Martin Lang is this year’s recipient of the IAPR’s Early Career Award

The purpose of the Early Career Award is to praise young researchers working in the field of psychology of religion.

10 Sep 2019

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.“

Link: https://poland2019.iaprweb.org/iapr-2019-award-and-grants/?fbclid=IwAR3QkN_t3t9jJ9WARAsJ41sUdoEKP2w8L_a7026wm6RyphYutkCZDW1l6Ds

21 Nov

CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program!

Martin Lang received the Czech National Foundation’s Junior Star grant with his project titled Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind.
14 Nov

Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results

The vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University has awarded two LEVYNA graduates - Dan Řezníček and Radim Chvaja with a price for excellent results during their Ph.D. studies.
17 Aug

Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making

In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.
7 Aug

Costly signals induce more trustworthiness when used in religious settings like pilgrimages

In an experimental study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Radim Chvaja, Martin Lang and colleagues show that religious *costly* signals are more effective in communicating trustworthiness to religious/secular receivers than secular signals.

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Martin Lang is this year’s recipient of the IAPR’s Early Career Award

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CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program!

Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results

Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making

Costly signals induce more trustworthiness when used in religious settings like pilgrimages