15 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.
13 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.
7 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.
14 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.
24 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.
1 Jan 2022 The DISSINET team is now complete! We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)
23 Dec 2021 Modelling German Waldensians’ social networks – thoughts of an associate researcher BLOG: Reima Välimäki short report on researching Stettin Waldensians social networks and about his experience with the DISSINET data model.
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.
17 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.
26 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.
19 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.
11 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.
1 Sep 2021 The new DISSINET team is up and running! On 1 September 2021, the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe” (DISSINET, 2021-2026) officially gets underway! The team is now constituted. Who’s aboard?
23 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.
18 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.
