LEVYNA29 Jan 2020 Open post-doc position We are looking for a new colleague to join our lab for two years as a post-doc researcher with a specialization in economic games and behavioral experiments.
LEVYNA23 Jan 2020 A new research called “SACRIFICE” has been just launched It will examine how participation in costly rituals affects the willingness to sacrifice one’s resources during inter-group conflict.
DISSINET10 Jan 2020 Bibliography: 2,000 records The publicly available DISSINET bibliography in Zotero has reached 2,000 records.
LEVYNA23 Dec 2019 Our Ph.D. students received a grant from the Development Fund of Masaryk University They will use the money to create a new and innovative course in which they will focus on the evolution of human cooperation and the role that religion played in this process.
30 Nov 2019 New book by D. Zbíral David Zbíral has published a new book entitled Pokřtění ohněm: Katarské křesťanství ve světle pramenů (12.-14. století).
DISSINET18 Nov 2019 Map: Cathar houses, 1175–1244 New dataset and digital map of the “houses of heretics”.
LEVYNA2 Oct 2019 Jan Horský won the second place in the student poster competition Jan was awarded at the conference PTNCE 2019 held in Prague with a large LEVYNA presence.
LEVYNA10 Sep 2019 Martin Lang is this year’s recipient of the IAPR’s Early Career Award Martin was awarded the prize at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR). On this occasion, he also delivered the invited lecture “Religions as complex adaptive systems: The evolutionary paths of religious beliefs and behaviors.”
LEVYNA2 Sep 2019 Do extreme religious rituals positively affect the wellbeing of ritual practitioners? An answer to this and related questions can be found in our new paper in Current Anthropology. In collaboration with our colleagues, we have investigated the Thaipusam Kavadi ritual in relation to its purported effect on psychophysiological wellbeing.
DISSINET21 Aug 2019 Article: Mining multiple sources of historical data New DISSINET paper published in the Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association.
LEVYNA13 Aug 2019 How to integrate the sciences and humanities in the study of religion? Martin Lang and Radek Kundt provide their answer in a new piece published in the journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.
DISSINET17 Jun 2019 Map: Lollards, 1414–1522 The DISSINET team has recently been busy creating a digital map which shows the places of origin of Lollards based on their trial records.
LEVYNA5 Jun 2019 GAMU-E Grant goes to LEVYNA Martin Lang and Jan Krátký succeeded in the call of the Grant Agency of Masaryk University with the project "The Entropy-Reduction Model of Ritualized Behavior".
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.
LEVYNA13 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.
