researcher at LEVYNA & research coordinator at HUME Lab at Masaryk University
evo and cog approaches to religion and rituals
Eva Kundtová Klocová
Another great conference @ces2026.bsky.social! Thank you to all the organizers to making it possible!
How does religious conflict reshape moral cognition across cultures?
We're hiring a postdoc to help answer that question using computational modeling (DDM, RL) across 20 countries.
www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a...
#Postdoc #CognitiveScience #ComputationalModeling #MoralPsychology
IACESR 2026 – 10th Biennial Meeting
We’re excited to announce our keynote speakers:
Will Gervais • Rebekah Richert • Quentin Atkinson • Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
📍 Brno, Czech Republic
📅 1–3 July 2026 | Masaryk University
Registration open soon. Stay tuned.
#IACESR2026 #CognitiveScienceOfReligion
🏆 John J. McGraw Award – IACESR 2026
We are delighted to announce this year’s awardees:
🎓Carmen María Callizo Romero — Religiosity, Not Size, Predicts Abstract Cognition in Sacred Spaces
🎓 Radim Chvaja — Is God Perceived as More Moralizing During War? Evidence from Ukraine
#IACESR2026
Congratulations, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social!
We are looking forward to everyone coming to Brno in July! Your timely registrations will help us prepare properly!
This paper is part of a broader project on signaler psychology — exploring the cognitive computations behind human cooperative communication.
🔗 Project page: www.levyna.cz/en/research/...
We expand costly signalling theory (of religion) from the participants’ perspective, showing that what drives ritual commitment isn’t just how people judge the costs, but how they perceive the benefits—including supernatural ones.
In our new paper, we aim to reconcile individual and group motivations for ritual performance and persistence through reinforcement learning.
There are illustrations in the paper. I got to draw them! See Martin's post for deeper explanation and also for the link to free copies of the article!
Eva Kundtová Klocová
Our (with Pushkar Puryag, Radek Kundt & @martinlangcz.bsky.social ) study on the perceived costs & benefits of the Kavadi ritual in Mauritius was recently published in EHS.
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
