29 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 4 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.
1 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.
17 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).
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.
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.
