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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.

13 May 2019

Radim Chvaja has been awarded the EHBEA’s Student Research Grant

Our Ph.D. student Radim Chvaja has been awarded student grant from European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) that will enable him to study religious pilgrimage in Mauritius.

8 May 2019

A new theoretical article about the difference between the theory of costly signaling and CREDs with application on religious phenomena

A new article has just been published in Human Ethology, in which our PhD students explain the relation between two theories of religious displays – the costly signaling theory and the credibility enhancing displays theory (CREDs).