Previous studies, primarily aimed at the university population in the US, suggested that atheism could be related to a so-called analytical cognitive style. According to a new intercultural analysis, carried in collaboration with LEVYNA, it turns out that this link does not apply as strongly as the US pattern suggested. On the contrary, the study suggests that it is not possible to fully explain the existence of atheism through individual differences in cognitive style, the influence of the cultural environment and socialization must be taken into account as it plays a key role. A link to the paper.
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.
