19 Aug 2020

(How) does religious priming work?

A new study, in which Martin Lang and Radek Kundt took part, was published in PLoS ONE.

13 Aug 2020

Why did memetics fail?

Radim Chvaja published an article in the Perspectives on Science, The MIT Press.

29 Jun 2020

Does ritual behavior decrease anxiety?

A new publication by Martin Lang, Jan Krátký and Dimitris Xygalatas in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

3 Apr 2020

New paper about Ptolemaic political activities in PloS ONE

Congratulation for a new study in PLoS ONE  to Tomáš Glomb, Adam Mertel, Zdeněk Pospíšil and Aleš Chalupa.

Conference "Resistance to Order and Authority in Religion" in Budapest

UPDATED  5/20. On behalf of all organizers from Masaryk University (Department for the Study of Religions), Eötvös Loránd University (Centre for the Study of Religion) and Central European University (Center for Religious Studies) we are pleased to invite you to the forthcoming fourth annual international doctoral conference in Religious Studies, to be held 15 - 17 October 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.

29 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.

23 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.

23 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).

2 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.

10 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.”

2 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.