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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

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.