Student Research Grant Our Ph.D. student Radim Chvaja has been awarded student grant from European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) that will enable him to study religious pilgrimage in Mauritius.
8 May 2019 A new theoretical article about the difference between the theory of costly signaling and CREDs with application on religious phenomena A new article has just been published in Human Ethology, in which our PhD students explain the relation between two theories of religious displays – the costly signaling theory and the credibility enhancing displays theory (CREDs).
4 Apr 2019 Website of the DISSINET Project We launch the website of the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET).
8 Mar 2019 New article testing the influence of moralizing gods on intragroup and intergroup cooperation Our new paper in which we test on cross-cultural sample whether beliefs in omniscient and punitive moralizing gods contribute to the scaling up of cooperative societies and whether they apply also beyond co-religionist circles as far as to religious outgroups has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
16 Feb 2019 New Publication on Identity Fusion Theory Our new paper in which dr. Ben Purzycki (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Lipsko) and Martin Lang are testing the identity fusion theory on a cross-cultural data set is out in Cognition.
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!
