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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.

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.

1 May 2021

The journal Sacra has a new website

The Journal Sacra has a new website. Readers will find not only a new design and detailed information for authors but also news from the field of religious studies.

22 Dec 2020

Synchrony and group moral hypocrisy

Radim Chvaja, Radek Kundt, and Martin Lang published an article in Frontiers in Psychology.

18 Dec 2020

Anestis Karasaridis received IGA grant

Anestis Karasaridis has succeeded with his grant proposal “The Antonine Plague in Rome: Comparative Modeling of Different Pathogens” in the grant competition for doctoral students (IGA) organized by Masaryk University.