The purpose of the Early Career Award is to praise young researchers working in the field of psychology of religion.
Martin was selected based on his research of ritualized behavior. He accepted the award during the IAPR conference in Gdaňsk and on this occasion, he also delivered the lecture „Religions as complex adaptive systems: The evolutionary paths of religious beliefs and behaviors.“
In a paper published in Religion, Brain & Behavior, J. Nenadalová & D. Řezníček demonstrated that some study participants in a sensory-deprived laboratory environment sensed the presence of another person. This feeling was mostly associated with perceived uncertainty and only somewhat associated with psychological dispositions.
In a cross-national investigation published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, F. M. Saxler with LEVYNA’s E. Kundtová Klocová and other colleagues show that the COVID-19 pandemic affected young people’s normative beliefs about unpaid domestic work; and that this effect is stronger in countries with greater gender inequality.
