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20 Dec 2022

Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records?

ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.

9 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja published a chapter discussing the relationship between ritual and anxiety in The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion.

8 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, and Dimitris Xygalatas published a paper on ritualization and anxiety reduction in Scientific Reports.

7 Dec 2022

Rituals and moral norm objectivization

Radim Chvaja, Jan Horský, Martin Lang, and Radek Kundt published a study on ritual and objectivity of moral norms in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

5 Dec 2022

Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults

The book Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Tomáš Glomb has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

2 Dec 2022

Reapproaching inquisition records

David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.

20 Oct 2022

What do nonbelievers believe in?

In a paper published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Eva Kundtová Klocová and Dan Řezníček collaborated with an international research team lead by Valerie van Mulukom to study worldviews of nonbelievers.

18 Oct 2022

What motivates ritual participation?

In the journal Slovak Ethnology, Peter Maňo and Dimitris Xygalatas published an article focused on the motivations to partake in rituals.