19 Sep 2023 Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct? Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.
17 Aug 2023 Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.
16 Aug 2023 New article on the ancient Roman imperial propaganda Tomáš Glomb (MUNI), Vojtěch Kaše (ZČU), and Viktor Zavřel (MUNI) have published their article "Iconographic Trends in Roman Imperial Coinage in the Context of Societal Changes in the Second and Third Centuries CE: A Small-Scale Test of the Affluence Hypothesis" in Open Archaeology.
7 Aug 2023 Costly signals induce more trustworthiness when used in religious settings like pilgrimages In an experimental study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Radim Chvaja, Martin Lang and colleagues show that religious *costly* signals are more effective in communicating trustworthiness to religious/secular receivers than secular signals.
3 Aug 2023 New paper about the evolution of human ritual Journal Religion, Brain, & Behavior published article authored by Martin Lang and Radek Kundt where they synthesize literature from several disciplines to identify possible reasons for the evolution of collective rituals. The authors argue that rituals evolved to facilitate cooperative communication.
27 Jul 2023 Právě vyšla kniha Aleše Chalupy Římský kult boha Mithry: Atlas lokalit a katalog nálezů I
3 Jul 2023 Dan Řezníček defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled The transmission of intergroup aggression: Prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals, he studied the factors and ways of spreading of intergroup aggression within groups during their mutual conflicts.
23 Jun 2023 A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.
TIP 1 Jun 2023 InkVisitor website launched The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.
19 May 2023 Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.
27 Apr 2023 CEDRR has a visiting researcher! Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.
17 Apr 2023 Funding for a registered report Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.
31 Mar 2023 Michal Puchovský defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, called Modern Pagan Music in the Czech Republic, he analysed the pagan elements in the work of selected bands from the Czech Republic that publicly admit to being inspired by Paganism.
31 Mar 2023 Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.
