I am interested in the spread of aggressive behavior toward out-groups during intergroup conflict. I focus especially on the role of credibility enhancing displays (CREDs) and prestige bias. Using experimental economic games, I try to explain how parochially altruistic aggression against out-groups spreads among in-groups, a process religion may further facilitate.

My publications

van Mulukom, V., Turpin, H., Haimila, R., Purzycki, B. G., Bendixen, T., Kundtová Klocová, E., Řezníček, D., Coleman, T. J. III, Sevinç, K., Maraldi, E., Schjoedt, U., Rutjens, B. T., & Farias, M. (2022). What do nonreligious nonbelievers believe in? Secular worldviews around the world. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance online publication.

Řezníček, D. & Kundt, R. (2020). Violent CRED s toward out-groups increase trustworthiness: Preliminary experimental evidence. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 262-281. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340084

Chvaja, R. & Řezníček. D. (2019). An Integrative Framework of Commitment Displays in Religious Systems. Human Ethology, 34, 41-52. https://doi.org/ 10.22330/he/34/041-052

Řezníček, D. (2016). Islámský stát a popravy stětím: Diskurzivní analýza vybraných částí časopisu Dabiq. Sacra, 14(1), 7–27.