Jan Krátký
My research
I am research fellow at the Laboratory for the Experimental research of religion and HUME lab. I conduct experimental research both in laboratory and in the field. Key areas of interests comprise the role of materiality in cognition, ritual and religious behaviour; effects of contextual cues on prosocial behavior andrelation of anxiety and ritualistic behaviour.
Selected Publications
EJOVA, Anastasia; Oliver SHEEHAN; Remco BOUCKAERT; Simon J. GREENHILL; Jan KRÁTKÝ; Silvie KOTHEROVÁ; Jakub CIGÁN; Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ; Radek KUNDT; Joseph WATTS; Joseph BULBULIA; Quentin D. ATKINSON and Russell D. GRAY. Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2025, vol. 7, No 1, p. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10027.
Cigán, J., Krátký, J., Kundt, R., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., & Maňo, P. (2024). Ritual Explained?: Some Issues and Challenges for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Study of Rituals. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.25413
Miloš Fišar, Lubomír Cingl, Tommaso Reggiani, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Jan Krátký, Katarína Kostolanská, Petra Bencúrová, Marie Kudličková Pešková, Klára Marečková. (2023). Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 98
Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, & Dimitris Xygalatas. (2022). Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics. Scientific Reports, 12, 19240.
Anastasia Ejova, Jan Krátký, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Jakub
Cigán, Silvie Kotherová, Joseph Bulbulia & Russell David Gray. (2021). The awe-prosociality relationship: Evidence for the role of context. Religion, Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.1940254
Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, & Dimitris Xygalatas. (2020). The role of ritual behaviour in anxiety reduction: an investigation of Marathi religious practices in Mauritius. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1805), 20190431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0431
Dimitris Xygalatas, Sammyh Khan, Martin Lang, Radek Kundt, Eva Kundtová-Klocová, Jan Krátký, & John Shaver. (2019). Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being. Current Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1086/705665
Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, John Shaver, Danijela Jerotijević & Dimitris Xygalatas (2019). Is Ritual Behavior a Response to Anxiety? In: Slone, D. J., McCorkle Jr., W. W. The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 181-191
John H. Shaver, Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt & Dimitris Xygalatas (2018). The Boundaries of Trust: Cross-Religious and Cross-Ethnic Field Experiments in Mauritius. Evolutionary Psychology, 1-15. doi:10.1177/1474704918817644
Mcgraw, J. J., & Krátký, J. (2017). Ritual Ecology. Journal of Material Culture, 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517704881.
Krátký, J., Lang, M., Shaver, J. H., Jerotijević, D., & Xygalatas, D. (2016). Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine? Communicative & Integrative Biology, 889(June), 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2016.1174799
Krátký, J., McGraw, J. J., Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P., & Reddish, P. (2016). It Depends Who Is Watching You: 3-D Agent Cues Increase Fairness. Plos One, 11(2), e0148845. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148845
Lang, M., Krátký, J., Shaver, J. H., Jerotijević, D., & Xygalatas, D. (2015). Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior. Current Biology, 1–6. Retrieved from http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982215006521
Kotherová, S., & Krátký, J. (2014). Teorie vtělené a rozšířené kognice a její význam pro výzkum náboženství. Pantheon, 9(1), 188–215.
Krátký, Jan. (2013). Mezi lidmi a věcmi: Experimentální výzkum vlivu prostředí na prosociální jednání. Sociální studia, Brno: Katedra sociologie Fakulty sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity, roč. 10, č. 2, s. 45-61. ISSN 1214-813X.
Krátký, Jan. (2010). Biograficko-narativní paradigma výzkumu náboženské konverze. In Individualizace náboženství a identita. Poznámky k současné sociologii náboženství. 1. vyd. Praha: Malvern, 158-175, 18 s. ISBN 978-80-86702-69-8.
Krátký, Jan. (2009). Dual aspect of social knowledge: A case for religious alternation. Religio. Revue pro religionistiku, Brno: Česká společnost pro religionistiku, roč. 1/2009, č. 33, s. 75-94. ISSN 1210-3640.
Členství v oborových organizacích
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Česká společnost pro religionistiku
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International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Internet officer