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:
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.
