Mgr. et Mgr. Eva Kundtová Klocová, Ph.D.
Head, HUME Lab - Experimental Humanities Laboratory
Eva Kundtová Klocová
I am interested in communication in religious rituals, use of ritual bodily postures and religious hierarchies.
In 2018 I was awarded the PhD at Masaryk University for a doctoral work in Religious Studies devoted to the communication role of the body in religious rituals. In my work, I focus both on the theoretical approaches to the subject of physicality in the religious ritual and on empirical research approaches focused on specific ritual bodily practices.
From 2015 I am in charge of the HUME Lab infrastructure management at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, where I provide support and coordination of research projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Publications
Saxler, F. M., Dorrough, A. R., Froehlich, L., Block, K., Croft, A., Meeussen, L., Olsson, M., Schmader, T., Schuster, C., Grootel, S. van, Laar, C. V., Atkinson, C., Benson-Greenwald, T., Birneanu, A., Cavojova, V., Cheryan, S., Chung, A. L. K., Danyliuk, I., Dar-Nimrod, I., … Martiny, S. E. (2024). Did Descriptive and Prescriptive Norms About Gender Equality at Home Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross-National Investigation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231219719
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
Kundtová Klocová, E. (2024). Appeasing the (minds of) gods. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 14(2), 214–216. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2178494
Kundtová Klocová, E. (2024). Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics of Individual Religiosity. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.24038
Kundtová Klocová, E. (2024). Mauricijský Thaipusam kavadi: Bolest a utrpení jako součást náboženského života. Dingir: religionistický časopis o současné náboženské scéně, 27(1), 22–24.
Olsson, M., Grootel, S. V., Block, K., Schuster, C., Meeussen, L., Laar, C. van, Schmader, T., Croft, A., Sun, M. S., Ainsaar, M., Aarntzen, L., Adamus, M., Anderson, J., Atkinson, C., Avicenna, M., Bąbel, P., Barth, M., Benson‐Greenwald, T. M., Maloku, E., … Martiny, S. E. (2023). Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries. Political Psychology, 44(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12880
Fišar, M., Cingl, L., Reggiani, T., Kundtová-Klocová, E., Kundt, R., Krátký, J., Kostolanská, K., Bencúrová, P., Pešková, M. K., & Marečková, K. (2023). Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 102656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2023.102656
Bendixen, T., Lightner, A. D., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Klocová, E. K., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A. K., … Purzycki, B. G. (2023). Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e18. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15
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. (2023). What do nonreligious nonbelievers believe in? Secular worldviews around the world. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance online publication.
Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., Maňo, P., Kundt, R. & Xygalatas, D. (2022). Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1-2), 116-131.
Adam Baimel, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Alex Bolyanatz, Emma Cohen, Carla Handley, Joseph Henrich, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Martin Lang, Carolyn Lesogorol, Sarah Mathew, Rita McNamara, Cristina Moya, Ara Norenzayan, Caitlyn D. Placek, Monserrat Soler, Thomas Vardy, Jonathan Weigel, Aiyana Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas & Benjamin Purzycki. (2022). Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1–2), 4–17.
Tom Vardy, Cristina Moya, Caitlyn D. Placek, Coren L. Apicella, Alexander Bolyanatz, Emma Cohen, Carla Handley, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Carolyn Lesorogol, Sarah Mathew, Sarah A. McNamara, Benjamin G. Purzycki, Montserrat Soler, Jonathan L. Weigel, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich, Martin Lang & Quentin D. Atkinson. (2022). The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1–2), 18–37.
Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Aiyana K. Willard, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Alexander Bolyanatz, Emma Cohen, Carla Handley, Joseph Henrich, Martin Lang, Carolyn Lesorogol, Sarah Mathew, Rita A. McNamara, Cristina Moya, Ara Norenzayan, Caitlyn Placek, Montserrat Soler, Tom Vardy, Jonathan Weigel, Dimitris Xygalatas & Cody T. Ross. (2022). The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1–2), 38–60.
Xygalatas, D., Maňo, P., Bahna, V., Kundtová Klocová, E., Kundt, R., Lang, M. & Shaver, J. H. (2021). Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Ejova, A., Krátký, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Kundt, R., Cigán, J., Kotherová, S., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R. D. (2021). The awe-prosociality relationship: Evidence for the role of context. Religion, Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.1940254
Gervais, W. M., van Elk, M., Xygalatas, D., McKay, R. T., Aveyard, M., Buchtel, E. E., Dar-Nimrod, Ilan, Kundtová Klocová, E., Ramsay, J. E., Riekki, T., Svedholm-Häkkinen, A. M., Bulbulia, J. (2018). Analytic atheism : A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? Judgment and Decision Making, 13(3), 268–274.
Xygalatas, D., Kotherová, S., Maňo, P. , Kundt, R., Cigán, J. Kundtová Klocová, E. & Lang, M. (2018). Big Gods in Small Places: The Random Allocation Game in Mauritius. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8/2, 243-261.
Gervais, W. M., Xygalatas, D., McKay, R. T., van Elk, M., Buchtel, E. E., Aveyard, M., Schiavone, S. R., Dar-Nimrod, I., Svedholm-Häkkinen, A. M., Riekki, T., Kundtová Klocová, E., Ramsay, J. E. & Bulbulia, J. (2017). Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0151.
Xygalatas, D., Kundtová Klocová, E., Cigán, J., Kundt, R., Maňo, P., Kotherová, S., Mitkidis, P., Wallot, S. E., & Kanovský, M. (2016). Location, location, location: Effects of cross-religious primes on prosocial behaviour. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 26/4, 304-319.
Kundtová Klocová, E. (2014). Experimentální přístup ve studiu náboženství: Podoby a využití experimentu v sociálněvědném výzkumu. Pantheon: religionistický časopis, roč. 9, č. 1, s. 71-92.