23 Sep LEVYNA contributes to new book on evolution and culture LEVYNA researcher Radek Kundt is both editor and contributor to a new book published by Springer exploring the complex interplay between biology and culture.
28 Aug New paper: How do costly religious signals remain reliable? Religious practices can be costly in terms of time and effort, and these costs can make them useful signals of commitment to a religious community. But this creates a puzzle: if costly religious signals bring social benefits, why don’t less committed people simply imitate them and enjoy the benefits of cooperation?
1 Jun Two LEVYNA Team Members Receive Prestigious Awards We are delighted to share that two members of the LEVYNA team have recently received major awards recognizing their outstanding research.
21 May New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Cognitive computations underlying ritual performance and persistence In a new paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Martin Lang, Khatereh Borhani, Alexandra Ružičková, Eva Kundtová Klocová, and Radim Chvaja propose that ritual performance and persistence can be understood through reinforcement learning.
8 May New study examines how the war in Ukraine shaped religiosity beyond the conflict zone In a new study led by Radim Chvaja in cooperation with LEVYNA's Martin Lang, we examined how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected religiosity in neighbouring European societies.
30 Apr New paper in iScience explores when costly signals of commitment are reliable In a new paper published in iScience, the LEVYNA team examined whether reliable commitment signaling is driven primarily by intuitive processes or by deliberative cost-benefit reasoning.
22 Apr New study examines whether material security predicts belief in God later in life In a new study published in Evolutionary Human Sciences, and let by a LEVYNA researcher, we examine a central prediction of secularization theory: that greater material security should be associated with lower religiosity.
20 Jan Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity Recent article in journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, where LEVYNA members contributed data, asks whether religious denominations accumulate gradually or are generated in rapid bursts associated with specific historical events.
