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1 Sep 2021

The new DISSINET team is up and running!

On 1 September 2021, the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe” (DISSINET, 2021-2026) officially gets underway! The team is now constituted. Who’s aboard?

23 Aug 2021

Ritual signaling and social hierarchy

Together with international colleagues, LEVYNA researchers published an article studying differences in the types of ritual signaling in Evolution and Human Behavior.

18 Aug 2021

Commentaries on the book Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind

Jakub Cigán and Martin Lang (together with Valerie van Mulukom) published commentaries on the new book by Robert N. McCauley and George Graham in the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.

15 Aug 2021

Model the source first! Towards source modelling and source criticism 2.0

The project of computational historiography needs not only to adopt the modelling for representing the target phenomena but also to achieve a complex representation of the textual sources and its interpretive layers. To do the latter, we have developed an approach that we call “source modelling”.

23 Jul 2021

Outgroup threat and group cohesion

Martin Lang et al. published an article studying the effects of outgroup threat on intragroup cohesion in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

13 Jul 2021

Missing gods or data?

In their new piece in Nature, Beheim et al. (including LEVYNA’s Martin Lang) discuss factors influencing our ability to detect the presence of beliefs in moralizing gods in past societies.

7 Jul 2021

Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of actions

Peter Maňo, together with D. Xygalatas and G. Baranowski Pinto, published an article in Cognition.

1 Jul 2021

Awe and prosociality

LEVYNA published an article on the influence of the awe emotion on prosocial behavior in Religion, Brain & Behavior.