The Department for Development annually announces a grant competition as part of the Development Fund. The aim is to support projects that, in some way, seek to innovate teaching.
This year, our doctoral team succeeded with a project aiming to create an innovative course “Religion and Morality”, in which students will have an opportunity to learn about the latest findings concerning the evolution of cooperation and the role that religion played in this process.
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.
