DISSINET3 Oct 2022 Early Christian Baptisteries online The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of DISSINET project now available online.
LEVYNA29 Sep 2022 LEVYNA members became IACESR elects Within the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová was elected a secretary general and Martin Lang a member at large.
TIP 19 Sep 2022 Information for PhD students Information regarding the change to the new PhD study programme - course comparison table.
TIP DISSINET4 Aug 2022 Structured data vs. contextual complexity of texts: An unnecessary dilemma? David Zbíral and Robert Shaw briefly introduce the Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO), an approach to the human-controlled and data-driven transformation of texts to richly structured data, which was developed within DISSINET modelling of historical textual sources.
CEDRR1 Jul 2022 In the core of debate on affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in the ancient Mediterranean Vojtěch Kaše and Tomáš Glomb contributed to the discussion on the relationship between affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in Religion, Brain & Behavior through the commentary of the target article by Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse et al.
CEDRR17 Jun 2022 CEDRR members at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop in Bergen CEDRR members Aleš Chalupa and Tomáš Hampejs visited Tomáš Glomb at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop that he co-organized with Francesca Mazzilli, Eivind Seland, and The Connected Past initiative at the University of Bergen as part of his Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (June 7-8, 2022).
LEVYNA15 Jun 2022 Rituals signal mate quality Peter Maňo, Radek Kundt, and Eva Kundtová Klocová, together with Dimitris Xygalatas, published an article on rituals as signals of mate quality in the journal Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.
LEVYNA13 Jun 2022 Advertising cooperativeness In the journal Royal Society Open Science, Martin Lang, Radim Chvaja, and David Václavík, together with Benjamin G. Purzycki, and Rostislav Staněk, published an article on how costly signals communicate cooperative intentions.
LEVYNA7 Jun 2022 "Cognitive" science of religion? In the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová published a commentary on Claire White’s book An introduction to the cognitive science of religion.
LEVYNA14 Apr 2022 The Evolution of Religion and Morality Coedited by Martin Lang, Benjamin Purzycki, Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan, and featuring LEVYNA researchers, Religion, Brain & Behavior published a double issue reporting results of the second wave of The Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.
LEVYNA24 Mar 2022 Why do people perform rituals? Together with a colleague from University of Connecticut, Peter Maňo published an article on ritual exegesis of Mauritian Hindus in the journal Religion.
17 Dec 2021 Tereza Menšíková received the IGA grant The Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency will fund her project Challenging Marginalisation Online: The Case of Dalit Movement Network Through Blog and News Platforms.
LEVYNA17 Dec 2021 Jana Nenadalová received the IGA grant for a second time The Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency will fund her project Sensing the Darkness: Field research of Dark therapy.
CEDRR26 Nov 2021 New paper about the spread of the cult of Asclepius in the Roman Empire by Tomas Glomb Congratulation to Tomas Glomb, who is now situated at the University of Bergen as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, for his recently published paper! His case study affiliated with his Bergen ASCNET project focused on the correlation of physicians' inscriptions and the spatial distribution of Asclepius worship in the Roman Empire.
LEVYNA19 Oct 2021 How to measure ritual attendance accurately? Together with colleagues from Otago, Martin Lang published an article on the accuracy of methods for measuring ritual attendance in the PLoS ONE journal.
LEVYNA11 Oct 2021 Effects of seating arrangement on students‘ interaction Jakub Cigán, together with colleagues, published an article in The Journal for Experimental Education studying the effects of seating arrangement on students’ interactions.
LEVYNA23 Aug 2021 Ritual signaling and social hierarchy Together with international colleagues, LEVYNA researchers published an article studying differences in the types of ritual signaling in Evolution and Human Behavior.
LEVYNA18 Aug 2021 Commentaries on the book Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind Jakub Cigán and Martin Lang (together with Valerie van Mulukom) published commentaries on the new book by Robert N. McCauley and George Graham in the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
LEVYNA23 Jul 2021 Outgroup threat and group cohesion Martin Lang et al. published an article studying the effects of outgroup threat on intragroup cohesion in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
LEVYNA13 Jul 2021 Missing gods or data? In their new piece in Nature, Beheim et al. (including LEVYNA’s Martin Lang) discuss factors influencing our ability to detect the presence of beliefs in moralizing gods in past societies.
LEVYNA7 Jul 2021 Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of actions Peter Maňo, together with D. Xygalatas and G. Baranowski Pinto, published an article in Cognition.
LEVYNA1 Jul 2021 Awe and prosociality LEVYNA published an article on the influence of the awe emotion on prosocial behavior in Religion, Brain & Behavior.
1 May 2021 The journal Sacra has a new website The Journal Sacra has a new website. Readers will find not only a new design and detailed information for authors but also news from the field of religious studies.
LEVYNA22 Dec 2020 Synchrony and group moral hypocrisy Radim Chvaja, Radek Kundt, and Martin Lang published an article in Frontiers in Psychology.
CEDRR18 Dec 2020 Anestis Karasaridis received IGA grant Anestis Karasaridis has succeeded with his grant proposal “The Antonine Plague in Rome: Comparative Modeling of Different Pathogens” in the grant competition for doctoral students (IGA) organized by Masaryk University.
LEVYNA17 Dec 2020 Jana Nenadalová received IGA grant The Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency will fund her project Sensing spirits and other dangerous beings.
9 Dec 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr. Zbíral Dr. Zbíral has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant for a five-year research project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe”.
8 Oct 2020 Dr Zbíral awarded the Rector’s Prize Dr Zbíral has been awarded the 2020 Masaryk University Rector's Prize for an exceptional research outcome.
