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. The price also extends to the graduates’ mentors as a recognition of their important role in the success of LEVYNA’s Ph.D. students. David Václavík and Radek Kundt were awarded for mentoring Dan Řezníček, and Martin Lang for mentoring Radim Chvaja. Moreover, Dan’s dissertation also received the award of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts!
In his dissertation (and forthcoming publications!), Dan Řezníček investigated the transmission of intergroup aggression through prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals. On the other hand, Radim Chvaja proposed in his dissertaion a costly signaling theory of pilgrimage and investigated whether costly pilgrimages increase pilgrims‘ trustworthiness. Both dissertations are available on the respective links below:
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.
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.
