23 Jan 2020 A new research called “SACRIFICE” has been just launched It will examine how participation in costly rituals affects the willingness to sacrifice one’s resources during inter-group conflict.
23 Dec 2019 Our Ph.D. students received a grant from the Development Fund of Masaryk University They will use the money to create a new and innovative course in which they will focus on the evolution of human cooperation and the role that religion played in this process.
2 Oct 2019 Jan Horský won the second place in the student poster competition Jan was awarded at the conference PTNCE 2019 held in Prague with a large LEVYNA presence.
10 Sep 2019 Martin Lang is this year’s recipient of the IAPR’s Early Career Award Martin was awarded the prize at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR). On this occasion, he also delivered the invited lecture “Religions as complex adaptive systems: The evolutionary paths of religious beliefs and behaviors.”
2 Sep 2019 Do extreme religious rituals positively affect the wellbeing of ritual practitioners? An answer to this and related questions can be found in our new paper in Current Anthropology. In collaboration with our colleagues, we have investigated the Thaipusam Kavadi ritual in relation to its purported effect on psychophysiological wellbeing.
13 Aug 2019 How to integrate the sciences and humanities in the study of religion? Martin Lang and Radek Kundt provide their answer in a new piece published in the journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.
5 Jun 2019 GAMU-E Grant goes to LEVYNA Martin Lang and Jan Krátký succeeded in the call of the Grant Agency of Masaryk University with the project "The Entropy-Reduction Model of Ritualized Behavior".
22 May 2019 A prestigious award goes to Martin Lang Martin Lang has been awarded the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 in social sciences and humanities.
